Sushi Station Buffet

I'm unsure how I should go about reviewing buffets. Its very hard to get a picture of the food in a good buffet since it would be constantly getting attacked and refilled. At the moment, I think I will take pictures of my plate and proceed as usual. I will describe the place in general and use your imagination to imagine what it is like.

Anyway, this is somewhere I've always dubiously looked in on when around my crib, aka West End. Its in a spot that is rather shabbily kept and I always think its one of those long untended shops that have been unoccupied. Surprise, surprise when it turns out to be actually solidly popular. Most of the time when we go past, there's at least ten or more people here enjoying a meal, older Asian people and lots of tradies generally. I've balked a few times because $15 a head on lunch buffets sounds like some sort of witchcraft. My Boyfriend has been here once or twice before he tells me with his family and said it was quite solid. So here we go, Sushi Station Buffet!

Next thing gas prices will drop and then bam, children of the corn.

We were actually the first people here on that day, they flipped the signs around about half an hour early when they saw us checking out their prices. It was a sign.

On the furtherest left there's a fluorescent light bulb lit table of sushi on both the left and right side. Then a little section of salads, a miso soup, tea and rice station. On the right is a fried food section right before the kitchen door and then a little further down from the fried food section is an isolated dessert station.

I picked out random stuff, I'm not ashamed to admit it. The fried chicken was quite good, I really wasn't expecting it to be. Crispy, well salted and juicy, I'd have eaten my weight in this fried chicken if I didn't feel guilty about eating that much meat. The seaweed ship was good, a touch on the small side and not much bigger than a mouthful but hey, its a buffet, go back and get some more. A char siu nigiri, it was dry and a bit chewy, not the best combo, the color combination of bright red edge and grey overcooked interior is not particularly attractive either. The smear of something and fake crab meat was a touch grainy and I didn't take much notice of it. The tilted sushi inside out sushi roll is a vegetable tempura, much crunchier than the large chunk. The inside out char siu was much softer and tender than the nigiri, so go for this if you want to try char siu susi. The egg and chicken wasn't bad as well as the last chicken, lettuce and cucumber. The vegetable tempura was mostly sweet potato and onion.

My second plate was stir fried saucy noodles with cabbage, carrot and onion pieces, it was actually pretty good to be honest. More fried chicken, a minced fake crab gunkan which is as bad as it looks, the cooked tuna was really good, the salmon nigiri wasn't bad, the tamago/egg omelet was cold, slightly grey and sweet, the teriyaki chicken was tasty as was the tuna and cucumber mishmash. You can also see my steaming bowl of miso soup in the background, it was terrible, massive fronds of seaweed floating about as well as uncut chunks of soft tofu, some as big as your thumb, some as small as a five cent piece.

This is an odd pastry I picked up, it had sweetened mung bean paste inside a flaky puff pastry shell. I had about three of these, they were a lot better than expected considering I picked them up out of curiosity.

Sushi Station Buffet:
Atmosphere: 5, seems like dining hall hell. Its like a cheap Asian cliche threw up in a restaurant.
Service: 5, meh, its a buffet with not a lot of people in it. Although I think my Boyfriend would say it was worse because of the old guy who was glaring at everyone he said.
Food: 5, I wouldn't go here again but it gets a 5 because I didn't get food poisoning and liked the fried chicken and the yellow bean pastries. You honestly get what you pay for an $15 for all you can eat fried chicken isn't bad.