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A group of diners at an all you can eat buffet have been criticised for shovelling huge piles of food onto their plates - then leaving much of it uneaten.

A video showing the greedy customers frantically stockpiling vast quantities of shrimp onto stacks of plates has been widely shared on social media.

The feeding frenzy was captured at a hotel buffet in Thailand and said to be carried out by a group of Chinese tourists.

People are seen clambering over each other and eschewing tongs in favour of plates, which they use to scoop up as much seafood as humanly possible.

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One woman can be seen stacking at least three plates full of prawns onto one another.

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Pictures later appeared on Twitter apparently showing huge piles of the food left untouched.

People's China Daily posted the images with the words: "What a waste."

One Twitter user described the video as "shameful".

According to Shanghaiist , some commentators have suggested the behaviour is due to the exorbitant price of shrimp, with one customer in Qingdao in China recently being charged 2,700 yuan (£288) for a plate of the crustaceans.