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| - Decent food. But comparisons with the nearby Kyoto House restaurant (also ayce) must be made.
Came here for ayce lunch on sunday. It seems like the portion sizes here are too huge for an ayce place. For ayce place, this is a bad thing because meaning it's easy to over order and gives you less opportunity to sample other things. Kyoto House gives me the feeling that they keep each portion as small as possible so you don't accidentally over order (which is good, IMO).
For example, the salmon roll at Kyoto House is 6 small rolls with just salmon, rice, and seaweed that is good enough for a sample. Or if you order more, it won't fill you so you can't try something else still. The salmon roll at Sushi Bento is packed with salmon, avocado, and lots of rice, which is twice the size of Kyoto house's.
The outside of the restaurant entices you with tempura shrimp all you can eat for lunch, which Kyoto House doesn't have for lunch. But when you get to see the ayce menu, you'll find that one order is for 1 tempura shrimp AND 3 pieces of veggie tempura, which was 1 BIG piece of broccoli and 2 yam tempura. The broccoli tempura was so huge, the centre wasn't fried properly and the batter was still kinda raw or soggy. Needless to say, I didn't order any more shrimp tempura. The yam tempura was okay size.
I'm always quite careful when ordering things at ayce restaurants so I don't over order. I ordered quite conservatively and I was planning to order different stuff for round 2, but the portions in round 1 was so huge, not only could I not order round 2, I was struggling to finish round 1. I was ordering like I would at Kyoto house and it's like I'm getting twice the portion sizes here at Sushi Bento.
The menu for lunch seems smaller than that of Kyoto House. Kyoto House has a slightly better menu for my tastes (with calamari tempura). Sushi Bento has a fire dragon torched sushi (8 pieces), which I didn't dare to order cuz I didn't know if 8 pieces would be too much. Seeing the portion size of other things, I suspect that the 8 pieces could be my whole meal.
The services were really good. The lady was very kind and professional.
I don't think I'd be back again. I was out of lunch ideas for work and the tempura shrimp in front of the restaurant got me to go inside. Fool me once... Lol.
Quality: 5/10. Service: 8/10. Value: 5/10. Overall: 5/10.
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