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For those that are unfamiliar, this type of restaurant has you cook your own food on a small gas grill positioned in the middle of each table. If you want the "all you can eat" option, everyone at the table has to get it, so that there is no sharing if food that you didn't order. If you get that AYCE option, they give you a small slip of paper on which to select the items you want to order; similar to the way many sushi restaurants do.
There were 4 adults, 1 teenager and 1 infant. Our server must have been under the impression that we came for the experience. He learned very quickly that we came for the food! We had just finished a day at Caribana at which we had walked no less than 6 miles. We heard that the place was AYCE and we came to eat all we could! Mission accomplished!
I told our server that we had never done this before, and asked for advice on how to "do this". He said that it was fine and we could do it any way we wanted. Big mistake! You can't tell a bunch of black people from South Carolina to do whatever they want because they will move into your house after that!
We started rather modestly; each person ordering 1-2 items. The trouble with that was that the portions are Asian-sized, but none of us are Asian. We began to drop our pieces of meat onto the grill and we even asked for reassurance. "Are we doing this right?". The server smiled and nodded and told us we were fine. That little bit of food was gone in no time. Lesson learned. On to round two...
We ordered a bit more this time and started to establish which items were our favorites. We still had empty trays on the table from the first round and the table was becoming a bit congested. My buddy knocked over his cup of water. The server came over with a towel and apologized with vehement enthusiasm. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." We found it quite amusing that he was apologizing for our screw up. Only in Canada!
At this point, we've got a nice spread of food going and the meats were seasoned to perfection. If you don't like your food at a place like this, who can you blame? You cooked it!
The kimchi was deeeeeelicuous, though I could have taken it with a bit more spice. We had beef, lamb, chicken, squid, pork...all flavorful and tender. Our server turned the heat down on one of our grills, which at the time seemed to be for our benefit. The grill had started to burn a bit and the food was now cooking more slowly. By round 5, it appeared that this was his tactic to slow us down a bit so that we would fill up.
By round 7, they had switched servers in us and they stopped checking on us altogether. We had to call them to get our drinks refilled, and they were probably afraid to come over in fear that we would order more food. The last couple orders had food left off and even food on it that we didn't request. By the end of it, we had tried everything; except the tofu.
The service wasn't great, but they remained polite and professional though they were often inattentive. The food was excellent. The experience was really cool. If you're into new experiences, you've gotta try it. Just don't be surprised if they've changed the AYCE rules since we left. It May now be AYCE with a 6 plate max!
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