TryYaki Noodle & Sushi Bar

This particular TryYaki suffers from the same problem as the one on 23^rd street; TOO MUCH DAMN SODIUM!
I only order carry-​out at TryYaki. Never ate the buffett. The service is always fantastic and extremly friendly. This is the main reason I continue to return in hopes that maybe the sodium issue is not the norm. Well, I’m pretty certain every dish I order is overly salted or they are putting way too much MSG in their food. I love their sauted veggies. Very good crab rangoon and egg rolls. Anything with rice or noodles is just too salty and unable to finish the dish.
TryYaki still provides some of the largest portions of Chinese food in all Lawrence.
Don’t forget to request the free drink that accompanies all carry out orders.
Prices are below what most places charge. Orders are always accurate. Be careful though, because TryYaki charges extra for every little request.
The chinese selection in Lawrence is still terrible from what I’ve found thus far. I will continue to seek out a better option in Lawrence for good chinese food.

NO MORE BUFFET and a raging upset stomach. I’ve eaten here countless times for the buffet and always enjoyed it. On this trip however, we learned they have stopped doing the buffet and the menu now matches the one on 23^rd St. The buffet was really the only reason to go, now that it is gone I don’t think I will be back. The GI issue was just the icing on the porcelain cake.
Our entrees were brought out one at a time with a good 5 – 8 minute gap between each person. By the time the 4^th person got their dinner, the first person was finished eating. The first order wasn’t complete and the rest of her order was brought out with the 4^th person’s plate…20+ minutes later.
The food was just okay. I would even call it average for buffet food… but this wasn’t a buffet. The staff is still friendly, but unless they are deciding to get out of the restaurant industry and into the «lets be friends business», they need to make some significant changes.

They no longer have a buffet! There’s a difference between eating crappy Chinese food at a buffet and having to order food, pretending you’re legit. Pass.

This is the best chinese buffet in Lawrence. All KU students can agree that the tryakki delivery/​drive thru is one of the greatest things in town and the buffet is no different. It has your standard asian fare you would find at other buffets, but you can also get sushi and they have a noodle bar where you pick out noodles, meat, etc. and give it to a chef where he prepares it fresh.
I am a potsticker guy, and these potstickers are by far the best you will ever get at any buffet. For fans of the delivery service, you should know that they use the exact same potsticker recipe at the buffet so you can literally eat as many of these as you want (way better than the $ 5.95 you pay for take-​out). They dont have the sauce on the line, but if you ask one of the waitresses they can grab it from the back.
This is a great place with an awesome atmosphere. It feels very cozy and comftorable right after a huge night of partying, and the bowl of noodle soup will do wonders for your hangover.

When Tryyaki was a buffet it was my favorite restaurant. I was actually really disappointed to find that they’d replaced the buffet with the menu from their drive-​through on 23^rd street. If I’d wanted any of that I wouldn’t have gone out!
They still kept the noodle buffet, but at $ 6.35 a bowl it’s hardly a deal.

There are some benefits to living in a small college town — one of them is the existence of affordable buffets like TryYaki. To sort off any confusion off the bat, the regular buffet (Mon-​Sat) is $ 6.99 for lunch, $ 8.99 for dinner. On Sunday they have a Sunday buffet that is $ 7.99 all day.
Less than $ 10 for all-​you-​can-​eat sushi? That’s almost unfathomable in a regular city. I came on a Sunday with fairly low expectations to get in, get some sushi, and get out… I ended up staying much longer due to the vast selection of their buffet:
–SUSHI: there are 12 different types of rolls; no nigiri but you really can’t complain given the price and selection. To my delight only 3 of these 12 variations contained cream cheese (I consider this to be an utter disgrace to sushi), and the others include ingredients like crab, unagi, vegetable tempura, and something that resembles a rainbow roll. The obvious problem with an inexpensive sushi buffet is in the quality of the raw fish. I’ll admit there were some pieces that looked questionable (pallid in color) but I simply stayed away from those. And if you’re feeling adventurous — they have a deep fried sushi as well…
–COLD APPS: a salad bar that has standard cold items like vegetables and fruit but also baby octopus, mussels, and shrimp cocktail. I wouldn’t consider the octopus/​mussels prime quality but the shrimp is just fine — sweet and tasty.
–NOODLE BAR: you have a choice of 6 noodles (udon/​phở/​clear noodles, among others), 4 broths (chicken/​beef/​veggie/​spicy), 4 protein (chicken/​beef/​squid/​tofu), and multiple other additions like napa cabbage, fish balls, bean sprouts, and scallions. Take your bowl up to the window where a friendly Asian man will take your bowl and ring a bell when it’s ready. Beware, the spicy broth is heavy on the msg, but the novelty of creating your own noodle bowl is what makes this station exciting.
–CHINESE FOOD: Here you’ll find everything you’d ever want to order from Chinese takeout — general tso’s chicken, sesame chicken, beef and broccoli, lo mein… I can’t personally speak for any of these items as this isn’t really my thing.
–FRIED FOOD: Items worth trying include panko-​crusted shrimp, vegetable tempura, and sesame balls. I was disappointed by the crab rangoon, it’s one of my guilty pleasures but the filling was oddly seasoned.
–In addition to all the above items, there are random desserts floating around as well as an old-​school soft serve machine. If you’re a taster like me, you may as well give up ahead of time on trying to have a little bit of everything here.
The interior was clean and the wait staff very attentive and nice. My main gripe with TryYaki is that the prices aren’t advertised clearly. And of course, the quality of the ingredients isn’t top notch, though it’s certainly passable. You’ve just got to cherry-​pick. But hell, anytime I think of these negatives I always come back to the same thought: at this price, all you have to do is eat a roll of sushi and it pays off. I’m not going to be the jerk who complains :)

