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| - I've been going to Yellowfin as my "sushi place" (once every 2-3 weeks) for about a year. Initially, I was just happy to have an option that wasn't incredibly overpriced and over-focused on fancy tempura-laden rolls. Simple sushi is where its at, and its what they do well.
Unfortunately, the quality of their food has only gone down, and after tonight I'm not going to be taking my business there anymore.
We got into the restaurant around 6:50pm. Not peak dinner-time, but still kind of crowded in the small space. There was ONE waiter working the 6-7 tables there, and he was clearly being run ragged. He provided decent customer service given his situation, and was definitely handling it as well as he could.
No amount of customer service can make up for crappy food and unsatisfying portions, though. The "combo" platters are little more than some type of protein (shrimp, scallops, chicken, beef, or tofu), and some vegetables thrown into a wok that might have had soy sauce in it at some point during the day. No kidding, I don't think there was even teriyaki sauce on there...just soy sauce. I can, and do, make better stir fry at home.
Their sushi is small, but they serve it nice and cold, which is a step up from other restaurants in the area. The fish is of decent quality (re: it won't kill you), but today I noticed that the portions of fish had gotten even tinier over the last few months. I think the chef was slicing the fish in half lengthwise, it was so thin!
They do not include soup and salad with your meal, unless it is one of the above-mentioned combo platters. This is garbage. Soup/salad is par for the course for most places now, and no amount of icky tempura-fried banana and slim pieces of fruit served as "dessert" can account for that. The salad dressing for the house salad tastes like water, and they use it like soup; my lettuce was SWIMMING.
Pros: cold sushi, well-flavored rolls and nigiri, and a lot of options
Cons: # of waiters available, soup/salad for extra charge, super tiny portions, and very overpriced.
I won't be back. There isn't much in the way of sushi in Chambana, but there is better than this.
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