Review of: Tokyo Japanese Hibachi & Sushi Buffet of Freehold Twp., NJ

Of all the buffets I have been to, this one has some great food, decent to today’s “fast & everyday Chinese/Japanese cuisines". I had a few good things to say about it, but I had a few things that I witnessed it as a “Beta flaw”. I ate the buffet portion of the restaurant. I will be sure to try out the Hibachi portion of the restaurant next time. It’s either-or, so you can’t have both meals… unless you have the stomach and money for it. Here’s my review:

Name: Tokyo Japanese Hibachi & Sushi Buffet
Location: 4345 Route 9 North, Freehold, NJ 07728
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Date of Visit: December 13, 2008 6:52PM~8:12PM
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Positives:
The food was decent, but the striking point of this Japanese Sushi buffet was the fact that there are made-to-order Hand Rolls and great Sushi choices (even if some were the same as the others.) The one other thing that I was very excited to eat was the Shanghai Style Pork Buns (Xialongbao, "小籠包".) Believe me, that’s my all-time favorite!

     

Negatives:
I can’t write this in a messy paragraph, so I’m going to bullet it:

• Cleanup of tables is slow (Took about 10+ minutes for one table to get clean due to ignorance by waiters/waitresses)
• Small location, can expand, should expand, can’t expand, they won’t expand.
• Pricey: $19.99 per adult for dinner!? Dang!
• Cannot handle nights with many people, the staff can use training for “full house nights.”
• Needs a paging system rather than “calling out the name”.
• Needs a bit “more” food choices.
• Insufficient dessert bar. Just Ice cream doesn’t cover it.
• Siu Mei (or Shumai) meat looked uncooked for a second… close call.

Negatives (For that particular night):
It was only tonight that my father’s bill was way past incorrect. In fact, the waiter gave the wrong Guest Check and my father always uses his credit card without seeing the bill. Thus it got charged… but he didn’t sign it and got the right receipt. They need to use their eyes and LOOK at the receipt before letting someone who just whips out their credit card pay immediately.

Overall Score (From 1~100): 76%
Remarks: Out of that, I just didn’t like the service that much. Otherwise, it’s fine. I’d like to see more “evolving” with that restaurant. It might get a lot better and become my frequent dining spot!