I’m crushed to report that our once favorite restaurant for decades is now hit or miss. I’m hoping this is temporary and they’ll be able to come back.

On the plus side, the sushi is still good as always. You may love this restaurant if you order mostly cold items from the sushi bar. Or if you can learn which hot dishes to order and which to avoid.

It can also be a plus that they have a very diverse menu with Chinese, Thai and some Vietnamese if you’re with kids or people who don’t like sushi. You might never run out of new things to try.

Gordon Ramsay would say too big a menu is bad for a restaurant. Jack of all trades, master of none, as most Pan-Asian restaurants like this so often are.

I liked the tuna cocktail. They’ve always made the latter with a red sauce without mayo to make it pink. It’s just as good that way, but request mayo when ordering if that bothers you.

I can also recommend the Singapore noodles, which seem pretty solid everywhere. The waitress was trying to steer us away from the ramen and the drunken noodles. I didn’t try them to see why, but another reviewer said they were bland and lacking the smoky / grilled flavor.

The (imitation) crabmeat salad appetizer was good, though I thought at first I detected a faint fishy flavor I didn’t love. Worth a try.

Ordering the roast Peking duck was a mistake. Maybe it’s unfair to judge them on this dish. The cut up pieces of duck were then deep fried or something, making the cuts dark and chewy. If you’ve seen pieces of thanksgiving Turkey dry out a day or three later, it was like that. It tasted more like chicken than duck. My companion didn’t like it but I was able to eat it.

The once great seafood chowder appetizer was now also bland and lacking something. It had a faint Thai coconut milk flavor but seemed as if it was made with water and a corn starch roux in place of broth. The pieces of seafood were real but also not flavorful.