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| - First off, let me say... if you consider yourself to have pretty liberal standards when it comes to food freshness and quality, you're going to think I'm being a bit too harsh. But... that is non-negotiable for me particularly when it comes to sashimi. I'll try to keep this simple. We were a party of 8 that made reservations for a birthday dinner.
Pros:
- Lots of seating space.
- Fast, efficient service, with a pretty typical level of friendliness from a Chinese-owned AYCE
- Decent selection of foods
- Generously-portioned food
- Hot-food items were tasty and well-prepared
- Surprisingly good desserts (ginger milk, creme brulee, etc).
Cons:
- The sashimi and sushi items were definitely NOT fresh - in terms of taste, appearance, smell. .. On orders where there was minced fish (e.g. tuna/salmon) like on their House Yamamoto Roll and "birthday pizza" it was positively revolting - so fishy it was making me nauseous, and our party of 8 agreed as well.
- The presentation of the food was at times comical. Partly it was due to the freshness of the food, but also because of an unfortunate "more is more" approach.
I don't know anyone who goes to AYCEs to eat JUST hot food (i.e. no maki,sushi, sashimi etc.), but if that's your style by all means this is actually a pretty good place. If you enjoy quality seafood though, run the other way! There are tons of other Chinese-owned Japanese AYCE's better than this place.
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