Compared to other Chinese buffets in Lawrence, tryyaki has less options in the buffet but it does have the noodle bar. The noodle bar is similar to the hibachi grill bar which you select raw ingredients, let the staff cook them, and add your selected soup, which can be pork, beef, or spicy (if I name them all). The beef and the spicy soups are good. For the spicy soup, the taste is similar to the spicy hot pot in the Oriental, which I really like. The sushi quality is dropped compared to last year but I can eat some of them, such as fried tempura roll. Stir-​fried chicken, chicken curry, and lo mein (occasionally) are good. The service is also good. Well, I said the Jin Chan is the most delicious. This place is the second-​best and it is much more convenient to go so I give them five stars.

Was ok. They had a buffet, even for take away where you could choose from both chinese cuisine and sushi.

I love this place. For someone like me who wants a lot of sushi without having a lot of money to spend, this is perfect! The sushi you get isn’t the day-​old, hard-​as-​a-​rock kind either. They always put fresh plates out with a lot of variety so there’s something tasty for everyone, which may be the best part about it.
A common issue for some sushi fans may be that their dining companions are a little more unenthusiastic about the sushi options. For the less enthused, the noodle bar allows you to put together a noodle bowl from a variety of meat, vegetable, and noodle choices and have it cooked to order. While you wait, there’s another section of the buffet with standard fare you’d find at other asian places (egg rolls, crab rangoons, beef with broccoli, etc).
For the way people eat at a buffet (especially in a college town), I don’t know how they stay in business with the prices as low as they are. I try to make it in as much as possible and recommend it to anyone for a great lunch.

I feel the same as the previous post. Good sushi at a great price. I usually get the noodle bowl as well and always feel over stuffed when I leave. They also have a small Chinese buffet for people aren’t completely sold on the sushi idea.

This place is very good for filling the void that Jade Mongolian BBQ made when it went out of business. They have a decent Chinese buffet and a good, cheap sushi selection. The staff was nice and attentive, the restaurant was clean.
The thing that sold me is their «hot pot» noodle bar. Select your noodles, meat, veggies, etc., and then take it to the window, where the nice staff in the back will cook it up for you (like Jade used to do), and serve it to you in a hot broth of your choice of flavor (I had the new Spicy broth, delicious). It’s like a cross between what Jade used to do and phở, but either way just delicious. I was very pleased.
I went with a group of 6 and had no problems getting seating, and they easily split our check up at the front. Everyone in our party left satisfied. :)
Definitely recommend!

If your looking for inexpensive good sushi, they has excellent variety of freshly cooked sushi
another part of their unique buffet includes the noodle bar where you can make your meal and have them cook it for you as you would like
Their Waitresses and waiters are extremely nice, they always remember you when you come back in

This is TryYaki’s second location in Lawrence, and the first with a dining room. This location is a change from their original 23^rd Street drive-​up and delivery location, in that this restaurant offers a Chinese-​food buffet, a sushi buffet, and a phở bar.
The Chinese-​food buffet is the typical fare, with General Tso’s chicken, crab rangoon, eggrolls, and sundry other dishes. The big stand out for me was the pot-​sticker-​style dumplings. Though they’re deep-​fried and crispy instead of the traditional pan-​fried and steamed, the filling more than made up for the difference in external texture — a rich and flavorful pork mixture. I didn’t try many of the other items on the Chinese buffet, but the crab rangoon (a personal favorite) fell rather flat, perhaps lacking in the scallion-​garlic mixture that is usually expected. My wife said the eggrolls were similarly boring. Since the Chinese-​food buffet was not the primary focus of our attention, we didn’t go into any further detail on any of the other dishes.
The sushi buffet is a selection of 10+ roll-​type sushi items, ranging from California rolls, to some sort or tempura-​covered roll, to other rolls with a variety of fillings. All of the rolls that were on the buffet on my visit were inside-​out style rolls, which seem to be de rigeur for any place doing bulk roll sushi. The sushi was good, though die-​hard sushi enthusiasts would probably be disappointed. As I can typically Hoover down several rolls in one sitting, I was glad for the variety at an affordable price. As always, the buffet also included a substantial bowl of pickled ginger and «wasabi» paste.
Finally, there was the phở bar. Functionally like a typical Mongolian barbeque or salad bar, customers select their meat (s), noodles, and vegetable accompaniments and take the resulting bowl to a window set into the kitchen. There, you tell the cook whether you would like beef, chicken, or vegetable broth. The cook will then stir-​fry up your vegetables and noodes, and then add the requested stock to cook the whole dish to a delightful phở. I had beef and udon noodles with beef stock, and while it was bit salty, it was eminently delicious. My wife had a selection of vegetables and chicken with vegetable stock; the veg stock was a little bland, but the combination of all of the elements made for a tasty and filling dish.
At $ 6.95 for lunch, and $ 8.95 for dinner, I can definitely see myself coming back to TryYaki Noodle & Sushi Buffet many more times, if only just to gorge on another several sushi rolls.