8. After solo-ing, it's time for over-eating ... June 2006

A long long long time ago ... there wasn't that many Japanese buffet restaurants aside from those inside hotels and mainly 5-star hotels ... so when one opened like Saisaki/ Shogun ... you know that you are going to need advance reservations ... and so without further ado, we give you a glimpse of what Shogun was good for waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back then

Seafood salads with all sorts of sauce (ours is a white cream based sauce) ... varieties of sizeably cut sashimi ... some seared beef ... and miscellaneous and you know we are off to a good solid start!

Freshly hot off the deep fryer tempura (although their prawns are generally tasteless) ... miscellaneous cooked food including Chinese ... baked scallops ... grilled bacon with mushrooms ... soft shell crab ... and we are so stuffed!

So if you know we said at the first paragraph, that these restaurants were good ... in the past ... now they are more into as many dishes as possible regardless of quality ... so you even have Western food and what-not added to the mix ... sigh!