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| - Service: 4 stars
Food: 2 stars
Overall experience: 2 stars
I went to Aji Sai Plus for the first time with a friend on Friday evening. Since they had half price special on all appetizers, we ordered sushi pizza and takoyaki first, and also ordered grilled mussels, rice paper roll, and yonge st roll.
The food was just okay. Takoyaki was just blend fried bites with tiny piece of octopus (or squid?) and sushi pizza was actually quite tinier than other places. Grilled mussels were salty and had cheese and mayo on top. They could definitely use some less salt on that dish. (And they came with huge bed of sea salt underneath it--I'm assuming for the "decor".) When we asked the server how many pieces were in the rice paper roll and she said there are 4, but slightly larger. That was a lie. If anyone had a "fresh shrimp roll (wrapped in a rice paper)" at a Chinese restaurant, you would know what I am talking about. It was exactly that, except it had salmon and avocado inside. TOO small for the price (around $6). Yonge St roll was okay. But like another reviewer said, it's hard to screw up any deep-fried dish anyway.
The server was nice, and the food came out in pretty good timing. The decor was nice, although the music was TOO loud for me.
Overall, I am not sure if I would go back. The presentation of the food is REALLY nice, and perhaps it's a good "drinking" place (and while drinking you can't even tell if the sushi is fresh or not anyway). But for the price of food (at least $2-3 more expensive than other places), the portion was tiny, which I wouldn't have minded at all if the quality was good, and the quality wasn't even all great. I've definitely had better.
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