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I've been to two Tairyo locations: one on Xindong lu, the other in the Sanlitun Village. Unfortunately, they each lack where the other delivers.
While the older branch on Xindong lu managed to deliver food of decent to good quality with an abysmal service, where every order has to be asked for with increasingly sharper tone for at least three time, the new spot in Sanlitun features a great service... but the food was simply horrendous.

It's clear that on some level Tairyo always "delivers": you go with a nice large group and you're usually too drunk to pay attention to unpleasant details at about half an hour into the dinner and you usually end up having a blast anyways. While it was still the "Tairyo experience" to show to friends visiting for the first time, the last dinner in Sanlitun marked a new low, quality-wise.

While our waiter was a nice, active and humorous fellow who did not "forget" ONE SINGLE item we blabberingly asked him for, the quality of the food was immediately a disappointment: from sushi to sashimi, from marinated raw beef to salad, simply everything was still half frozen, in a way that the sushi or beef was close to break upon biting and you could hear the ice-crystals crunch between your teeth, leaving you with a nice mouthful of cold water at every single bite. Disgusting.
Upon complaints to our waiter, we were told that unfortunately "it's just like this...".

The following dishes that involved the iron plate and our cook were, as usual, fun to watch and absolutely edible, with some decent elements, like fish or lamb. Also, the decor of the new restaurant in Sanlitun has a nice, warm, heavy wood-and-metal feel to it, but for the new price of 238 RMB, you'd expect an improvement in food quality, not this big a decrease. But it's Beijing.. and I expect investments to go into quality. F*#k me, right?

After a disappointingly flameless banana-ice cream I went on a trip to the boys' room, where I encountered two cooks, happily doing number one and loudly blowing snot out their noses, without washing their hands before heading back to cut the next round of watery, frozen salmon.

You're a dirty little slut, Tairyo. I wish I could say we won't meet again... but you know how these things go.

Fantastic Review!

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You're a dirty little slut, Tairyo. I wish I could say we won't meet again... but you know how these things go.
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Whoa whoa whoa, I'm calling shennanigans on this review.

Visiting Tairyo and complaining about cold fish wrapped in seaweed is akin to taking a dirty little slut home and complaining that she doesn't snuggle very well.