Don’t bother with this place. It seems that ownership has switched hands in the last two years or so. This, and Sagano (used to be beside KFC and One Stop Love Shop on S.Fraser before closing shop) were really good AYCE sushi restaurants back in the day, but that is no longer the case…

I’ve never seen a restaurant skimp so hard before. First of all, they limit the dinner AYCE menu to only 2 slips/orders, which would be justifiable had it included premium/high end sushi rolls and more variety of BBQ items, but their dinner menu is very bare bones. As other users had mentioned in their reviews, what would normally be an order of a single piece of sashimi, gets butchered into like 8 tiny chunks and counted as such which is ridiculous considering they also limit the amount of sashimi you can order (at an AYCE).

The portions for the other items are just as bad… A bowl of udon literally consists of 2 strings of 5 cm noodles in an over-salted “broth” which can be finished in a single bite. The chicken and beef teriyaki had no flavor. I kid you not, even the TV's hanging in the corner seem to be smaller than what used to hang in those spots. Rather than an AYCE feast, this felt like a taste-test of an inconsiderably small amount of overall subpar items. I get that they are trying hard to limit food waste, but this is unironically the opposite of "less is more"; instead of serving nice respectable portions, the customers need to keep ordering and waiting for these small dishes that the kitchen needs to spend even more time preparing... this is very inefficient when they need to keep grabbing different ingredients, switching woks, taking orders etc to cook small batches as opposed to large ones, of things the customers keep ordering

The service was not up to standard. The servers were friendly, but we were one of the only tables in there on a slow weekday evening, and we couldn’t even get water refills without having to ask each time. Considering how small the portions were, it took an unreasonable amount of time for the food to come out even with at least 4 different cooks from what we could see coming in and out of the kitchen. And of course they bring the cheaper items out first and make you wait for the sashimi and BBQ, so by the time they arrive you have slowly lost your appetite.

I don’t like to dog down on a restaurant without at least pointing out any positive(s); their saving grace is their spicy chicken karage. They do a much better version than the previous owners and actually rival the quality you would see at a Korean fried chicken joint.

To the owners: I’d love to give another chance, but there’s still a lot to improve. Fix the portion sizes, and actually serve the amounts that people order. Have the servers check on the customers more frequently; something as simple as keeping refreshments topped off, goes a long way. If you can add some Korean dishes, such as jjajangmyeon, there would be no need for Noodle Road across the plaza for me anymore.