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| - A buffet this place is not. A place for average Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Thai food, it is.
A salad/soup/ice cream bar towards the entrance provides something that's been sitting around for a while to tide the short period of time before items ordered off an order card arrive. Soups: seafood tom yum might as well have been called plain tom yum, flavour was right but came with a layer of oil that coated the bowl. Corn soup was a thick yellow mess. Salads were OK but devoid of lettuce-based goodness. A big plate of crab legs appeared here without explanation.
Items arrive in no specific order, nor do they all necessarily arrive. Sushi and sashimi, despite the fact that the latter is usually the first item to arrive off the order cards while only available at dinner, are below average and the fish is frequently cold (legalities require that fish is frozen once before serving raw, but is usually fully defrosted, unlike here). Sashimi served on chips is just odd: the chips are salted and don't work with the supposedly delicate fish.
Cooked items are mostly average, some better than others, portions are inconsistently sized and sauces either unnecessarily thick or water thin.
All items show up on plates that are far too large and fill up a small table quickly, often making the diner feel as though they're not eating quickly enough for some plates to be removed before they are replaced. Service is warm and welcoming for an AYCE, although I felt treated as though the food and experience was completely foreign to me, despite the opposite being true.
My dining buddy was a little sick shortly after, further reducing my rating of this place. At $23-24 per, a price that we saw nowhere after entering the place, for Sunday dinner, we were disappointed.
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