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| - The Japanese buffet located inside the las vegas outlets is definitely a good bargain. I came here for lunch upon arriving in Vegas, and was starving with a big appetite. I immediately went straight to the sushi bar. They have a large selection of rolls; most are filled with crab meat, eel, avocado, or spicy tuna. The rolls were pretty good, but I felt like out of the 20 different varieties of rolls, they only used like 5 different ingredients plus a mixture of various sauces. What I didn't like was the imitation crab meat they used in the rolls, it just tasted so fake and Americanized, I wish they would use real crab meat. The sushi selection of raw fish was limited, the scallop sushi was fresh and tasted excellent, the salmon was also pretty good, and the eel sushi wasn't bad. However, the rest of the sushi wasn't spectacular; they only had like 10 different varieties of sushi, which was a tad disappointing. Nonetheless, I enjoyed the sushi rice they used for the rolls and sushi. A lot, and I do mean a lot, of all-you-can-eat sushi places, lik Todai for example, serve crappy mushy rice...which makes the sushi just taste awful! At Makino they use pretty good quality sushi rice, and I was quite surprised, it just makes the sushi taste so much better!
The shrimp and vegetable tempura wasn't bad, and they also have Udon noodles which tasted pretty good. They didn't have a whole lot of hot entrees, I tried the beef sukiyaki, which was okay, the friend chicken wasn't bad. I was surprised that I didn't see beef teriyaki; they only had chicken teriyaki...Maybe they serve that for dinner. I wasnt all that impressed with the hot entrees, there just wasn't a whole lot of variety, the food tasted ok and better than most ayce buffets. The dessert bar was disappointing; most of the dessert just didn't appeal to me, and didn't taste good! Even the ice cream was disappointing, how could they go wrong with green tea ice cream!? Well I think they make their own ice cream, so the ice cream was just bland with no green tea flavor at all, very disappointing. They had a decent amount of fresh fruit selections, which I liked and most where sweet! They also have a chocolate fountain where you can dip your strawberries or other fruits in...great idea, bad execution! The chocolate was a tad watery and didn't "solidify" even after letting it settle for 5 minutes.
Overall this place is a bargain for a all-you-can-eat Japanese buffet, the lunch price is $17 for weekends, but be careful because drinks cost extra! It's $2 for drinks...which I found odd, since most buffets offer free beverage. So if you don't intend on drinking a beverage, opt for water and fill your stomach with extra food! The sushi selection could have been better, but they use fresh ingredients and the rice was excellent! The hot entrees could have been better, the tempura was probably the best thing. I would have liked more variety. The dessert bar was disappointing, but they had a large variety of sweet fruits. I think I'll go back for dinner next time, but for lunch it was definitely a deal!
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