Wok

I really try to avoid buffet places as you never know the quality of the food. This was however not the case at Wok — their buffet was fresh and looked so delicious. They have a big selection of sushi, wok dishes and salads but the great part was the raw seafood you could take and have them cook for you a la plancha as you wait. I had delicious crab claws, prawns and razor clams. I had three servings of different things in total and a Coke to drink and my total was € 13 — amazing! The buffet is € 10 for lunch and € 14 for dinner! Totally worth it! The service however was a bit slow and they took a long time to get our check — but overall a great place I will visit again!

Primer wok que visito en mi vida. Comida mediterránea, bien de precio (domingos 15 €, días de cada día 10 €). La comida no es excelente, pero sí buena. Recomendable.

Un wok más del montón.
He ido varias veces y ha tenido algún día mejor. Las ultimas veces la presencia y calidad de la comida era un poco triste. Poca variedad de sushis, la comida preparada con un aspecto bastante pobre y el tema plancha y wok con poca gracia.
Las primeras veces me sorprendió la gran variedad de sushis (makis, nigiris, california, rebozados) y las últimas veces solamente habían nigiris de salmón.
Creo que no volvería a repetir.

The food was okay… The sushi was with great variety, well made and tasted good, even the banana sushi! Nice idea!
Enough choice, also for a vegetarian.

It is not Japanese and not Chinese. Whatever it is, it can definitely not be called good.
The restaurant calls itself «Wok Japonese», even so the stuff is Chinese.
First of all you are forced to order something to drink otherwise you are not allowed to eat there, an information nowhere written.
The food there is an All-​You-​Can Eat Buffet consisting of a strange mixture between Chinese, Japanese and Spanish food (Sushi, Chinese Dumplings, Paella, Seafood).
The seafood seemed more of the frozen kind of and of low quality, which you can buy in some supermarkets and than have been unfrozen some time beforehand.
The sushi quality was also on the low end.
They also offer some yoghurt and ice cream as a dessert which is also of the lowest quality you can find.
What they do in this so called restaurant hardly can be called cooking. It is more like defrosting and heating /​frying prepackaged food.
If you want to eat well than go somewhere else. If you just want to fill your stomach as much as you can and don’t care about the taste at all, than this might be a choice.

A good place for japanese food.
You can find inside, sushis, fresh fish, and many different things, noodles, rice, vegetables, and even candy :)
The price is around 15 € for the dinner or during the weekend. The food is unlimited and good!
The place is not very intimate and beautiful. But it’s a good place for people with a small budget!

I guess my Asian food craving continued, as a few days later, my friends and I decided to go to an all you can eat Japanese restaurant called Japones Wok near Arc de Triomf. It seems that this metro station area has a lot of Asian food. Anyways, for lunch, you can have all you can eat for 9.50 euros. Not bad, considering you’re in Spain. However, the little trick is that you must order a drink as well. And their drinks cost at least 2 euros, even for a bottle of water. You end up paying over 10 euros for your meal because of that. And to think that all you can eat places in Richmond are bad sometimes… well yea, let’s just be grateful for that. At Restaurante Japones Wok, which is considered a very good Japanese restaurant in Barcelona, it really isn’t just Japanese food. You get a mix of Japanese and Chinese food. I haven’t really seen any Japanese locals in Barcelona for the four months I stayed, but learned that most Japanese restaurants are operated by Chinese. So here we have some Chow Mein, Fried Rice, Calamari, Beef Stir Fry, Assorted Grilled Seafood, Seaweed Salad, Gyoza and Sushi. There’s actually a lot to choose from, and they even have a section of dim sum… For sushi, there actually isn’t a lot to choose from, and each piece is very dainty and small. I almost feel embarrassed if I take more than two of each as they don’t put out a lot each time. The fish is definitely not as fresh as the ones in Vancouver, but they are bearable. What I liked about this place was they also have all you can eat teppanyaki. That’s something that wouldn’t be as common. You choose a variety of seafood, meet, kebabs, and vegetables and place it on a plate. Then you line up, and the chef will grill your items right in front of you. Pretty cool, and the seafood here is quite fresh. I also ordered steak, but I have learned that their steak in Spain is basically a thin slice of beef. It almost reminds me of pork because it is so thin, and after grilling it, it becomes super tough. Not juicy like the ones back at home.
But if you’re looking for some Asian food, give Japones Wok a try. It won’t be authentic, but it can satisfy your cravings in the meantime. Also, they have a variety of candies and gummies along their buffet too! Yes… I ended up eating a lot candy instead…

