AYCE lunch on a weekday.
Food: acceptable for AYCE, but not much serendipity. The menu consists mostly of sushi and specialty rolls, with a few side dishes (AYCE menu available on their website).
A few dishes I can remember:
- Salmon carpaccio (4/5): with refreshing Yuzu sauce. I like the thickness of the cut - goes well with the seasoning.
- Broiled mussels (4/5): juicy with a touch of pleasant sweetness.
- Spider roll (3.5/5): the soft shell crab was freshly fried, thus very crunchy.
- Albacore carpaccio (3/5): ordered both spicy and non-spicy ones, but they taste very similar (or probably we were given the same ones?). Texture of albacore is quite firm, so I feel it should not be cut too thick for carpaccio.
- Dynamic California roll (3/5): an upgraded California roll covered in some teriyaki-mayo mixture, with broiled onion and scallops. Not bad at first bite, but gives the greasy feeling afterwards.
- Vegas roll (3/5): I like the eel tempura on the top, but basically the taste of spicy tuna dominated whatever else in the roll.
- Takoyaki (2.5/5): freshly made, which was good. Apart from that, hmm...
- Cheese pork cutlet (2/5): overdone, and no taste of cheese at all.
- Shrimp and veggie tempura (1.5/5): not well fried. Also, the sweet sauce did not really fit tempura.
- Spicy tuna crispy rice (1/5): the "crispy" rice was just not crispy and hard to chew.
Service: friendly and responsive staff. Service gets noticeably slower after we ordered the 2nd round, probably because there were more customers. Overall experience was pleasant.
Environment: clean and modern.