12 Moons Asian Bistro

My husband and I enjoyed our experience here. The atmosphere is inviting and classy, but I cannot speak for the view, being it was dark during our visit. (Yay winter.) Yes, there is an automatic 15% charge for gratuity, which would have polarized me against them completely if our service hadn’t been up to par. (I think service can suffer when the gratuity is forced, as it eliminates the desire of the server to excel at their position, or compete for excellent tips.)
The food is some of the best I have had, and I am picky. Our meal started with complimentary taro root chips — a new thing for me. Some of the chips were a bit greasy, but the flavor was delicious. Our waiter Tony made some recommendations that we went with, and we were not sorry. (Tony got more than what his management foisted upon us, because we tip what is earned, and he hit a home — run with the bases loaded.) He suggested the calamari, and we were not disappointed. They tasted fresh, and were cooked to perfection, with a fabulous salty, sweet, and spicy flavor we couldn’t get enough of. The teriyaki salmon my husband had was succulent, and my seafood chow fun was so yummy I over-​ate. We even enjoyed the tea, and we are not generally fond of teas.
We intend on visiting again in the future, when next we get down to that area.

This place has good Asian Fusion food and huge portions. The décor is sophisticated and there is a great view. Service can vary from excellent to poor. It’s inside the casino so there is an automatic 15% gratuity charge.
Remember that or you may end up tipping twice.
Depending on the chef of the night levels of spiciness can vary. As someone who doesn’t like it really spicy it’ best to notify the waiter when you order.
How well the dishes come out seem to vary over visits. We go often and can tell.

Don’t waste your money with this place. It is inside a Casino, it is very expensive and non-​appetizing. The server barely spoke English none of us could understand him. My mom ordered phở with veggies and she got this clear broth with white noodles and no veggies, it was like water with noodles. I got the duck Phở and I have asked for no noodles so it was a canned beef broth with green onion and some salty duck in it. The poky bowl was a bowl of rice with some fresh fish on it. The other two sushi rolls ordered were OK. Never going back there again.

Ate here a few weeks back. Ordered phở. lukewarm. Sent them back and got new, hot phở. Nothing special, its phở. But they served lukewarm phở. Eh.
Place looked nice inside, but i didnt go in for ambience.

Not good. Great décor and beautiful view. I loved this place when it was a lounge.
The menu was hard to read. Entrees were divided based on the type of cusine but still very difficult to navigate. Layout was a designer’s nightmare.
Ordered spring rolls for an app. They arrived with no color and boiling hot on the inside. They were whitish yellow. I can only assume they were cooked in a microwave. Filling was mushy and blah. These come in frozen and are not made fresh.
Ordered teriyaki chicken and chicken chow mein to split with hubby. First off, it took me a few bites to figure it out but I finally did… the chicken is not just frozen but completely altered by the manufacturer and doesn’t have the texture of chicken. It is like that precooked and frozen chicken you can purchase from Costco. It slices like a loaf of bread and is very dense with no texture… very rubbery. Dense… no pull. If you tried to shred this stuff you would end up with crumbs. The chicken in both of the dishes was bleach white. No color from a sear or grill or pan or anything. This chicken never hit a pan or open flame. Microwave.
The teriyaki sauce was blah was very little flavor. The kimchi served with it was from a can. Hardly any flavor. The chow mein was disgusting. The fried noodles were awful and not fried fresh. It was filled with the rubbery bleached chicken and had… and I’m not exaggerating here… NO FLAVOR. You know how lays comes out with wacky flavored chips every year? They usually nail the flavor of whatever they are trying to make. Pickles, rubben, truffle fries, mac n cheese whatever. Well if they wanted to make a «no flavor» chip, they can just use 12 Moons recipe for chow mein. It was so weird. Both of us had this awful «no taste» in our mouth the whole night. So weird.
I understand the gratuity being added automatically with these prices and atmosphere but if the food tastes bland and never actually goes in a pan… you just can’t do that. Not once did I see a chef (who all were in plain view) grill or cook anything. Didn’t hear flames or pans clanging or anything. Why have your kitchen fully visible if you aren’t going to cook in it?
You can’t swing a dead cat in WA without slamming into a teriyaki joint that is decent. Seriously? Who is managing this stuff? They’ve eaten Asian food before, right?
Never going back. Nope.

