Supreme Hibachi & Sushi Buffet

FOOD

Sweet-and-sour chicken and coconut shrimp give the Chinese buffet two familiar starting points. Sweet-and-sour chicken belongs to the Chinese-American style built around a balance of sweetness and tang, while coconut shrimp offers another sweeter choice. Together, they establish the sweeter side of the Chinese selection. Vegetable lo mein provides a nice starchy counter to this sweet start.

Plain rice and fried rice are both among the choices, with green beans and other vegetables alongside the main hot dishes. Chicken wings provide another form of chicken beyond the sauced preparations. Wings are a familiar Chinese-buffet item in their own right, often served separately from the sauced chicken dishes. They bring a nice salty crispness to the chicken preparations available.

Spring rolls supply a small wrapped dish alongside those hot selections. Across Asian cuisines, the term covers different styles, with Supreme Hibachi & Supreme Buffet’s variety prepared in a fried crisp wrapper. Their place in this meal is among the Chinese selection’s smaller dishes, alongside wings and fried appetizers, while the main chicken and shrimp preparations carry the hot line.

Sushi is a regular part of Supreme’s identity, with rolls and other rice-based pieces sharing the buffet with the Chinese food. In general, a sushi roll combines seasoned rice and a filling, often within a sheet of nori; other sushi pieces arrange the rice and topping differently. Sushi refers to the seasoned rice, not simply to raw fish, which helps explain why cooked ingredients can also belong at a sushi counter.

Dinner selections have included eel sushi, and mussels have also been served on the buffet. The assortment changes, so these are examples of the seafood offering rather than everyday promises. Eel is commonly cooked in sushi preparation, which makes it a different prospect from the raw-fish image many people associate with sushi. Cooked seafood has as much a place in that tradition as raw fish, and eel is one of its familiar examples.

The kitchen’s separate delivery menu offers another view of its Chinese cooking. A seafood combination and curry shrimp with onions and mixed vegetables appear there alongside sweet-and-sour chicken and coconut shrimp. Those are individual ordering choices, not additional confirmed buffet inclusions. On this individual-order menu, the shrimp, onions and mixed vegetables also give it a different emphasis from the sweet-and-sour preparations.

For dessert, there is scooped ice cream, including a selection of flavors. Fruit and other sweets also accompany the broader buffet. A scoop after the Chinese dishes or sushi is a pleasantly uncomplicated ending.