I went to the Shota in Richmond with my family for a celebration last week.  They wanted to have AYCE sushi and my cousin recommended going to Shota.  They have three choices of menus.  There are regular, deluxe and supreme.  There aren’t major differences between the regular and deluxe.  But I definitely could taste the difference.

Let’s start with the food.  The quality was pretty bad.  The rice in the sushi rolls (california roll, deep fried shrimp roll) were weird.  Japanese rice for making sushi should have both vinegar and japanese mayo in it.  However, the rice that I tasted was bland and tasted.  I was very surprised and disappointed.  The second disappointment came from the service.  The waitresses and waiters there kept messing up our orders and putting down plates and plates of rolls that we didn’t order.  We had a large table, but there was definitely too much rice for us to eat.  The funnies thing happened when the waitress gave us a plate of tempura shrimp.  She later returned and starred at our table.  When we asked what was wrong.  She told us that the plate of shrimp tempura was not for our table and that shrimp tempura was not on the regular menu.  HAHA.  You should have seen my mom’s face as she was about to put the tempura into her mouth.  Since the plate was already half empty, the waitress had no choice but to let us eat the rest.  But she still made it seem like it was our fault.    Overall, the food is not good and the service is bad.  Even though it was AYCE I didn’t want to eat much because it tasted so disappointing.  I probably won’t return.  My aunt says that the Shota branch in Vancouver is better though.  I took a picture of the price of the meal.  Ouch.  For that much $$, I would rather go to Richmond Sushi.

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