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| - Sorry Yoko, I see the potential but I just simply didn't enjoy my dinner here. The food wasn't bad but when things on the menu aren't what they seem, we have a bit of a problem here.
I heard the special rolls were good here, so we went and ordered 5 of them - spider and dynamite which was part of a combo plate, Chicago, Yoko special, and the spicy scallop roll. We have done this at many other restaurants and have enjoyed doing this as some of us really like the rolls. At most places special rolls are different but Yoko's special rolls are all identical, with tempura yam, avocado, cucumber, tobiko being present in all the rolls we ordered minus the spicy scallop.
The rolls itself were actually pretty good, there isn't too much rice, and the shrimp tempura, soft-shell crab and the yam tempuras were all nice and crispy. But I must say that the biggest problem here at Yoko, was that all those rolls were absolutely drenched with a sweet soy-based sauce, making the rolls slightly soggy and masking the flavour and textures of the rolls. For example, the chicago, Yoko, and spider rolls were only distinguished by the shrimp tempura, unagi, and the soft-shell crab respectively, but there was no way you could tell the difference when all you could taste was the sweetness of the sauce (which was made even worse by the fact that the yam is also very very prominent and sweet. It would be nice to have a creamy mayo based sauce instead. The spicy scallop roll also failed to impress as it was mostly bread crumbs. But full marks for actually making a roll where there was a bit of kick to it!
We told the staff the sauce was overwhelming and the rolls were way too similar to each other but was told that customers wanted more sauce and that if they didn't want sauce to indicate when ordering, but there was no way to know this beforehand. The lady that took our order did tell us that the rolls would taste similar but I didn't expect that four of the five of the rolls would turn up identical from each other. I should note that the Chicago and Yoko special rolls didn't end up looking anything like pictures on the menu.
I'm really disappointed overall in Yoko but if you do end up coming here, ask them to lay off on the sauce and I think you'll have a lot better experience than I did.
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