The décor was lovely. It’s an intimate restaurant and when we arrived there was a pianist playing and singling, which created a fun vibe.
We sat at the bar and the bartender was super friendly. He immediately gave us a basket of taro chips and took our order.
I ordered a Goose Island IPA and the chicken teriyaki donburi, served with kimchi and two kinds of picked radish over rice. The kimchi and radish were good but the chicken had a pasty white appearance, soggy texture and was covered in an overly sweet sauce. I wouldn’t order it again.
There were other Asian noodle and meat dishes as well as sushi on the menu that may be better options to order.

Good food, quiet atmosphere, pricy as always with the Snoqualmie casino. This place and the falls buffet have an impressive line of food, but expensive dining experience.

Service really sucked waited over 30 mins for my entrée. Two servers and ten tables sat!

So, if you don’t want to eat at the buffet, the only options for ala cart is the deli or 12 Moons Asian Bistro. I’ve been here several times with my mother (who use to frequent the casinos from Auburn to Marysville). She mostly pays for us as she always had tons of comp. It’s a beautiful place to eat as it has lots of windows with views of the Snoqualmie Range.
First of all, the table service is pretty consistent with nice servers, especially the one we had this last visit. His name was Kevin and he was willing to get in trouble to take all of our to-​go orders post meal (so my mom would spend all her comp and never return as gambling is bad bad bad). Also, I don’t know what you’re complaining about chef’s! We obviously like your food (even though the portions are backwards, who give lots of rice and little bit of meat! You guys apparently!), and since you obviously have a large take-​out clientele, perhaps not getting mad at your wait staff and bring it up with management to have all large orders be placed at a take-​out window… Work that out, but until then, we have a right to order whatever we want, and how many we want. Don’t take it out on the wait staff, and if you don’t like to take large orders during busy times, make sure the wait staff tell us or have it written somewhere…
Ok, on to the important part, the food. Well, first of all the prices are decent. Some of the food offered isn’t worth the price tag, but most of them are reasonable. We started off with Shrimp Tempura and Calamari with «fire sauce» which wasn’t spicy as I had expected. We had ordered a lot of things: Seafood Chow Mein and Hong Kong Style Noodles, both with crispy noodles. I ordered the duck with the steamed pocket buns and plum sauce, chinese green beans, an array of sushi, Seafood Fried Rice. The food is great! Price though, again are spendy. I would recommend getting the chinese green beans, i beleive it had black bean sauce and fried garlic, simple yet delicious. Also they Seafood Fried Rice, they have large shrimps and an array of crab, and other things. It just looks like a confetti of seafood with large shrimps.
We had ordered ALOT of food to go! I ordered a Rainbow Roll and a Unagi-​Don for my boyfriend and a Salmon Teriyaki and Chicken Teriyaki-​Don for myself. They give you a whole box full of rice, with an extremely small portion of protein. It was pretty disappointing. I mean, who would eat that much rice with a barely hand-​sized chicken/​eel/​salmon fillet. My boyfriend’s unagi-​don alone was 21.95! Ok, 12 Moons, if you’re not going to give at least two eel fillets, cut the damn price and give only half of the rice in the box! Less filler more meat please for the outrageous prices you’re charging. That also goes for my salmon and chicken teriyaki don! If you want your monies worth, don’t bother with the rice dishes. Stick with the chinese food and sushi if you want a good portion size for the price you paid.
The other stuff is just typical chinese food, hard to screw up unless you are just a horrible chef. 12 Moons is nice because of it’s view and some of their food offerings. I wouldn’t spend my own money here, but if you have comp, and you have to spend it because you have a lot of it go here. With the ridiculous prices you’re sure to get rid of them quickly. Other than that, I wouldn’t use my hard earned money to pay the high price tags on most of their offerings. Super disappointing and what a waste of a beautiful space!

