This restaurant was quite nicely decorated. It was quite empty despite lunch hour on a week day.
The Japanese Appetisers, Salads and Oden Buffet cost $138+10% and you got to choose different mains at different costs which included miso soup, steamed egg, pickles and dessert.
There were not too many different food items on the buffet table, but more than enough to fill the stomach. The quality was ok in general in terms of buffet, although I would say most were quite salty. There were some really fresh and crispy greens, carrot/cucumber/celery sticks, smoked salmon, 3 types of cheese (quality a bit sub-par), cherry tomatoes, sweet corn, some pre-mixed salads with Japanese dressings like sesame, Japanese-style appetisers like 玉子燒 but they were really cold, Japanese-style small dried fish, sliced Italian-style veggies and some cooked chicken slices which were really hard. The oden was ok, although not as good as those served at convenience store in Japan of course! For fruits, there were only some dragon fruits and pineapples. My personal opinion was that, the cost of $138+10% seemed not so justified by this simple buffet, so you really have to top it up by ordering a main.
The rice and the eel were hot! There were quite some eel which were of reasonably good quality as expected. There was plentiful eel sauce in the rice. Yummy indeed!
The accompanying steamed egg was very smooth but the chicken/pork inside was super hard and rough. Pickles were just ok. The miso soup was normal.
Comparatively, this sukiyaki don was less delicious as the beef was quite rough and fatty without much sukiyaki flavour. The quantity of beef was quite a lot though. The vegetables like those onions and leek tasted better. The half boiled egg mixed with the rice made the rice very smooth and was really delicious!
The accompanying ice cream was quite thick and dense. A perfect end to the meal!
Overall, we had quite a satisfying lunch with reasonably good quality of Japanese food. Service was quite attentive as the waiters/waitresses took away the finished plates quite promptly. It was quiet enough for a nice chat over lunch. Would definitely recommend this place to others.
