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| - 5:30pm on a Saturday, the large space was bustling with activity and filling up quickly. The buffet isles were all lit up, the trays were steaming with hot food, glistening and colorful. The sushi was made in front of you, and the area was clean.
We started with the sushi, which was surprisingly good. The pieces were small, but no fishiness -- score! My giddiness increased when I spotted steaming half crabs, but a bad ammonia taste had me later googling "What to do when I've eaten ammonia crab." I had a good laugh about the responses that came up. The green beans were my favorite hot dish, fresh and stir fried with garlic and pickled radish. The mac and cheese was comforting. Unfortunately, my dining companion, a die-hard General Tso's Chicken fan who will eat GTC under almost any condition, did not enjoy their General Tso's Chicken. The salad bar was virtually untouched, and I could see why. Both trays were filled with either limp spinach leaves or browning iceberg. They also have a variety of fresh fruit and a selection of desserts. Jello and soft-serve could be found, two necessary staples of the epic suburban Asian buffet.
If you like volume and variety, this may be the place for you. There is a lot of effort put into keeping the prices as low as they are. For example, the fried scallops weren't really scallops but some sort of imitation meat. I should have known, seafood + all-you-can-eat + we-are-not-by-the-sea probably isn't a good combination. I think the shrimps were real though.
TL;DR: The best thing about this place is the sushi, but it's not good enough for me to come back.
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