This is my second time here with my boss. I love it here. Food is amazing and the service is wonderful. And the view whiling dinning is amazing.

I have to say, the prices are pretty darn fair, especially in a casino and with the nice views and dining experience. Most standard dishes were around $ 11. If you order the fancier meals, the price will double which is still not that bad in comparison to other standard restaurants.
First off, I didn’t know that there were such great views from the casino. I was so used to being on the casino floor that I never noticed they don’t have any windows facing out! This restaurant shows where we are in the area of mountainous beauty of Washington State. This place was clean and classy and the atmosphere was a delightful freshness that was unexpected.
The service was prompt and friendly as well as easy to find. Great layout and generous on staffing. Most of the staff seemed very helpful and with pleasure which made our dining experience that much better.
The foods: I am not one that enjoy fusion type foods so I was taken a back when reading the options I had to order. But when it arrived, we were pleasantly surprised on the quality and authenticity of what we had ordered since we all ordered delicacies from different parts of the world all in one restaurant. The phở broth was tasty, the kimchee was ripe, and the beef was tender. We even added some sushi which didn’t taste fishy like the cut costs kind of places and well presented. Rice is always available here which I love hearing.
Overall, I’m a fan! See you guys again soon and I will order more different dishes!

Even worse and it has been 2 and ½ years. The ambiance of the restaurant is great (part of the casino’s old bar). High ceilings and beautiful décor and a view of the mountains out of the window. Beyond that, not awful. Food was not edible. Nigiri Sushi especially Scallops and Ginger made me feel sick. The chicken yakitori was pink in the middle. I showed the manager the food and he wanted to argue with me and said all of their food is great and fresh. The sushi bar is so low that you feel you are sitting in a hole. The chef’s had badges that said sushi cook not sushi chef and did not seem to be professionally trained and hardly could or did talk to the customers. The low seats made it hard.
The menu was a disappointment. Limited Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese choices. Either food with big volume or very limited. More sushi choices would have been great and some dim sum like Chinese food. The rest seemed too large of volume. Drink menu too was a disappointment. Beer choice and Sake choice was not that great. No Asashi, Sapparo or Tsingtao for example. Sakes seemed cheaper ones and sweet. No Otokoyama or better quality sakes.
Last minus is the restaurant automatically adds a 15% gratuity. Absurb and presumptuous. I thought a tip was based on the service. They are assuming the service and the food merited this automatic tip. It wasn’t even neared that level. I personally will not come back there until some of these things change, and this automatic gratuity is removed. I made a mistake to return, No improvements or concern for the customer. 20 minutes each time to get service or pay bill and they were not busy. I don’t know where their cashier is in the casino but it is not near.

Amazing wok dishes
Fresh sushi
Outrageous prices!!!
Charging for sauces??? What happened here? This place used to be one of my top choices but ever since September of 2014, there is a different feel to everything at the restaurant. I am not sure what has happened but something is extremely off.

