Aki- All You Can Eat Sushi(ayce)

For a friend’s birthday, we decided to do all you can eat sushi for $26.95 at Aki (1210 Walnut Street), which I thought was an awesome deal. I thought Aki’s sushi was good, but I felt that I had better sushi before. See below for a review of the foods I ate. Basically for the sushi buffet, they give you a buffet menu with selected appetizers, sushi, hand rolls, and specialty rolls (for the extra special specialty rolls there is an additional cost of $2.50).

Sashimi

From the appetizer list, I started off with sashimi, mixed salad with ginger dressing, and vegetable tempera.  For the sashimi, it was not unlimited. Only one serving was allowed per buffet patron. I had to get this because sashimi is expensive. I think one order is already like $10. The sashimi was fresh. I ate it will the pink ginger and a tiny amount of wasabi. It tasted good. I ate it slowly to savor it.

Mixed Green Salad with Ginger Dressing

The mixed salad with ginger dressing was very refreshing. The ginger dressing was excellent. The dressing made the salad. The favor was well balanced between sweet and savory. I would like to learn how to make the ginger dressing so I can make it and eat this salad whenever I want to.

Vegetable Tempera

The vegetable tempera was delicious. Even though the tempera was not crisp per se, it was very tasty and the vinegar sauce went well with it. I think I can probably eat ten plates of this if I didn’t consider that it was fattening and deep fried.

Shrimp Tempera Hand Roll

Assorted Sushi and Specialty Sushi

More Sushi and Hand Rolls

Lastly, were the sushi and the hand rolls. I didn’t know which sushi to get. My friend and her boyfriend was going to order everything on the buffet menu so I told them I was just going to eat off what they got. I did order one shrimp tempura hand roll for myself. The hand roll was big and delicious. The shrimp had a crunch to it. I was not sure what else was in the roll but as I ate toward the middle there was some kind of sauce with the rice and it was tasty. All the rolls came on a huge plate so I didn’t know what was what for sure, but I did eat like 10 pieces from the huge platter. I did have the spicy tuna, eel roll, shrimp roll as well as other rolls. They all tasted pretty good. I would come here again to satisfy my sushi cravings.