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| - I was extremely excited to go to aji sai today. I've been craving sushi and I went specifically downtown for some because I thought those AYCE in toronto must be much superior than those in Mississauga.
Boy was I wrong.
A quick warning for mississaugans, even though yangs and aji sai are rated the same (3.5 stars), yangs is far superior!
To start, I liked the atmosphere and ambiance was nice. We were seated quickly, but the tables were kind of small, no big deal though. So ambience: 4 stars.
And that was the best part of the whole experience.
First of all, the fish was warm. Warm. As if it had been sitting outside for like a good 10 min warm. Rice was also warm. When I bit into it, it wasn't the nice, fresh feel but felt sickening. For the handrolls, the spicy salmon felt like it had been absolutely butchered then mixed, not pleasant. The "grilled salmon" was also covered in fat, and had an odd fishy smell to it. To be fair, the fat was because it was the salmon belly, and also since the waiter didn't make us eat the fatty skin we didn't have I endure that in our stomaches, nonetheless I have had much better grilled salmons. The deep fried tofu was also extremely bland. The wakame was covered in sauce, which was good but it was dredged.
The good food was really the black dragon roll (and that's being generous since som pieces didn't even have eel on top) and the firehouse rolls. Other ones were honestly mediocre. Another downside was that they didn't have shrimp tempura! That was pretty disappointing. They also don't have sushi pizzas, or deep fried scallops at lunch which are some of my favourite AYCE menu items. But what was good that I tried for the first time (based on fellow yelpers reviews) was the cheese wontons which were really good.
On the topic of service, the staff was semi nice but constantly got orders wrong. We had to have plates taken away several times because of wrong orders. Tempura also takes a while because the sweet potato is cut too thick. And by the end, us and our next table just looked to each other when we got the wrong dishes and corrected it between us instead.
Ice cream was good. But it always is.
Oh and just a warning, their sushi comes in large servings, of usually 6-8 per type d roll, so go with a lot of people to try more.
All in all, slightly disappointed. I expected a mediocre experience but I got under that, hence the 2 stars. I'm probably going to stick to yangs or 168 sushi from now on
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