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| - The good: Unlimited seafood for 14 bucks. This includes sushi and crab legs.
The bad: Okay, it isn't bad, per se, but most of the food tastes like buffet food. It is generally good, but after trying a little of most everything they had to offer, nothing stands out as something I just have to have more of. They do an excellent job at serving tons of good seafood to tons of people. The sushi was good, not great, but for the money, it was a really nice addition to the menu. Also, see below...
The funny: Well, it wasn't funny at the time...but it made for some interesting people watching... I'm not sure if they have crab legs every night, but the night I went they did. They were very busy that night, and crab legs were obviously the main thing people came in for. It seemed like they rationed the crab legs by bringing them in in 10-15 minute intervals, so for much of the visit, the section of the buffet where they served them would be empty.
As soon as the employees would bring out the next load of them, people descended on them like famished scavengers. One time, I was fortuitous enough to be at the right place at the right time when they came out, and there was only one man between me and a few crab legs. I patiently waited while he filled his plate with as many as he could carry back. I stepped forward and all of a sudden a little girl, about eight, stepped in front of me and grabbed the tongs and said "Can I have one?" I said sure (as any other respectable man in the presence of a cute eight year old with cute dreadlocks would do, right?), and I let her ahead.
About 30 seconds later, her plate was filled higher than the man before me--and between her and the other side (you can access the crab legs from two sides of the buffet, nearly entire stock had been taken. I did get a few of the small leftovers that were somehow left, and retreated to my seat.
As I sat down, I saw two women in a nearby booth...each of which probably had their own gravitational pull. Their entire table was filled with plates of crab legs and the sad aftermath of the crab carnage that had taken place in the preceding moments. As it turns out, there were three different tables of people who were all together, probably 15 people in all. The little girl I so graciously let in front of me belonged to one of them, as did the ladies. All three tables had massive amounts of crab legs, even the table with only young kids...who in reality probably had no real hope of enjoying them because they had no adult supervision...and no obvious way to open them.
After watching for a few minutes, I realized that the two planets, I mean, ladies, never got up. Instead, I saw that each of the kids at the various tables was taking shifts to get to the crab legs as they were brought out from the back. Each kid would go up and collect as many as he or she could and bring it back to be divvied up amongst the tables. Sometimes two kids would each attack a side of the buffet, leaving little or nothing for the remainder of us.
The little girl was no little girl at all, she was but a mere sattelite charged with collecting all the crab legs she could to satiate the hunger of the mothership.
That's a long story to tell you that while the allure of crab legs is a strong one, be prepared to fight, stalk, and trick your way into getting your share of them. Personally, while they are good, I'd rather go somewhere that charges a few more bucks but doesn't ration the product--allowing an impolite galaxy of scavengers to ruin it for everyone else.
Still four stars for it because as an overall the place was impressive, but maybe they could figure some way around this problem by having a server bring the crab legs to each individual table as needed on a more even basis.
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