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98 Pounds
$$ | Chinese/Japanese/Sushi

This buffet restaurant packs a one-two punch: steamer tables full of hot Chinese food, nearly every dish you can think of, and cold tables stacked with fat sushi rolls. It's an all-you-can-eat feast, so adjust your quality meters accordingly.

  • Kid-friendly
  • Late night dining
  • No alcohol
  • Wheelchair accessible
  • No personal checks
  • L M - Su /D M - Su
824 W. 98th St.
Bloomington, Minnesota 55420
Phone: 952-881-1088
63.8
out of 100
0.0
out of 10
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WHAT THE CRITICS SAY

Critics' Scoring

Scores will be assigned based on a 0-100 scale broken down as follows:

100 = Perfect
90 = Excellent
80 = Very Good
70 = Good, not Great
60 = High Average
50 = Average
40 = Low Average
30 = Disappointing
20 = Nearly Without Merit
10 = Poor
00 = Worthless
69
Secrets of the City | Jeremy Iggers
06/29/08
There's plenty of fried food, and the fried shrimp and tempura shrimp are heavy on breading light on shrimp, but overall, I'd rate the hot buffet items as better-than-average. But the real novelty here is the cold buffet of all-you-can-eat sushi.
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66
MSPFoodies.com
08/27/08
If you're really hungry, on a tight budget, and want to sample various cuisines, 98 Pounds will work well for you. Personally, we'd rather have a smaller selection of better than average food over the gargantuan buffet.
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65
Mpls.St.Paul Magazine | Steven Brown
11/08
But the buffet also manages to offer several premium items, such as crab claws and crayfish, as well as the aforementioned sushi-mostly maki rolls of surimi creatively done in several incarnations that are pleasantly acceptable with a dab of soy and wasabi.
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62
Metro | Mecca Bos Williams
I repeat: this is assembly-line sushi, but that's not stopping the masses from going at it like a kid at a gumball machine with a fistful of quarters. The tastiest were the eel rolls and a spicy tuna affair that was more like a sushi finger-sandwich than a roll-and quite addictive at that.
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60
City Pages | James Norton
07/21/08
The place has more high points than you might expect from a restaurant of its humble genre, and it's worth a carefully executed visit if you happen to be in Bloomington.
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