The leaning tower… of Pizza Hut’s salad bar: Diner devises 3ft pile to get round rules at local restaurant

January 9th, 2012

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Colin Fernandez

Last updated at 12:39 AM on 9th January 2012

It’s a conundrum that’s long challenged gluttons and hard-up students.

But now a scientist claims he has worked out how to truly make the most of a buffet bar – by piling food into a 3ft-high tower.

Unfortunately, while it allows you to eat vast quantities, the results don’t exactly look appetising.

How to construct your salad tower

Shen Hongrui, a Chinese engineer, advises hungry diners to build strong ‘walls’ with cucumber and carrots, creating a tall container on their plate to fill with their favourite foods.

He devised the set of instructions to get around the ‘one bowl, one visit’ rule at the salad bar in his local Pizza Hut in Beijing.

First, he tells diners to build a solid base, ideally with chickpeas and potatoes. ‘The foundations are very important, so choose dry and strong material,’ he says.

Next, would-be gluttons must create a layer of carrot sticks radiating from the centre to act as a scaffold.

Banned: Pizza Huts in China have put a stop to the craze by removing all the salad bars in restaurants

Then they should use slices of cucumber or blocks of fruit as bricks to build the tower’s ‘walls’.

Finally, fill the tower with the food you are most keen on eating. All you need after that is a steady hand to carry your heaving platter back to the table.

Salad bar: £4.99 a plate

The art of piling food high on one’s plate has become known as ‘salad bar hacking’, inspiring websites with galleries devoted to towering piles of food.

But Mr Hongrui’s method ended up backfiring – it became so popular that Pizza Hut scrapped all its salad bars in China.

The towering piles of cucumber – too much for a single person to eat – seem likely to end up in the bin and are likely to horrify campaigners against food waste.

Last year, 60 per cent of all food thrown away could have been eaten, according to a recent study – around 7.2million tons a year. The figure is down around 13 per cent on the previous year – possibly because of the economic downturn.

Other scientists have also been fascinated by salad bars.

Brian Wansink and colleagues at the Food and Brand Laboratory at Cornell University noticed that people with a high body mass index (BMI) – a measure of obesity – sit on average 16ft closer to a buffet than those with an average BMI.

They also found that 71 per cent of overweight people sit facing the food, compared to around 26 per cent of people of average weight.

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He got idea from the Great Wall.

– Thomas, Newton, 09/1/2012 05:37

sure……I can definitely see that one being carried back to the table…..sheesh slow news monday……………….

– ray, Somewhere a little cooler but still nice, 09/1/2012 05:21

The Leaning Tower of Pizza — very good. You could also take a very tall piece of sponge cake, cover it with custard and dessicated coconut, and call it the Trifle Tower.
Or maybe not – – –

– peejay, Helston, England, 09/1/2012 05:04

I have only once ever been to an all you can eat buffet (an indian) and sadly over did it, even though at the time I thought I hadn’t, later in the afternoon I felt as if I needed a wheelbarrow to transport my guts in, must have been the beer, never again!

– richard, worcester u.k., 09/1/2012 04:54

You’ve got to admire his ingenuity, but who on earth would want to eat that much salad?

– Andrew, Manchester , 09/1/2012 04:27

All you can eat buffets should be avoided at all costs.I visited the local Chinese one once and it was full of a shameless rabble.A woman was changing her baby on the table,people were eating themselves sick.Revolting places.

– M4rkyboy, Falkirk Scotland, 09/1/2012 03:40

Yep and if you go to see chinese eat, they grab all the expensive stuff ,then play with it on their plate before finally discarding most of is as waste.
There used to be a time in China when all plates were cleared after a meal, now it is just a gluttons paradise with masses of waste food.

– bob, china, 09/1/2012 03:15

pizza hut always made their plates too small for this measly salad offer anyway .

– Lou, uk, 09/1/2012 02:29

Reading glasses Len, reading glasses

– Jes , Perth, Western Australia, 09/1/2012 02:08

There is a much simpler method used at buffets in SE Asia, some simply lay a ring of bread sticks to double the size of the plate and then happily pile it up.

– Phil Medway, Singapore, 09/1/2012 02:01

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