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| - We were craving sushi but were too lazy to travel to our usual restaurant. We decided to give this restaurant a try since it is only a couple blocks from where we were at, and it received decent reviews. As you can see from our rating of this restaurant, it was a pretty disappointing experience.
We were seated quickly once we stepped into the restaurant, the staff were friendly and smiled. The waitress led us to our table and explained that they have an all you can eat menu and told us of their soft drink promotion. We intended to get a party tray for $30, but decided to do the $15.99 AYCE instead since the cost is around the same and we can actually order what we want to eat (we can be picky) and it also included sashimi, although there were only 3 fish choices.
The waitress left and we realized we were not served any tea. It wasn't until they came to pick up our order sheet that they poured us hot tea, really hot tea actually. Before the food came, we took our time to observe the interior a little. It was relatively modern looking and fairly clean...until I noticed cob webs at the corner and oil splatters on the wall.
The sushi in general had a lot of rice, and the maki rolls were poorly made. The sashimi pieces were also cut into varying thickness...some were big chunks and others were thin. They were breaking apart on their own and did not melt in our mouths. But then again, we chose the AYCE option, we already lost our right to complain about having too much rice in our sushi and unappealing food presentation. But wait, there is a little more:
- The fried salt & pepper calamari were way too salty. It was also missing pepper. So it was more like "salted fried calamari" rather than salt & pepper.
- The philadelphia roll was made with cooked salmon...the same kind of boiled salmon that I ate in my congee the day before.
- The red dragon roll was topped with smoked salmon. It honestly wouldn't be all that bad if they didn't add this salad dressing in the red dragon roll. The tangy salad dressing did not mix with the smoked salmon taste very well. The shrimp tempura in the roll was also obviously old and re-fried as it was very hard and looked extremely stale.
- and finally, the spicy salmon roll. They use a brand of chinese hot sauce to make it spicy...it is the same chinese hot sauce my family uses for our dumplings.
We did not receive everything we ordered, which typically happens in AYCE restaurants, except this time we were missing almost half of what we ordered. It took a couple minutes before I successfully caught our waitress' attention as she was too busy chatting with the sushi chefs and we promptly got the rest of our order. Our food came and we soon started wishing we hadn't asked for them as they were just as bad as what we already ate. Everything was extremely disappointing and we were confused how it even got 4 stars on yelp.
We ate the last bit of food we had and the waitress came and collected all our plates and eating utensils. She then asked us how many scoops of ice cream we wanted. We love green tea ice cream so we asked for 3 scoops each. One of us told her "3 scoops please" and the other said "For me too." The waitress returned with 3 scoops of ice cream in one bowl, and 2 scoops of ice cream in another bowl. She handed us 2 plastic spoons, smiled and left. We stared at the 2 scoops of ice cream in the one bowl and just started laughing our head off. At that point we were no longer preoccupied with feeling upset and disappointed; we were plain amused by the fact that "for me too" was misinterpreted as "For me, 2." One of the plastic spoons is also chipped off at the front, which we also laughed at.
So good luck. Maybe if you opt for the normal menu the food would be better. But we definitely do not recommend eating AYCE at this restaurant.
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