I’ve been here quite a few times. The service is always great but the food ranges from just okay to good. They always serve spiced taro chips as a snack, which are always nice to munch on, they’re seasoned with a seasoned salt that is also a bit sweet! Today, they were overly greasy though (they were all shiny)…but we mentioned it to the waitress and she brought us out a new fresh batch!
Here’s a breakdown of our order:
[Beef Chow Fun] — It tastes similar to what you’d get at a Chinese restaurant, good overall, but some of the thicker noodles are bit bland since the middle layer (s) don’t pick up any flavor of the sauce.
[Hong Kong Fried Rice] — We usually don’t order fried rice at restaurants so we decided to give it a try. It was well seasoned and had quite a bit of meat but I found it to be more on the salty side.
[Asian Chicken Salad] — it was surprisingly spicy… possibly because it had a strong ginger taste; a bit much for my liking.
[Sushi — California Roll, Shibumi, Flying Dragon & Spicy Tuna] — I always enjoy the sushi here. I’d recommend all of these, but especially the Shibumi which is basically a Shrimp Tempura roll with crab and unagi sauce on top.
My family and I have also ordered the Donburi dishes before, which I’m not a huge fan of. They fill the bowl with so much rice — probably enough for three people — and also serve pickled vegetables on top with the meat. The vinegar from the veggies is overpowering to me and it ends up soaking into the rice. I would like to see a hot veggies served instead — to me, the pickled ones seem out of place.
I’m going to give a shout-​out to the BBQ Duck! Perfectly tender and the salty and sweet flavors are well-​balanced. We never have leftovers of this one!
Overall, if I’m looking for a Japanese restaurant, this would not be my first choice, but some dishes make it worth the visit… mainly the sushi and duck. However, I do prefer 12 Moons over the Falls Buffet.

10 of us decided to go to the Casino for dinner, gambling, and the great gatsby on New Years Eve! We had never ate at the casino before so we just listers to recommendations, boy I’m glad we did!
We were all greeted with a smile and waited on like royalty! We sat in the private room, Where a Christmas tree was lit, and beautiful lit chandlers above us! It was beautiful! Best yet, the food was impeccable!!! Most of us got the Mongolian beef and chicken pad Thai– the portions are HUGE and the price is outstanding! My pad Thai must of been 10 servings at least and it was $ 11. Very well priced appetizers AND drinks!
This place is definitely a 5 star resteraunt, from the service, the atmosphere, the food, the price, EVERYTHING!

It was a typical Sunday — my parents and I decided to pay a quick visit to the casino for lunch & a little bit of fun :).
We arrived around 11am and the restaurant wasn’t busy at all — granted it was a beautiful day outside. The hostess seated us near the window and what a great view it was! The restaurant has such a sleek and modern vibe. I loved the place setting in the middle and couldn’t get over how simplistic and beautiful it was.
We ended up ordering the calamari, mongolian chicken, a seafood udon, an unagi roll, and the seoul bento box. It didn’t take long before our order arrived. There was a mix up and my bento box order wasn’t placed correctly so they actually let us keep the incorrect order while we waited for the correct one to come out. They also forgot the unagi roll but we’re glad they did because we ended up having too much food.
The calamari was delicious! It had the right amount of crunch and spice! The udon broth was on the sweeter side but all of the seafood seemed to be cooked perfectly! My mom said the noodles had a chewy consistency. The mongolian chicken was great and so was the chicken katsu that had come with the incorrect order. The seoul bento box is described as having «kobe beef» and when it actually came out, it wasn’t what we are usually used it. It turned out to be a steak with some sort of «kobe-​inspired» sauce on top. It was the only thing I’d probably not order again.
We received wonderful service here and will definitely be back.
P. S. Our casino run wasn’t so bad as well :).

It was my first time coming here and it was not worth the 35 – 45 minute wait. It’s a mix Asian cuisine which include Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese and Chinese so I was a bit stumped on what to order. I’m a big pad Thai fan so I decided to try that. Let me tell you… The pad Thai here did not taste anything like pad Thai. Do not let the pictures on here fool you. It may look very similar to pad Thai but it did not taste anything like it. It was bland. Very bland. If you were blind folded you wouldn’t even consider it was any sort of thai food. More like some amaeture Chinese stir fry. Telling the waiter that it doesn’t taste like pad Thai and it was very hard to eat. He replied with «of course it’s disgusting. You order the most disgusting dish on the menu». Sorry I will not ever even consider coming back here.
If you were already seated. My advice to you is to only choose the Japanese food. It’s atleast decent enough to be consume.
Disgusting food and disgusting service. Bye ~

