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| - I came here yesterday for Father's Day dinner with both my family and my future in-laws. I haven't been to AYCE Japanese for over a year, but when my dad said he wanted to suggest this place, I decided to give it a try.
The space is actually very nice, it's large, spacious with a lot of comfortable seating space. Compared to the finch/leslie location, the atmosphere and the seating is definitely a lot better at this location. They recently just upgraded to the iPad system - my dad said last time he was eating here it was still pen and paper. Because it was Father's Day, it was already packed - we booked a 6pm table and when we arrived, it was promptly ready - group of 7. We sat down, and could begin ordering right away.
Their sashimi is pretty good. quality is fresh, and there are a lot of options to choose from (though not as many as some of the other AYCE in the past - they don't have red tuna!). The scallop & beef tataki only available on the weekend so we took full advantage of it. If you love raw beef - try the tataki!
Sushi - I tried both the spicy salmon and the spicy scallop, both of which are quite nice and tasty. The seaweed is still pretty fresh and not soggy when served, which tells me that the products are coming straight to us as soon as it's ready.
Grilled - eggplant - must try, they did a good job grilling it. Tempura also was pretty freshly done - shrimp, zucchini, taro and sweet potato were all very good choices. Their grilled/stirfry shrimp was really good and the mango shrimp was delicious! Another thing must try is their short ribs - they were REALLY REALLY good. My brother enjoyed the salmon head lol - for those who like to eat that part! their beef with garlic was dry so don't order that lol.
The ramen soup - my brother did not like his seafood ramen at all - said there was no taste. I ordered the beef ramen and i thought it was not too bad - it wasn't super salty and there was quite a bit of beef in it - however, i thought there wasn't enough noodles.. i barely got one full bite!
Rolls - mango roll must order. (there are two mango rolls and both were pretty good) a lot of their dragon rolls are pretty good (ther'e sa crazy dragon roll, or any of the green dragon/ black dragon etc those are pretty good as well). volcano roll was just average - I dind't particularly like it. We wanted to try the soft shell crab roll but it never came. Our hand rolls took forever to come. we asked staff like 3 times, and once with the manager but still didn't get them. finally we decided to order through the ipad again and they did come and were quite fresh - salmon avocado, eel., calfornia and spicy salmon are all good choices.
Drinks - they do include pop all you can drink, which is kind of nice since most places charge for the drinks. choices include ginger ale, sprite, coke, diet coke, nestea. They also serve tea by default as well.
In general, our food actually came pretty fast, which was good esp on such a busy day like yesterday since it's Father's day - the waiting area was swamped with ppl. But it's easy to order since you just plug a bunch of orders on the ipad and then they usually come pretty soon. some items took a bit longer (grilled) but the sushi and sashimi came pretty quickly - ASIDE from the hand rolls.. which i finally did enjoy 1.5 hours into my eating lol. They did miss some of our orders, and some items they actually ran out temporarily as well, which I wasn't quite happy about - no mango or green tea ice-cream, only vanilla and red bean available. and can't remember one of the items on the grill menu was also temporarily out.
Dessert - Their fried bananas are must try together with ice-cream. really good. red bean icecream was really good. I LOVE THEIR COFFEE PUDDING. it is like a shot of really good coffee/espresso taste - i had about 4 cups of them lol! the lychee pudding was not too bad, but the consistency was liquid since i don't thin kthey had enough time to set and probably because they were going through the desserts so fast. the yogurt with mango was also pretty good. the turtle grass jelly was amazing! i had about 2-3 of them (they all come in very small portions - almost like bite sized). mango pudding was too sweet - but for those who have a high tolerance for really sweet things that might be a good one for you to try. tiramisu don't try - it's not good lol. the creme brulee was meh - i only ate the top layer lol. they also have jello - my fiance and brother both liked them.
All in all their food and the quality was pretty good. ordering is relatively easy with the new ipad system in place, but perhaps the first time you try this restaurant should not be on a special occasion day (e.g. mothers day fathers day etc). But do come on a regular weekend and it's pretty good.
I will consider coming back again in the future, and hopefully next time I will be able to try everything I want on the menu without missing orders and certain items being available.
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