Saku Asian Kitchen

It’s not what it used to be ever since they made it “buffet style”. They used to cook it for you freshly made

The food there taste pretty bland. I literally just bought beef fried rice, and the beef is soggy with barely any taste. The rice texture is usually a miss (TOO MUCH water). I've had the "recommended" shrimp fried rice there too, it had a weird bitter taste like the food wasn't cooked properly. The Cafe menu (bubble tea) is great.

The food... was... good...? I had the Bulgogi(?) Bento and a Brown Sugar Milk Tea I have a feeling they messed up the order and gave me a Kalbi box instead of Bulgogi, which Kalbi is more expensive. The Bulgogi(?) had some pieces that might have been a bit overcooked, but was otherwise still delicious. There was Tempura with the Bento that also tasted pretty good, especially since there was no dipping sauce provided so if the Tempura was slightly lacking there was no way to cover that up. The rice was fine, the salad was also OK - no dressing on the salad, just greens and some dried fruit. Overall, pretty good The Brown Sugar Milk Tea was... it was what it was, I guess. The drink itself was fine, but the boba was slightly overcooked or sitting there for awhile so it became just a tiny bit mushy -- which made it easier to drink, but no longer had the chewiness that some people associate with boba. Personally, this was fine for me since I prefer the boba to be softer and easier to consume than to have a somewhat hard/firm center when it is a little under-cooked Now the bad part, and why this is getting such a low score. The service was mediocre, as you would probably expect from someone who doesn't plan on serving people their whole life as a career. The atmosphere is an awkward mix of the older higher end dine-in restaurant that existed before, and the newer shop that is a more modern fast food counter experience. This aesthetic clash isn't the worst of it, being overtaken by the lack of proper organization with menu displays - they have a large display behind the counter on the wall, and a taped paper menu on the counter that is a little ways off from the cashier. There is no menu at the front of the shop to look at and consider whether or not there is anything you would want to consider eating before you head in, and I did not see any take-away menus hanging around for customers to take either. This drops the score down to about a 4 at worst only So here we are with the truly terrible part that nukes the entire score for this shop: The Miso Soup was absolutely INEDIBLE. **INEDIBLE**. That thing was cardiac arrest waiting to happen. You might as well have grabbed ocean water, heated it, and called that "soup" instead. Dropping the score to a 2 is GENEROUS. This could easily be dropped to a 1 since food should (1) not be inedible flavor-wise, (2) should NOT be an immediate health hazard for someone consuming it if there are no allergy problems, and (3) should not have been continued to be served to customers while an issue was raised regarding the particular soup, as these are typically made in large batches and held throughout the day. Even the tofu within it was barely "edible" - you shouldn't even eat that part either with how salty it was I declined an offer to have the soup "remade" since it'd likely be grabbing from the same pot with the same errors/issues. There are a few potential things going wrong here: (1) This is Miso Soup. The contents settle very easily. If they hadn't been properly stirring the pot while serving soup, you can very easily grab everything from the very bottom where all of the salt and miso is all concentrated and end up serving that to a customer. (2) This is Miso Soup. You don't want to be heating miso up all the time. It can get damaged easily from excess heat, so if you are keeping it warm on a high flame... you are probably doing something wrong. The cooking method for Miso Soup is to boil the water, THEN mix in the miso. (3) Did I mention this was Miso Soup? There should NOT be additional salt added. Miso itself contains a fair bit already, and the most that should ever be added is a small bit from a reasonably gentle broth. I can imagine where the abomination that was being called 'soup' came from among these things, assuming they didn't decide to just dump an entire large package of salt into the mix just because So there you have it - it's an OK shop aside from some issues, but you've been warned that there are some terrible landmines with some dishes. You have been warned.

Mongolian chicken was pretty good. The table wasn't clean but otherwise it was a nice place for fast food Asian fare.

Absolutely huge portions.

Food is great the 3 or 4 cook's know what there doing the cashier are cool to and the food is always fresh the only thing is sometimes the order can come out wrong but there always willing to fix it

Besides the food being so good! The customer services is amazing! Shoutout to Luis very kind and professional in his own way (:

Food taste/portions: great (have only eaten there 4-5x over the years. But watch out for what they give in their takeout packaging. Not sure whose hair that is or how long it’s been there, but it was Stuck to the drink tray.