In celebration of the holidays and this week’s theme of ‘gluttony’.  Here are some places that I have trouble resisting the urge to over indulge…

1. Korean BBQ:  Korean bbq is dangerous.  There is a kind of conveyor belt urgency that develops when high grade kobe and kalbi risks being being overcooked on the grill and suddenly one is compelled to consume a slice every five seconds.  Before you know it, you’ve cleaned up that plate of raw meat and busting a mean gut.

2. Sushi Omakase: Anytime you leave it up to the chef’s specials and your whims, your palate is likely to take over your stomach and pocketbook.  The delicate presentations and the fact that it’s raw (as opposed to deep fried), lends a false sense of security.  You think you’re eating light and restrained, but once the check arrives you realize you just spent your rent money on fish – but oh what exquisite fish it is.

3. Buffet:  Whether it’s the Straits Cafe at the Hyatt in Singapore with its bevy of Asian food stations to any breakfast buffet that gives me multiple permutations of sweet and savory, I am consistently a sucker for trying everything at the buffet. I don’t believe in heaven, but I suspect that if that was indeed the last stop for some of us lucky ones – every meal would be a buffet.

4. Candy shops:  Maybe it’s watching too much Willy Wonka as a kid but the orgy of color, sugar, and childhood nostalgia turns me into back into that five year old digging for sour patch kids, swedish fish, and those jawbreakers that are sure to make my dentist a rich man.

What turns you into a foaming at the mouth, glutton?