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| - What was fresh about this place? The waitresses' bad attitude and poor service. 3 of us did the AYCE for $26, and 1 person ordered a korean dish.
First off, when we got seated, the waitress took 3 out of the 4 drink orders, and then walked away. We had to shout the 4th drink order. After we ordered our AYCE sushi items (limited to one order of sea urchin (uni) and 1 order of sweet shrimp, we waited... and waited... for our food. The appetizers like the tempura and gyoza were fine, although I had to ask for tempura sauce. What place does not bring tempura sauce with tempura? This should have been a red flag, as I had to ask for it. The rest of the sushi came out very very slow, especially for being nearly empty on a friday night at 7pm.
Finally the first sushi order (tuna) came out. It's one thing if the sushi looks like it got rolled over by a car and died 2 weeks ago, but it actually tasted like it died 2 weeks ago and got rolled over by a car, and then sliced and put on top a very hefty wad of mushy rice. It was tasteless. The lack of flavor was attempted to be hidden by the sushi chef adding a clump of wasabi underneath.
The rice quality was nothing that great either. It was a step above the quality of rice found at the supermarket.
Everything else that came out had no flavor and there was a lack of excitement about the food.
We had to wait 90 minutes before we finally got fed up, and said, where is our uni?! The manager in charge said he would go check. He came back a couple minutes later saying it would be out in a couple minutes as they just opened up a new box. (Really? they couldn't have opened up the new box when we ordered the food?) The uni was fine, nothing horrible, but nothing that great either.
The last sushi order they brought out was the white tuna which I usually like, but it was just horrible. It was warm, melted in your mouth (not because it was good quality, but because it was just so waterlogged), and it had a weird almost alcoholic flavor to it. I spit it out and sent it back via the waitress who plainly ignored me until another waitress came by. They were also very slow at servicing our table as we would stack our own plates to make room. We also had to constantly ask for tea, but at least they kept my friend's soda cup full.
My korean friend told me that her korean dish was awful as well. She only ate half of it.
Overall, this restaurant is horrible. The korean food is not good, and neither is the sushi. 1 star was given because that's the bare minimum that must be given and inside the restaurant looked very nice and modern. This place does not deserve to serve sushi.
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