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| - Had the dinner buffet. Way too overpriced for the quality you get.
Let's start with the positives. The decor is nice, and some of the selections are decently tasty. The yam tempura and fried bean sprouts were good.
However, that's about all that was good. First, the Japanese section. The sushi was mediocre at best. The sashimi is still half frozen, the nigiri is tiny, and the rolls are stuff with some sort of fried crunchy material (I think it's either panko or tempura skin) that are there just to stuff you up but doesn't add anything to it. There's a deep-fry/bbq department, but all the tempura (except for yam) was terrible. Shimp was small and mushy, and scallop was tasteless.
Next is the Chinese department in the middle. There's a fair selection, but most of the food are either overcooked or cooked with cheap/terrible ingredients. Steamed shrimp dumpling was terrible because of how thick the skin and mushy the shrimp is. Steamed crab legs were also lackluster because of the type of crab they used.
Dessert department is nice and big but the selection is pretty standard, so nothing stands out - except that the chocolate fountain didn't have enough chocolate flowing through it so it looked weird. Soft-serve ice cream didn't have a twist option, which was slightly disappointing.
I didn't have the soups or the raw seafood, but I guess they looked decent.
We went on a discount night, so it ended up to be about 32 dollars before tax, and I think the regular price is almost 40 dollars. At that price tag, I rather treat myself to something better even if it's not AYCE.
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