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Went here today for lunch with an old, old friend who I haven't seen for about 15-18 years. (Really.)
We both had lunch specials - He got a 3 roll for $13 and I got a 2 roll for $10. Both came with a choice of soup or salad and we both had a good (albeit generic) fresh salad with tasty dressing.
The Ginza roll was excellent - cooked salmon, mayo, oinion and tempura flakes. Crunchy and very Americanized - but good. My yellowtail roll was just OK. I can tell the quality of this place is not high end - but for a cheap sushi lunch I would, in fact, go back.
Service was unassuming and prompt - the large dining area was not even close to busy - maybe 4 tables occupied.
I would never waste my money on all-you-can-eat sushi (or all-you-can-eat anything for that matter) since I don't go for quantity - I need quality. This place is OK - but no holy grail.
I must say I'm very disappointed, my two stars are for presentation and prompt delivery. I ordered the rainbow roll, white tuna roll, calamari and chicken lettuce wraps. Where do I begin? ok with the bad.
I strongly feel that when you are delivering food that should be served cold, you don't put it in a bag with hot food because that equals mushy, warm sushi, which is what I got. The rainbow roll, which normally is topped with raw fish was topped with mushy avocado????? which I ended up peeling off to salvage the sushi. The spicy white tuna roll was very good.
The calamari looked like chicken fingers all the breading was falling off and it was under cooked, I took one bite and tossed it. Now I've had lettuce wraps before but mines came with an actual head of lettuce in a bag and chicken filling in a plate. It was not described this way in the menu at all. All in all I don't think I'll be ordering from here again. I'll stick to Niji's on 5th.
I really love this place, it is awesome decor..., excellent sushi, prompt service, almost i go MIXX at least 2 X a mth, sometime with my frd, sometime with my fmly. The Server treat us like fmly, & we never go thirsty, cause the server refill your water once every 5 min.
I had huge fan with their MIXX SPECIAL ROLL, like iso seaweed roll (Downtown Roll), their special Trio Spicy Roll, Velentino Roll. That is SO awesome.My parent not a raw fish person , but they like their kitchen food like baked mushroom, rock shrimp tempura, udon noodle, bento box. AAH, your guy must try their Black Cod Miso, it is so yummy, but it is small portion only.
I try the ALL U CAN EAT SUSHI 1 time, if U think U can eat like 4 or 5 roll (is house special roll like dragon roll, spider roll) so it is pretty worthy.Cause I ate 3 house special roll ( magic tuna ($10), dragon ($10), tasty ($9)) it is already coast $29, and i just paid $24 only, Hi Hi !!! AH, forget 1 thing to tell your guy, their R BYOB.
SO, I RECOMAND MIXX to your guy, it is once my flovar restaurant in town.GO n TRY IT.
Since it's on the block of the hotel I stay in when travelling to Philly, I've given Mixx a try four times. Each time I leaving thinking, "that can't have been a good night for them", but tonight confirmed that it's chronic. I've taken work colleagues there and they had similar responses, so I know I'm not being picky.
Let me start by saying the wait staff is wonderfully friendly and attentive and honestly deserve to work in a better restaurant. Your drink will never go below three sips and they will do everything they can to enhance your dining experience.
Unfortunately the food isn't as appealing. The salad is typically smothered in ginger dressing and tastes like it was assembled that morning and kept in a too-cold refrigerator all day. Every roll that I've tried tastes oddly watery and bland, regardless of the ingredients. "Spicy" tuna and salmon rolls have no flavor, let alone any "spicy."
One saving point for Mixx is that the sushi is served in nicely large portions and tastes relatively fresh. If you go, stick with normal sushi and don't bother experimenting with the roll menu.
I've eaten enough sushi in my life to know that this place is the real deal. BYOB too! Best sushi in Chinatown and all of Philly. Very reasonable priced too. Accepts credit cards too. LOVE IT!!
All you Can Eat Sushi? maybe its the right place for you guys who doesnt wanna spend much money on sushi.. The sushi itself was fine, well its really different if u compare it with 'REAL' sushi restaurant of course. The service is aight, and the roll itself, not that bad though. As long as you can eat all sushi roll they have and you just have 2 hours limited for the "ALL YOU CAN EAT" service, kinda worth it.. After all, its just fyne..
