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| - Given the area, this is one of the better AYCE sushi/Asian restaurants. It's clean, spacious, and has a nice decor and atmosphere, including more comfortable bench and booth seating options. It also has a modernized iPad ordering system to replace those old pencil and paper slips that you had to wait to have picked up by a server before getting processed, so the wait times are better. It also allows you to keep tabs on what you've ordered and what is yet to arrive, although, I have been shortchanged several times on certain items and end up having to keep upping with another order to get what I asked for the first time for sashimi and certain beef- or bacon- based appetizer items.
The food itself, well, it's Canadianized Asian food, and the quality of the ingredients is pretty good. I find it awesome to be able to order creamy coconut milk based Thai curries along with the usual sushi suspects. You can also order bamboo-steamed dim sum items, although the selection of those is quite small.
The dessert menu has a number of items that are only available on the weekend to go along with the increased weekend pricing, and most of them come in tacky little plastic and paper cups so that your table looks like a dentist's supply sales convention. A lot of these are the restaurant's attempts to approximate typical Canadian dessert favourites like cheesecake, so they're nothing worth going here for specifically, but I have to say that the chocolate ice cream here is a lot richer and better than a lot of western style restaurants!
In all honesty I'd have preferred to give a 3.5 but, again, given other factors (the other options in the area, the really nice atmosphere, decent service, nice quality of sashimi) I'll go with 4. There's only one other restaurant in the area I bother with so this one ends up being a go-to place for us.
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