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| - We decided to try out this place on valentines day. This cozy, as in you can hear your neighbour's conversation, tight place has great ambience and surprisingly could accommodate our toddler as they have high chairs.
We opted for the all you can eat menu, which although vast, lacked certain things in terms of premium items such as octopus, squid, salmon roe to name a few. It did however have some redeeming items such as beef tenderloin, grilled beef ribs, and sirloin teriyaki for the meat lovers.
We ordered the avocado salad (iceberg lettuce topped with 3 small slices of avocado doused in a weak vinegrette), the mango salad (house greens topped with sparse slices of unripened mango doused with a diluted sour dressing), the seaweed salad (decent), kimchi (decent), and Miso soup (sub par).
The udon seafood noodle soup was ok for an all you can eat. The veggie and shrimp tempura were good however the shrimp was over battered for my taste. We ordered the popcorn chicken which was tasty and the chicken wings which were covered in the same batter as popcorn chicken. The beef tenderloin was very good. The sirloin, grilled salmon belly, and beef ribs were ok.
We also ordered the spider roll which was good, the volcano roll which was a California roll with the imitation crab doused in sauce and shredded overtop (ok but not great), and the black dragon roll (good but not memorable). The sashimi was very good and fresh though limited in selection. We ordered the salmon, white tuna, surf clam. We also ordered the shrimp and eel sushi which were both very good.
Dessert was good. They have a variety of ice cream to choose from (green tea, red bean, vanilla, mango, coconut), deep fried banana (amazing), and deep fried ice cream (we didn't try).
Service was excellent. Although the place was jammed, they did their best to bring us all our food and take repeat orders, as well as fill up our waters. They only forgot one item (beef wrapped enoki mushrooms).
The bill was $60 for two and a child under 3 ($2 for the child). There was not that much for our toddler to eat but we managed to feed him beef, salmon, avocado, noodles, squash, zucchini and chicken. There were however no fruits for him since the mango was a bit hard.
Overall, it was ok for an AYCE. Regular price is $23.50 but they charge an extra $3 for weekends and holidays. There are extra items available for weekends and holidays on the menu, but they were nothing unusual. Rosette salmon rolls, mango salad, spicy tuna and salmon rolls, sweet/sour chicken and BBQ buns. Although they have a large menu, a lot of the items were the same ingredients but in a different format.
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