All you can eat sushi for less than $30?! It's a pretty good selection of rolls and relatively quick delivery. By no means is this high end sushi with great presentation... If you want quick and easy on the eyes sushi this is your place. Best part it's BYOB - which our party pushed to the limit by bringing vodka in a water bottle and our own red bulls! ROCKIN!
Prompt service, albeit a little creepy. A member of the wait staff was constantly looking at my table (for the first 20 minutes of my parties meal we were the only people dining). I took a sip of water and blam! somebody was there to refill.
Their sushi is pretty good and relatively cheap. Their pineapple fried rice is out of this world.
I was craving sushi one night, but it was late in Chinatown. My options were limited, and I opted to try Mixx Asian Bistro. I called in an order for pick-up, including a spider roll, tamago nigiri, and a few more rolls to tally my bill to approximately $30. To my chagrin, there were no other customers in the restaurant upon my arrival... despite Chinatown being alive and kickin' until upwards of 2 AM.
Well, it was the worst spider roll I have ever had. In fact, all of the rolls were horrible. I've had better "sushi" in pre-packaged containers from the grocery store. The rice was dry and inconsistent, but boy was there ever a lot of it! The tamago was also dry and lacking of any sweetness. I should have just scrambled some eggs myself and slapped it on rice. The remaining rolls aren't even worth mentioning.
I was left with a bloated rice stomach, an insulted palate, and a lingering feeling of regret for flushing $30 down the toilet.
I will never come back to this restaurant.
I came here the last night because I was craving sushi, lots of sushi. So I opted for the all-you-can-eat option ($24/pp).
The sushi was decent. The selection is large and varied. The service is great. Our server must have come by ever 15 minutes with the water pitcher.
The only thing I would caution you against is getting the all-you-can-eat option. It sounds like a good deal, but you are just paying to feel sick afterwards. Heck, I am still feeling sick from the insane amounts of sushi I consumed last night.
Otherwise though, I highly recommend this place. Definitely the best sushi option in Philly's Chinatown.
I was craving Japanese for dinner and I'm sort of on a budget, so I went to Mixx.
They have a very extensive selection of sushi rolls, which is both good and bad. It's fun if you're adventurous, but not so much if you're indecisive. I went with the samurai roll - eel and avocado, topped with salmon. It was...okay. The texture was lacking, sort of mushy. But the taste was not so bad.
I also ordered the beef teriyaki bento box. For $17, the bentos are surprisingly large. It came with soup, salad, shrimp and vegetable tempura, dumplings, six pieces of California roll and the entree with white or brown rice. The beef itself was mediocre, but I couldn't really complain with such generous portions.
Not bad for a cheap meal.
*** 3.5 ***
I can't speak on the sushi, but I came here for dinner with my boyfriend who got the chicken katsu, while I got the tekka donburi.
Whenever we go to a Japanese restaurant, my boyfriend and I almost always order these dishes, respectively, so we like to think of ourselves as experts on these specific dishes. They cost a bit more here than what we're used to paying, so we were curious to see what the outcome would be.
The chicken katsu was good. I tried some of his, and I liked the dipping sauce, which was pretty much Worcestershire sauce (other places may give you a curry sauce). The way they fried the chicken was like tempura, which was yummy.
As for the tekka don, they get points for creativity, but overall it wasn't really worth the price. Usually tekka don involves a whole big bowl of rice with the tuna sashimi on top. Instead, they plated it, which is fine, but they gave me three skimpy chunks of rice. I'd much rather have a big bowl, so I can chow down... instead, I felt as if I had to ration my rice, so I wouldn't run out before I ate all the tuna. Overall, the portion was okay, but in Boston I could pay less for the same dish and feel absolutely stuffed.
The appetizers on the menu sounded really tasty and I'd like to see how their sushi is, but that is one dish I will not come back for.
