I think I might have just found the best AYCE sushi in the city!! Thanks to my Yelp friends I ended up visiting this place for lunch with my coworkers (although it's far from our office).
We didn't have an issue with finding a table even though it was 6 of us on a Friday. The AYCE lunch is $1 extra Friday and weekends. I think it was $13+tax.
The service was a bit slow as the restaurant started filling up quickly. They had a huge party of around 20 people that day. We had to ask the waitress to get us water. They were quick in giving us the ticket to write down what we wanted. Our first order came in pretty quickly but some of the subsequent orders took so long we thought that they almost forgot them.
Salad - Tried the Fushimi salad, sounded good from the description but it was just meh. We preferred the seaweed salad.
Rolls and Sushi - We tried almost all the rolls on the menu. All I can recall is that the rice didn't have enough flavour and they were kind of stingy on the fish too.
Hot Food - The star of the lunch was the hot food here especially the teriyaki, deep fried calamari and chicken wings. We ordered quite a few wings but they didn't come for a long time. We thought that the waiters lost our order so we ordered more. And the next thing you know we got a huge pile of wings on our table. They were soo amazingly crispy, flavoured and cooked just right though that I am not going to complain about it!!
We also loved the chicken and shrimp yakitori. All the hot food felt like it was freshly made.
As usual, there is no sashimi in the AYCE lunch menu.
Dessert - Yummm. The mango pudding was spectacular!! They have very small portions for the pudding and I could've easily eaten 4-5!!! The green tea ice cream had good flavours too but nothing different than other japanese places.
The presentation for all the dishes was fantastic! They deserve a pat on the back for keeping up such a high standard despite being an AYCE place.
Service was not great but not terrible either. Felt like the waiters didn't care and we had to flag them down every single time we needed to order something.
Food - 4 stars
Service - 3.5 stars
Overall - 4 stars