Ichigo Ichie, Sanford

I endured this buffet (on 17-92 in the Wal-mart shopping center) for you yesterday. It's near the closed Mexican place (I think it was an El Potro). The people who run these places are always a bunch of penny pinching little weasels. Suffering through them and the mass of inhumanity that eat here is always a lesson in perseverance. These guys, literally and figuratively, left a bad taste in my mouth. The literal "bad taste" was an undercooked pizza. It is the common thread through all buffets. Raw pizza. The figurative "bad taste" was the fact that they refuse to take American Express and their evident disdain for the customer. The first one I can live with. The second I should understand because I just similarly insulted them a few sentence up. However unlike the people that work there, they are not subsidising my Get Out Of Jail Free card (life in whatever shit hole they sailed out of). These shameless, round eye gluttons make your life possible. Treat them with a little reverence. I know an engaging personality may be too hard to affect, but, at least try to not look hostile. The buffet cost $7 and $2 for a soda. They have a lot of items. I went for sushi. The name sounded Japanese. They had about eight rolls and two nigiri. The nigiri (salmon and what they said was fluke, but, was more likely talapia) was paper thin. They never, ever replaced it once the one plate was gone. Same with the rolls. This was the strictest non-replenishment code I had ever encountered. If I was there after I was there, I would not have had any sushi. I was lucky that I seemed the only one interested in it. The only roll worth eating was the salmon roll. The other rolls were just riffs on fake crab and diced up, spicy fish remnants. Cheap stuff. I had two warm things (nuggets and pork loin). The pork loin was good. They didn't provide knives to cut it though. Try cutting a loin with a spoon. The nuggets were nuggets. The place has three seating areas and a private room. The tables evince the lack of aesthetic sensibility common to the milieu. It includes faux marble table tops, black chairs and a crystal chandelier inside yellow and orange trim. They all flank warming stations. The guys at Caesar's Palace think it's tacky. Tacky and unfortunately too common. But, it takes a while for people, like food, to absorb taste.

I just searched online for what the name means and it means "Each Moment Only Once" in Japanese. That just makes me madder about the sushi and more confused as to why all the staff looked Chinese. It is a fit name. That was the one moment I will spend there. It is an average buffet. It has more than the Sun Valley Buffet in Sanford or the one in Lake Mary. I think I would recommend the one in Longwood (East-West) over all of them (for that area) - especially if you are looking for sushi. None of this would be necessary if Crazy Buffet hadn't gone under.