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| - This review is mid-grade for a couple of reasons, to start on a good note, the sushi I had here was very good actually, super fresh and great quality. I like to think I have a good opinion on sushi/sashimi quality since I used to work in a sushi restaurant, I appreciate the skill of a qualified and experienced sushi chef and Feng has a great one working here. The look of the plating is a little weird, the glowing lights on the combo platters make the dishes look sort of like overly ornate disco ball shrubberies but I can understand the decision for this style 1) because it is a Hibachi place and ornate is part of that style and 2) the interior is absolutely dour. I don't understand other people's comments saying that they like the interior of this place, they must not have the background to know that the booths are literally from the original restaurant that was probably remodeled back in the early 80s - Young Bin Kwan. I mean the place looked super cool back then, it was like a fake garden with koi pond and decorative lighting on the walls to give an illusion of windows. Now this room just looks like a creepy old skeleton of it's former splendor though. I guess it's easy for some people to ignore or fail to notice this if they are looking at the decorative sushi plates, tiki cocktails, and the Hibachi antics. To be fair, the staff are really going out of their way to try to make this a nice experience. We had a very young and inexperienced waitress who must have put one of the orders in incorrectly and the chicken Teriyaki came with no chicken. We asked to add the chicken and in order to make up for the mistake, they fired up a Hibachi grill down from where we were sitting to cook the dish in front of us while we had our sushi. The miso broth was off, not sure why but it did not taste like a proper kombu/tuna flake prep it was more like the broth of an egg drop soup (ham) with miso paste. Location and ambiance are a big part of the dining experience for me and this place just doesn't have those things going on, I would like to think it's a work in progress but they have changed over businesses multiple times in this location and I think it would require some serious overhaul at this point.
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