In Dubai, the expats have a regular Friday activity - "Drunch" - to celebrate the first day of the weekend (weekends here are Friday and Saturday versus the West's Saturday and Sunday). An enhanced version of a traditional buffet, a Drunch is an afternoon of all you can eat...and all you can drink!
The food buffet is enormous. Most hotels host food stations across their multiple restaurants and people can then wander to each of the restaurants and eat every type of food imaginable. Along the way, the hotels have multiple drink stations to supplement the free flowing champagne which is served directly at your table.
Meeting some friends, we headed to the "hotel with the horses" and caught its canal boat to the hotel restaurant where our table was located. Seeing the overwhelming spreads, we were almost happy to be vegetarians (with far fewer options available) and have meetings later that afternoon which kept us on the straight and narrow. A cultural experience is not quite the same if you are too annihilated to actually remember it the next day!
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