Para lo que suelen ser los buffets japoneses, que ni son japoneses ni nada, este en concreto resulta más nipón de lo esperado. Nos encontramos con una oferta pensada para todos los públicos, para los fundamentalistas del sushi, para los talibanes de lo vegetariano y también para los que adoran una buena selección de carnes que unos gustosos camareros de ojos rasgados nos cocinarán según una tradición milenaria.
Por supuesto, este WOK no es una delicatessen, pero está muy por encima de la media, de lo que a comida rápida y a granel se refiere. Es además un lugar espacioso, en el que cabe mucha gente, perfecto para grupos hambrientos de orientalidad.

Was tun, wenn man am Ostersonntag um 12:30 Uhr seinen Bus an die Costa Brava verpasst hat und überraschend 2 Stunden Zeit hat?
Genau! Man sucht sich ein nettes Lokal, macht das Beste aus der Zeit und zieht das Mittagessen vor. Leider haben um diese Zeit alle Lokale zu — alle? Nein — direkt am Arco de Triomf gibt’s diesen neuen «Japaner» (in Wirklichkeit sind die Betreiber Chinesen, aber was solls.).
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Wenn man von draussen reinschaut, wirkt das WOK recht dunkel. Die Karte ist einfach: All you can eat — vom Grill, vom Teppanyaki-​Grill, Sushi, vom warmen Buffet und/​oder vom Dessert-​Buffet.
Preis: Unter der Woche 9,53EUR p.P., an Sonn– und Feiertagen 14,80EUR p.P.
Der Innenraum ist recht effektvoll beleuchtet — teilweise indirekt — was zusammen mit der schwarzen Einrichtung und dem umlaufenden breiten orangenen Streifen ziemlich loungig wirkt. Nett.
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Leider wird der erste Eindruck durch einige Details wieder etwas relativiert — schlecht isolierte Fenster, die mit Klebeband abgedichtet wurden, die Stuhlbeine, die in komischen «Gummischuhen» stecken um den Boden nicht zu zerkratzen (?) etc.
Nach der Getränkebestellung, gehts ans Buffet: Die Grill– oder Teppanyakigrill-​Zutaten auf den Teller häufen und auf die Theke stellen und die Wartezeit mit irgendwas vom warmen Buffet oder Sushi überbrücken. Die Sushiauswahl ist recht übersichtlich: Einige Makis, Lachs-​Sashimi (also eigentlich nur roher Lachs), zwei Roll-​Varianten (eine davon mit süßer Banane — das war merkwürdig) und Thunfisch-​Sushi.
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Naja — meine Grill-​Sachen waren gut und zart. Keine merkwürdigen Soßen und der ganze Kochbereich in der Mitte des Lokals, wirken sehr sauber (ok — das Restaurant ist auch ganz neu.).
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Das Gleiche gilt auch für den Teppanyaki-​Grill. Die Auswahl ist jeweils etwas beschränkt, aber dafür sehen die Sachen alle frisch aus: Gemüse, Meeresfrüchte, Fisch, Fleisch.
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Im Anschluss hat mich das Dessert-​Buffet etwas überrascht: Neben Mäusespeck und Gummibärchen, gibts auch Mousse au Chocolat und Fruchtjoghurt (von Danone) und «selbstgemachten Vanillepudding von so einer Art Dr.Oetker. Hm — was zählt ist wohl der gute Wille… ausserdem sind da noch einige Früchte.
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Alles in Allem ein recht günstiges Mittagessen — und eigentlich wars gar nicht so schlecht.
FAZIT:
Nicht besonders aufregendes, asiatisches Restaurant. Nettes Interieur. Günstiger Preis. All-​you-​can-​eat. Qualität ist in Ordnung. Wenn man grad mit Bärenhunger aus dem Zoo kommt — oder grad an der Estacio del Nort seinen Bus verpasst hat, keine schlechte Wahl.