Review: Haiku Sushi & Seafood Buffet @ Redmond, WA

Store: Haiku Sushi & Seafood Buffet
Location: 7548 164th Ave NE, Redmond WA

Price (Dinner Buffet) weekend: $24.95
Price (Lunch Buffet) weekend: $18.95
* They have discounts for birthday celebration, senior and certain employees! (Check their website for details)

As mentioned in my previous post, we went to buffet... Daniel said this after dinner "Go to Haiku, equals suicide"... lol...  you can tell we ate too much!!!

I always have these questions in my head when going to buffet:
1. Do people go on diet prior to buffet?
2. How much does buffet owner earn?
3. How full do people eat from buffet?  80%? 100%? 110%?

For us, we may make the mistake on eating too much that night, when we got up from our chairs, we almost can't walk. When we were on the ride home, I just hope it was a smooth ride. Afterwards, we need to rest at home for about an hour in order to get back to normal.  Never had this experience before, guess we were getting old??

The meal was delicious though, this just proves that if we want sashimi or rolls, it's much more worth it if we eat at buffet, just make sure we don't eat way beyond our means!

So here are the things I picked from the buffet table.  (Note: This is only my portion and I finished them all)  Daniel had his too, but he didn't plate it as nice as me.  :)

First, I started off with some sushi and sashimi, I didn't know the sashimi were at the end; otherwise, I will get less rolls.  There were at least 10 types of sushi roll to choose from and I was picky on my selections.  The scallop you see at the top was raw!  It's delicious but the stock was low. When I asked Daniel why you didn't pick one up, he said where... oops.. he didn't see it.  So we kept going back to the sashimi section and looked for it, we at least went back there 3 times, and he was able to get it once.  And when I went right after him, it's already all gone.  Daniel clearly saw them having more, but they didn't place them out :S  I think those scallops were expensive, maybe that's why??  My favorite on this plate is the spicy tuna sashimi, guess they were mixed with the non-spicy ones on the top left corner.

After the sashimi, I started to get some hot food.  One of the noticeable item is the raw oyster... I am not really a fan of raw oyster but I usually get one to try.  This one really surprise me, there's no fishy smell or taste at all and this thing was huge!  Guess you can tell from the picture.  Another of my favorite is the top scallop shell, it's cream sauce with lots of tiny scallops, that was pretty good.

After all the cold food, I had some hot seafood,  I had calms, oysters, lobsters and soft crabs.  They had cold snow crab too, but I didn't pick any... I did't really want to eat any seafood from shells but I could handle these lobster pieces without using my hands touching them.  We also had some soups and noodles, including miso soup, udon and sweet and sour soup.  The one on the picture was their special soup, which was seafood with radish soup.

Finally, it's dessert time, they don't have a lot of cakes, maybe 4-5 to choose from, but all of them were cut tiny, like the cheesecake in this picture.  The desserts in this buffet were just soso... The ice cream flavors on the picture were vanilla, butter pecan and green tea.  The green tea flavor wasn't very green tea, ok... maybe I had high expectations, it's very similar to the Haagen Dazs green tea.  I like the butter pecan most, it's basically vanilla with pecans.  They also serve creme brûlée.  The sugar coating was good, but the pudding was a bit thick for me.

In general, you can tell I really enjoy my meal here.  I love their environment too, it's the clean and modern look I like.  Also, I may recommend dinner over lunch as they serve more seafoods during dinner.  If I recall, I don't think they serve sashimi during lunch as well.


Food: 5/5
Price: $$
Environment: 5/5
Recommend to friends? Yes, but I will only recommend if you are hungry.  If you are not very hungry, maybe better to head to Oto Sushi.