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| - I ate here with my mom for the lunch buffet. I don't know if dinner is different so I'll let other reviewers grapple that beast.
When I walked into the building, I thought to myself "Wow, this place is huge. There must be a really good selection." WRONG. It's 3 bars of salads, fruit and dessert with only 2 bars of actual food (not including the hibachi and sushi station). One bar is your standard Americanized Asian buffet food - chicken wings, the little flaky bread warpped around beef, etc... The other bar was more Asian food, but there wasn't anything special about it. It was just your standard take-out Asian food.
The hibachi station was a little different than Gastonia's used to. I guess you could call it hibachi. It reminded me more of Mongolian grilling. You chose what veggies and meats you wanted to be cooked and placed it on a plate for the cooks to fry it up for you. You could choose to put an egg, lo mein noodles or rice in it as well. You're given a choice of hibachi or teriyaki sauce. Disclaimer: All the sauces taste the same to me so I just chose hibachi. The finished product was decent. It was better than the food at the hot bar, but not something that really stood out overall.
Buffet sushi is buffet sushi. Period.
The service was good. The waitress came by to check on you every now and then and to refill your water. I don't fault the staff for what Will B. said about the service. They're new. They're just feeling it out. I used to wait tables over the summer when I came back from college. I know how it is, so I'll be lenient about it. The food, though, isn't something that really stood out. I wouldn't be against going if my friends really wanted to eat there, but I wouldn't go back just for the sake of going back.
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