I'm a non-fish-eating vegetarian, so I try not to rate sushi restaurants as a rule as i can't comment on the main reason people go to sushi restaurants. But this place had something like 6 or 7 different types of veggie rolls which was impressive! I had the Inari roll and the Veggie roll, which came to 16 pieces at a total of $10, a great deal. They did a good job of seating the 8 of us who came in during lunch hour. When I asked for more wasabi, they brought out a HUGE bowl (it's probably not the good stuff, but I don't care.)
My only complaint, and this is pretty common at sushi restaurants so I'm not singling Mixx Bistro out, is that when you ask your server "Is this vegetarian, i.e. no fish eggs on it?" - that should translate into "tell the chefs to be careful not to get fish eggs on this order." Four of my little rolls had fish eggs on one side, but by the time I got that far I was full anyway.
A great value overall and great, almost overwhelmingly huge menu. Also convenient if you are going out to eat before or after a show at the troc right across the street.
I won't be coming back to this place again.
My bf gets the all-you-can eat sushi and I ordered a noodle dish. The first thing out of server's mouth is that there is no sharing or we will be charged a $1.00 per piece. Ok, I understand. I felt the WHOLE entire time the wait staff was just watching me. It was really uncomfortable for me and I just wanted to leave.
Also, for the all-you-can-eat you can only order a maximum of 20 pieces at one time. Let's keep in mind a lot of special rolls have 8 pieces and if you order two special rolls that would be 16 rolls. Then after that, you can't even get a regular roll like a California Roll because that is a 6 piece roll and with the two special rolls would give you a total of 22 pieces. So basically, you are two pieces over the limit which is pure bullshit. You would have to order your next roll when you finish your plate. They will not let you order more than 20 pieces at one time, so don't even try it because that rule is written in stone.
The Malaysian noodle dish was a very big portion but the sushi was not so good. My bf got the all-you-can-eat but he still sneaked some rolls on my plate. I tried the Crunchy Kani roll and it was drenched in a sweet sauce on top. It was disgusting like they were trying to hide the dryness of the rice with sauce. The same goes for the Crunchy Whitefish Tempura roll and the Dragon roll because it all had the same sweet sauce. I felt like I was eating the same roll all over again.
Then I get the bill and I find out that I was charged $2.00 for Green Tea. Seriously, most sushi places offer Green Tea for FREE. This place sucks.
They seriously served us sushi on PRINGLES! I am not even lying. I forget what appetizer this was we ordered BUT IT CAME OUT ON PRINGLES! There's inventive and there's cheesey. Everytime I think about that, I think about Kitchen Nitemares with Gordon Ramsey and what the hell he'd have to say if he was served that.
That said, the rest of the food was ok--I may go back for the All you can eat sushi, which they started after the Pringles incident, but being served Sushi on Pringles seriously lost this place a star.
PRINGLES!
Okay I want to like this place, but the more I think about it the more I want to give it even less stars. Let me elaborate.
I practically live above this place, and I order here all the time. I do enjoy it and I get decent sushi for a decent price. Decent, not great, not bad, just decent. Nothing has ever tasted bad the sashimi is always good and the rolls have been just fine.
What I do not like about this place is they use WEAK IMITATION WASABI. This crap sinks to the bottom of the soy sauce so it is basically worthless unless you directly apply it to whatever you are eating. Also, sometimes the rice is rather stiff, or as said before, they are stingy on their fish portions within their maki rolls.
The bottom line is, this place is better than many in Philadelphia, but I probably wouldn't go here if I didn't live above it.
My roommate come to Mixx often for the innovative rolls and reasonable prices. I wouldn't say that it's the best sushi I've ever had or the most authentic, but it's pretty good. The decor is a weird funky fusion of Asian themes and interesting (read: borderline tacky) neon lights, but ambience aside, the food is consistently tasty.
I love the crunchy kani roll and they very often have interesting specials posted on their boards to try. And at Mixx, you'll never go thirsty: the waiters refill your water once every 3-5 minutes.
I usually go for lunch, but I hear they have all-you-can-eat sushi in the evenings.
