Tokyo Asian Fusion

The food was absolutely amazing! But… the service is absolutely terrible! The second time I went was the exact same…

Tried this place with my wife this evening. We started with the Goyza fried dumplings, were the best we’ve ever had. She had Mango Shrimp and said it was excellent. I had the spicy tuna roll and spicy California roll. Neither was spicy and both were just average.

This is the second restaurant of this kind to open this month. They are almost identical, from the menus to the interior décor and even the friendliest of waitstaff.
Based on what items my husband and I eat at these two restaurants the value is a little better here. Our choices costs $ 1.00 less and they come with soup and salad, whereas Yamato just offers the entrée with no extras.
One deciding factor as to which restaurant will be the most popular, in our opinion, will be their ability to maintain high quality. Of course, Tokyo will see a higher volume of traffic due to their location in a shopping center near the Walmart Supercenter and movie theater, but to me success means repeat customers. If the quality isn’t there I do not go back at all, or I take a break from the place for a few months and let them have a chance to regroup.
The main differences between these two, practically mirror image restaurants, are the number of dishes offered and the taste of the onion soup and the miso soup. Yamato only offers the two soups, whereas Tokyo offers seven flavors. The soup base at Yamato is the same so it doesn’t matter which soup you order… both tastes the same.
Beef lovers, such as my husband, will have much more to choose from here at Tokyo, with upward of 30 variations to pick from. You can eat here everyday for 2 ½ weeks and have nothing but tempura options, with at least 14 of them being shrimp.
The New China Buffet has been the place to go for sushi and stir-​fry foods for the past decade, but with this new blood and competition they are adding a hibachi buffet area to their restaurant and it will be functioning within a week (end of Dec and there aren’t any details yet as far as price and availability).
The hibachi salmon entrée was my first choice for the grand opening visit to Tokyo and was not disappointed in the least. It is served with fried rice, vegetables, soup and a salad. My husband chose to try the NY Strip hibachi entrée served with the same options. I don’t know what their secret is to obtaining such tender steak but it is better than most steak houses and definitely better than almost any steak sold in this town.
Let’s see if it is just as good tomorrow.