Weelll.. I bought a Groupon for Sushi Kai and the meal that my girlfriend and I had there left us feeling very underwhelmed and disappointed.
The service was rushed, which was a little enervating. To start, the miso soup and salad were both very watery and flavourless (not a good way to whet your appetite). We had the beef and asparagus spears to start, which were alright. The beef was unseasoned and was of poor quaility, so it tasted sort of like souped up cafeteria food. Kindof unpleasant but we were hungry.
We had spicy yellowfin rolls and spicy salmon rolls and they were beautiful and the big pieces of fish tasted glorious, however, the only thing that made them spicy was mildly spicy mayo spewed half-heartedly overtop of the rolls. Bummer. And this was the best part of our meal.
Next we had the chicken and beef hotpot. In both dishes the broth was extremely flavourless. The beef tasted better than the chicken. Both of us are foodies and enjoy picking out flavours and we couldn't taste any spice or seasoning in the broth except maybe salt and soy sauce. The beef came coated in teriyaki and was nicely sweet, however it didn't make up for the bland broth that is supposed to hold the dish together and bring out the flavour of the veggies, which were either cold and raw sitting on top or boiled to oblivion inside. The absolute worst was the chicken hotpot, which smelled overwhelmingly of boiled chicken fat from the time it arrived at our table. The chicken in the order was of very poor quality, nobbly gristly strips of fatty flavourless meat. I was very disappointed. The chicken left a lot of grease in the meal and was mostly inedible. The meal went from bad to meh to worse.
Might be alright if you just order sushi and don't mind being treated like you're in a canteen.