food: ordered the spider roll, oriental chicken salad, chomolungma avalanche, matcha molten truffle cake. the spider roll was awful. i had the end piece, which is my favorite piece. you cant taste any of the flavors from the soft shell crab and the worst part, its not even crispy anymore. it was soggy like it has been sitting out for awhile. the other roll the chomo avalanche was a bit better. the sauce on top was fair better on its own than as a whole of the roll. the truffle cake was great though. they warmed up the cake so the texture between hot and cold make the dessert that much better. the thing was totally worth it was all the complimentary taro chips. i think we went through a couple baskets. they also serve matcha tea too, a nice touch. ***2/​5
service: our server was great. they kept the chips coming and refilling our tea pots often. ***5/​5
ambiance: looks super fancy inside. there really are 12 moons on the ceiling. classy and away from the crowd outside. totally somewhere you can go if you hit the jackpot outside. ***4/​5
price: based on the food… nope. nope. there are a lot great places throughout seattle that can give you way better quality food at half the price spent. but then you really pay for the ambiance and for the high rollers to spend the money. i will pay money for good food, but this was not. ***1/​5

Apparently, given the other reviews, the hot foods are not worth ordering.
But what is? The sashimi! I was shocked when my dad suggested we come here for sashimi but I’m really glad I went along.
We made reservations and were promptly seated when we arrived. Though it was dark outside, I could see that the tall windows that span the entire far wall would provide a great view during the day time.
Our server was awesome and when we asked questions about the wine he couldn’t answer, he made sure to go find out. And then we were given taro chips to start, which we really enjoyed — crispy, slightly sweet, and different. (However, the first batch was much better than the overly-​greasy second batch).
We ordered the wonton soup to begin the meal, and not usually being a fan of wonton soup, I found their preparation delightful — light, savory, and warm.
For dinner, we ordered the Large Sashimi plate which consisted of Yellow Fin tuna, Atlantic Salmon, Yellowtail, Escolar, Hokkaido Scallop, Salmon Roe & Octopus (about three pieces of each) for $ 47.95. The sashimi was really, really good. No, seriously… really good. The thick cuts of fish were presented over ice and unlike most places, I was able to taste the distinct flavors of each fish. I can’t express how surprised I was by the quality (especially considering this place is inside the Sno Casino).
We also tried the spicy tuna rolls and eel rolls but those were just okay and probably priced too high considering what they were.
For dessert, we ordered the banana spring rolls and the green tea dragon roll. Fun and creative concepts that completely missed the mark.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Skip the hot foods and desserts. Order the sashimi.

The capacious 12 Moons Asian Bistro replaces Kindai Sushi as it takes over the former night club (Club Sno?) with tremendous renovations. The sushi has not changed one bit, which isn’t a surprise as the same chefs are manning the kitchen. The menu expanded to include more sushi options, rice bowls and such. The menu pricing, drastically modified, when observed closely, makes no damn sense. Take for example, a meatless, vegetarian phở, demands $ 9 while getting a phở with beef is closer to $ 19 or $ 20. Same concept for the pad thai; veggie tofu pad thai is $ 10, the meat variety is at $ 20. With no rhyme, reason or rationale of how they structured their prices for the aforementioned, I am «forced» to choose no meat for Pad Thai just to save 50% as there is no way I am adding meat for $ 10. The sushi rolls, for the most part, stay in the more reasonable range of $ 6-​$ 12.
The food itself is moderately tolerable. In the bar area, a basket of taro and sweet potato chips, IF you get the less oily, top of the pile scooped, basket, can be a good start. The Pad Thai and the rice bowls (Duck Don and the Chicken Katsu-​Don) so far provides a half-​decent solution for dinner and are the best bet, just remember to get the hot sauce/​soy sauce to add flavor. I am not confident that the phở is any better than when they were Kindai Sushi & Bar.
Update Jan 2013:
A restructured menu featuring lower prices now available. They have been VERY receptive to feedback and it has improved my experience. I have raised the rating up a star.