Yamamoto Sushi

Date: Thursday, July 31, 2014

Location: 7131 Kennedy Rd #E1, Box 61 (in the Market Village Shopping Centre at Kennedy & Steeles), Markham

Website: N/A

Cuisine: Japanese

Meal: dinner

My thoughts:

Had dinner with the fam because my mom's going on vacation tomorrow. This is an AYCE restaurant with food that is what you'd expect from such a restaurant. Prices are also typical of an AYCE place: $23.99 a head for adults, so in other words, expensive, especially considering the quality.

Most of what we ordered was nothing special. Here's some of the dishes we had:

Lobster tails: Free if you make reservations. These were topped with mayo and baked. These were not bad but overcooked and by no fault of the restaurant, had a lot of the creamy green stuff (their organs?). So if you decide to come here and like lobsters, make sure to call.

Coconut pudding: This was too sweet for my liking. Taste-wise, it reminded me of tapioca/sago pudding.

Pretty much the only things that I liked:

Kalbi ribs: We ordered about 10 orders of this. Some were pretty charred, but generally speaking, they got juicier and more tender as the night progressed.

Mango yogurt: This was really good. Creamy plain yogurt with some mango puree. I had about 5 of these. Yum. 

Fried banana: The batter tasted more like bread crumbs than tempura batter. This was alright.

So in sum, as good as the mango yogurt cups were, they don't justify shelling out so much money when the majority of the food is sub-par. And it's pretty hard to mess up Kalbi ribs, especially when they're as fatty as the ones here are. This just reaffirmed my distaste with AYCE places in general. I won't be back.