Tairo Teppanyaki 2($$)

Tairo Teppanyaki

This restaurant sounded like a lot of fun. Kris and I love teppanyaki, good food, entertainment and fun with fire. Who could ask for more? Well unfortunately at Tairo Teppanyaki we could have asked for a lot more. Their more famous deal is 150 Yuan for all you can eat and drink. It sounded like a great deal, and it turns out that it was too good to be true.

We ordered, salmon sashimi, tuna sashimi, bacon wrapped mushrooms, shitake mushrooms, snap peas, lamb fillet, salmon fillet, fillet minion, beef tongue in red wine marinade, tiger shrimp, pineapple rice, a mango, vanilla ice cream, sake and beer.

First off, they were out of the snap peas and didn’t tell us, they forgot to get my beer, and they never got out second order of sake. Second they put mayonnaise on the mango and ketchup in the pineapple fried rice. We then had to order it without the strange dressing, they fixed the mango, but they would not fix the rice. Third the sashimi that we ordered was terrible. The fish showed signs of having been frozen. Under no circumstances are sushi grade fish ever supposed to have been frozen. If it is, then it can’t be sushi and it needs to be cooked.

In addition to the food being horrible, the service was obviously terrible. Our order kept getting lost, or forgotten, one of our friends swore he would order and the waitress only wrote down half of what he asked for. In the end we figured it had to be a scheme, they tell you its all you can eat, then they space out the meal until they close, then forget and run out of things and then they get to charge you the full amount.

Over all I give Tairo Teppanyaki a 2 out of 10, 10 being the highest. I was not pleased with the dinner. The only redeeming quality was the beef tongue which was very good for some reason. I have never had to give out such a bad score before, and I really hope that I never have to again. The only reason it didn’t get a 1 was because I did like the beef tongue and the beer was very cold.

This restaurant does not warrant any more ratings because it was that bad.

However the price of getting ripped off for a not that great all you can eat and drink place is just about right. 150 Yuan each comes out to about $20 So $$ for two people.