Generally okay sushi. It's good, but it's not the best I've ever had. I did like the spicy scallop roll, and they offered rolls with a larger variety of fish than most places. However, if you get a salmon roll or red tail roll or what have you, it's literally just the fist wrapped in rice and seaweed. If you want anything else in there, you have to pay extra. So if you like a variety of flavors in one, get their other special rolls, like their dragon roll, etc. Their other food is good, too. I really enjoyed the soft shell crab tempura appetizer, and my boyfriend's spicy beef dinner was pretty good.
The staff is very nice and polite, but I'd say they are overly attentive. They hovered around our table, which started to get annoying. The decor is nice, and the place is large and open. I'd say their biggest draw would be the $22 all-you-can eat sushi deal.
Again, the place is nice and the food is good, but if you want a little more wow factor, go to Zento (or Morimoto, if you can afford it).
My husband heard about about this $22 all you can eat sushi place. Sounds too good to be true? It is.
Mixx is a contemporary Asian restaurant serving primarily Japanese food with Chinese and Thai dishes on the menu also. That should tell you already this place isn't authentic, but we decided to try it anyways.
The all you can eat sushi menu looked promising including assorted nigiri, a large list of maki, and special rolls. The sushi doesn't look bad (see my pics), however the quality is just a step above grocery store sushi.
To cut costs Mixx bulks up on the rice and minimizes the fish, especially after your first order. Also, some of the rolls were drowing in unagi sauce, probably to mask the real taste. I did enjoy the spicy tuna roll, which included crunchy tempura flakes. It's the only roll I'd order again.
If you are starving for sushi and could care less about quality I'd give Mixx a try. The staff was surprised my husband and I stopped after our second order (even though we'd eaten 50 pieces by then) but we felt pretty gross and bloated after all that rice. We both agreed we'd have been better off spending $50 on sushi at a real Japanese restaurant.
One of my favorite sushi places..
GREAT sushi, CHEAP prices!
Right now it's still BYOB I think, but they are working on getting a liquor license.
I never tried their all-you-can-eat deal....
When I want Japanese that never fails and easy on my wallet I come to Mixx Bistro. Mixx is right in the heart of Chinatown and convenient with public transportation.
My usual orders, spicy california rolls (comes in 6-8 pieces) for $5, the chicken teriyaki bento box which came with: 6 pieces of rolls, veggie tempura, dumplings, rice and the chicken teriyaki--all for $16! I was in heaven!! Alot of flavor and never bland!
Cons about this place: Most of their Thai and Chinese entrees taste about the same, nothing special.
I eat here at least once- twice a month mainly because of the cheap, yummy sushi.
I love Mixx Asian Bistro. It's hands down one of my fav ethnic restaurants. I am a huge fan of the Dragon Rolls and the Rock Shrimp Tempura. The atmosphere is simplistic and comfortable. The service is great and the variety of sushi and entrees makes it easy for even the pickiest of eaters to find something they would like. Mixx Asian Bistro is my fav restaurant for celebrations. Great food.
i absolutely love the dancing kani roll here..it's got this nice tempura on it that's crisp and light.
everything else i think is average..they have an all you can eat buffet but i don't think i could eat that much..but if you can..i'm sure it's a good deal
I ordered takeout sushi from here and it was really good. The sushi pieced were pretty large and were fresh and flavorful. I thought the quantity was really good as well. I would highly recommend (at least for sushi delivery).
Yummy affordable sushi! The place is kinda small and I went here during the day. Looks like a cool place, though. Only downside for me is lack of fountain soda (we got cans of soda, glass of ice, and straws). Great sushi stop if you're going to Troc or just in the area.
My favorite sushi bar. Sushi there is cheap & delicious. They treat you nicely, and THE SPICY SALMON ROLL IS THE BEST ! They serve imitation wasabi, although with impeccable taste. I repeat, THE SPICY SALMON ROLL IS THE BEST ! There sashmi is DELICIOUS.
Had the all you can eat sushi for 22$. It sucked. There are way too many rules. First, half your table has to do the all you can eat sushi. Second, you cant share with the other people at your table, but you can share with the people doing the all you can eat. Every piece that you dont finish is 1$ extra. The sushi is horrible. They give you way too much rice and cucumber, there is a thin layer of actual fish. Basically you pay 22$ for rice and cucumbers. Not good. I would rather just spend more money getting good quality sushi.
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