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| - Before I start, let me say that I reeeeally wanted to like this place - after reading the reviews and looking at the pictures (and menu!), I was super excited and wanted to go here right away - unfortunately I was let down, and though I do want to give this place the benefit of the doubt, I just couldn't see what everyone was raving about. The waitresses we had were nice, and we were seating in a booth right away, which I really appreciated. As I was going through the menu, I remembered looking it up online before and being really excited that there was vegetarian gyoza, as it's almost impossible to find literally anywhere. So I ordered that + two other rolls, and the person I was with ordered the dinner bento box with tofu teriyaki. When the gyoza came out first, I was super excited, but after eating half of one, I noticed that it tasted like chicken.
Now look - I'm not a picky vegetarian by any means. I don't really care if meat/veggies are on the same grill, I don't care when my friends eat meat - I just don't like to eat meat myself. After 4 years of being a vegetarian though, I know EXACTLY what meat tastes like because of how many times I've eaten something and immediately my mouth has been like "um... what's this?" So last night I took a bite and my mouth tasted it, and I looked inside and noticed tiny chicken bits. I then made the person I was with (who does eat meat) have a bite as well to make sure I wasn't totally crazy, and he was like "Oh yeah that's definitely chicken". It wasn't a huge deal for me, I just put what I chewed in my napkin and told the waitress. But then the waitress took the plate back to the kitchen, then came back with the same plate and told me that it actually was vegetarian and there was no chicken, and that what I was tasting was the cabbage (???? I guess as a vegetarian I don't know what cabbage tastes like? Not sure). At this point I thought maybe it was just the one I ate, and not all of them, so I took a bite into another one only to find - surprise! - more chicken. At this point I wasn't going to argue again, since they obviously didn't believe me and the chicken was hard to see (since it only seemed to be little bits) but we just left it there for the rest of the meal.
Now the rest of the meal was good; I had the Vegetarian Green Dragon Roll + a small Avocado Roll which was pretty good - it wasn't that different from other stuff I've had (which I partially blame on myself since I normally order the same 5-6 things when I go out for sushi) but they're definitely generous with the portions, and you can tell everything is fresh. Unfortunately I was honestly at a 2 star while I was leaving until the WONDERFUL owner chatted us up afterwards - guys, the reviews don't lie. This woman is like the human embodiment of a ray of sunshine! If I didn't have to pee so bad I probably could've stayed and talked to her all night, and she was so great at making conversation and wishing us back. I really do wish my experience here had been better, and maybe I will try going back again, but the fact that that whole gyoza thing happened and I ended up paying for this plate that I never ended up eating really sucked. Maybe one day....
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