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Val's birthday at Fuji Sushi Buffet

We opted to celebrate Val's birthday on a different day so that we could invite as many of the family as possible. This is in such a sharp contrast to last year's birthday celebration at home because we had to limit the number of guests to his party. 

(Thank you, Moderna and Pfizer vaccines and booster shots, California, and medical professionals for slowly bringing us to something near normal!)



The Fuji Sushi Buffet in Concord was in its soft opening period when we celebrated Val's birthday.  When we arrived, we joined the queue by registering on the restaurant's waitlist. A few minutes later, we were ushered to our dining table and our drink orders were taken. The server also listed down our orders for appetisers, soups, and salads. However, the server did not hover too much since the stars of the show were the sushi... and we could get them on a centre island where chefs worked their magic.

Thanks to my allergies, I could not explore all the options that the chefs were whipping up. Instead, I stuck with the dishes I knew I wouldn't get a reaction to—miso soup, salmon sashimi, aburi salmon nigiri, Philadelphia roll, seaweed salad with sesame dressing, fried oysters, and vegetable tempura. The others went with California hand rolls, shrimp tempura, grilled hamachi kama, and fried soft shell crab. 

We could eat as much as we could but within the 1.5-hr time limit. This was not written anywhere obvious on the restaurant's website and we just learned about it when we got there. Good to know for the next time that we eat there.

Fuji Sushi Buffet in Concord is on soft opening. They have a number of kinks to sort out, definitely. But the food was delicious and definitely worth coming back to.
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