Attack of the Wastefully Large Restaurants

Behold the Meatpacking District's forthcoming Buddakan, a 16,000-square-foot exercise in Pan-Asian absurdity. Have you ever seen anything so large, so tacky, so retardedly leviathan? Space is at a premium in Manhattan, and we get a medieval wedding hall. Isn't about time we torched 9th Avenue?
Buddakazam! Kalina Gets Inside [Eater]
Food Buzz [Bloomberg]
Yelping Warriors, and Rocks in the Broth [NYT]