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| - Tokyo buffet is the real deal. A wide variety of sushi, sashimi, and hot japanese, and chinese dishes, plus a teppanyaki grill. Weekday lunch is the cheapest, weekend dinner is the most expensive, but even if you're cheap by nature, try to spend the extra and go on a weekend evening if you want the best variety and freshest sushi (you DO). Weekday lunch is good and a good value, but no sashimi, and overall only about half as many dishes and types of sushi out.
If you want to live it up Japanese style, start with a hot Sake, a plate of sashimi on a bed of seaweed salad, and a shrimp cocktail, before getting started on the sushi, and take your time!
They will make sushi to order for you, but most things you'd probably ask for are freshly made and already there for the taking, even hand rolls!. There are often treasures like roast duck and frogs legs on the hot buffet, and some wonderful soups that the less savvy patrons might miss. I always have a bowl of the clam soup which is a delicious clear broth chock full of small clams, and threads of ginger. They have ice cream and desserts, but they never interest me much. There are also lighter dessert choices like pineapple chunks, watermellon lychee nuts, and tamago sushi.
Honestly I've taken my snooty foodie friends from NYC here and they too loved it.
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