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Wide Array Of Cuisines Available At New Tokyo Bay Buffet On SR 7 Story and Photos by Julie Unger
Tokyo Bay Buffet opened this past spring in Royal Palm Beach offering more than 50 kinds of fresh sushi, hibachi, seafood, homemade desserts and more. Manager Johnny Chen is excited about the new location, which complements another Tokyo Bay Buffet restaurant in Georgia. Tokyo Bay Buffet is special, Chen explained, because it is different from other Asian buffet restaurants. His favorite dish on the vast multi-part buffet is the Thai Mango Shrimp. “It’s peeled shrimp with fresh mango sauce and other vegetables,” Chen said. “It’s a little bit sweet, spicy, and it’s really nice. That’s why it’s my favorite.” It’s also one of the most popular of Tokyo Bay Buffet’s many offerings. Chen has eight years of experience in the industry and is proud of the unique offerings and style at Tokyo Bay Buffet. “We serve sushi, hibachi, Asian food, Chinese food, seafood like snow crab, cocktail shrimp
and oysters. We have homemade desserts as well, like crème brulee,” he said. The dishes reflect many different cultures: sushi and hibachi are Japanese, the hot dishes are Asian, mostly Chinese and Thai, as well as the seafood. Some of the most popular seafood items are the snow crab and oysters. The recipes are also very authentic, Chen explained. Chinese food in China is different from typical Chinese food in the United States, he explained, but Japanese food doesn’t change much, except for the addition of cream cheese in some items. In Japan, dairy isn’t common. “What you see here,” he said, “if you go to Japan, you’ll get these items as well.” All of the sushi is made fresh on the premises. Every day, special orders of fish are flown in from a Japanese company that provides the wellington the magazine | december 2016
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