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| - 10-17-17 Edit- TJ Buffet has reworked their dinner. They've upgraded the quality and also raised the prices. So the former $10.99 Sunday dinner is now $17.99, but it now includes crab legs and other goodies. I'm adding a star for the better dinner quality. I don't know if they upgraded lunch enough to deserve more stars but the last lunch noted below was pretty bad.
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9-5-17 Edit- I visited recently for lunch and was sorely disappointed. Although I've had pretty good meals for weekend dinners, lunch was pretty bad. The staff all seemed to be daydreaming and wishing they were somewhere else. Two waitresses were braiding each other's hair and the waiter was playing with his phone and the manager was reading by the cash register, but meanwhile nobody was properly running the place. There were a number of dirty plates at the buffet station and a number of empty trays that hadn't been filled for a while. Waitresses didn't come to refill water or take plates away unless you interrupt their hair-braiding and ask them to come over. I won't go for lunch again, and I'll think twice about dinner if they're going to let their standards slip.
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6-7-17 review
I was a fan of the Tokyo Sushi Buffet that was here before, and this place is NOT nearly as good for sushi. I first visited TJ Buffet just after they opened in April. Yuck, I turned around and left after seeing only a couple kinds of lousy looking sushi made with chopped mashed fish.
But TJ's has been steadily improving since then, especially for weekend dinner, so I suggest giving them a chance. They had clams and oysters on the half shell and cold shrimp, all of which were fresh. They had cold mussels too, but they were covered with a yucky slimy sweet sauce. They also had hot roast beef, hot crayfish, hot small clams in black bean sauce that was quite tasty. Chinese style ribs, chicken wings, Oh, and a couple "genuine" types of sushi, including tuna, salmon and octopus. Their sushi maker isn't very skilled; the sushi were misshapen and had finger dents, but the fish was pretty good.
All in all it is only about 75% as good as Tokyo Sushi Buffet was, but then again, it's only 75% of the price. I'm also glad to escape the lousy "christian music" soundtrack that Hokkaido buffet has been playing lately.
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