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We’ve blogged about the Pacific Chinese restaurant before. Another favourite is the Pacific Thai buffet. It’s on the floor above the Chinese restaurant and you enter through the same door. Once shown to your table, you’re pretty much left to your own devices in the usual buffet style - go to the collection of food, pick up a plate or bowl, load it up and tuck in!

There are a few distinct collections of food on offer. The first table has soups, noodles and various additions to the soup - chilli oil and the like. The next is the main course selection, which has been different every time we’ve been there. Today highlights included a green vegetable curry, a red chicken curry and farmhouse duck. Phil’s a particular fan of red curry and had at least 3 plates on this visit! There’s a table with various dim sum to be chosen from, along with bowls of sauces to have with these; sweet and sour, sweet chilli and the rest of the usual suspects.

At the next table is a chef waiting to make spring rolls to order. She usually has a few standard ones prepared but if there are certain ingredients that aren’t to your liking, she will be more than happy to make a roll just for you. The spring rolls are very refreshing and Olly counts them as a favourite, consuming an incredible 9 on this visit!

I haven’t visited the Thai buffet in the evenings, but if you’re in Manchester and fancy a variety of oriental food for £6.95 at lunchtime, you can’t go too far wrong with the Pacific Thai buffet.

Today during our lunch at a local restaurant we discussed a spectrum of issues surrounding the environmental effects of modern living. Whilst eating lamb burgers and curly fries we put forward solutions to all things wrong with the world. Here are some of the issues covered:-

PROBLEM: Fossil fuels.

SOLUTION(s):
Self powered houses harnessing solar power, the roof could be covered in solar panels for example, and wind energy. Hydrogen powered cars expelling drinkable water as a bi-product. Nuclear power stations increasing the available electricity without any immediate issues. Wind turbines in favourable locations such as out at sea or my back garden.

In short we came up with the most unoriginal answers that were all flawed either by the nuclear waste that our descendants will have to clean up, the eco-volatile power used to create fuel for Hydrogen cars, wind turbines only working when its windy and are considered a nuisance by some and the fact that not all people want to alter their houses for the greater good.

PROBLEM: Litter and general household waste.

SOLUTION(s):
Recycling was the favourite solution. But I fear that this too is flawed, how do you define recycling? Is it shipped somewhere else and dumped? Is it too costly to recycle products? Is the power used during recycling eco-friendly?

We hit many barriers to 34SP.com saving the world, and so ate food instead.

We would be interested in hearing any environmental problems and potential solutions from you, our customers. Feel free to comment away!