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 Yummy Japanese Food,  Monday, 31 March 2008 This is my favorite Japanese restaurant here in Dalian.
The service is great, the atmosphere and the design inside is nice and not too much for my taste. The Food is great. Sushi and Sashimi is nicely done and the warm dishes are also really good! A 10 for the Food!
An 8 for Ambiance because I don't like that so many Chinese smoke there. I can't really enjoy my food when I am sitting next to a table with four smoking men.
The service is perfect! They have a lot of waitresses with these Japanese-like dresses. They are really friendly and fast. They speak Chinese and Japanese I think, the boss-waitress also speaks some English so if you are not fluent in Chinese this won't be a problem. The menu is in Chinese and Japanese but there are pictures (!). :) Service is a 10.
Of course, for Chinese conditions the price is a little hight, I mean compared to ordinary restaurants here in Dalian. Anyways I think the price is very reasonable. When it comes to raw fish I think one should spend some more money for the sake of health! Cost is a 9.
When I go there with my girlfriend, we spend about 200 - 300RMB for cold and warm dishes and sushi. If you don't order Sushi and Sashimi it is cheaper.

P.S.: In case you go there for lunch they will offer you one of 30-40 Lunchsets. They are about 30-80RMB per person.

Check it out! It's worth it!

 bad experience at Starbucks in Parkland,  Thursday, 04 October 2007 For my birthday my girlfriend invited me to Starbucks because we thought they might have good coffee and good cake there... So we went to the Starbucks in the Parkland Shopping Mall.

We ordered two coffees and two strange looking cakes. The coffee was okay I think. The cake was maybe chinese style. So we decided to get a standard chocolate muffin and another cake that looked familiar to us. My girlfriend bought them and they gave her really the oldest pieces of cake I ever had in a coffe or restaurant. They were really dry and hard and smelled like onion. And the staff was not really treating her nice, maybe because she is half chinese... I dont know. So I took the muffin and the cake and talked to one employer to get the money back. He tried to tell me that it's fresh and that it's american style... I insited of getting the money back even after he offered to microwave it for a better taste... eh yeah...

I got back to the table to finish my coffe which actually was a frappucion... so this icecoffe kind of thing in a plastic cup...

When I finished it I could see some strange drawing on the bottom of the plastic cup (it's seethrough....) and I turned it around. It was a "swastika" symbol - the symbol the nazis used. If you know something about german history you will know that this is maybe not the best birthday-present you can get if you are a german...

My girlfriend and I were really angry about that and shocked... this was the first time that I made an experience like this in China... I think the person who did that didn't know too much about european history... and I think he or she did not know that I am a german... so well... but still it really sucked. And the way they treated my girlfriend was also not too nice... I don't understand that. Starbucks should be a place for everbody. I don't get why the staff - or maybe it was only one guy - is racist...

Finally I want to say that the coffee tasted okay. The atmosphere and the cakes are crap and everything is too expensive!(at least for chinese conditions) My suggestion: Don't go there!