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| - Like a previous poster said, their prices are pretty low, but they do reflect their (relatively bad) sushi. I opted for delivery today, so I can't comment on the dine-in experience. Although the delivery was quick (25 minutes for a party of three), my friends and I wondered about the care and attention they put into making the sushi. Some of the rolls we ordered were the Volcano rolls, Spider rolls, Football rolls, and Downtown rolls. We also ordered their tempura dish.
Firstly, the filling to rice ratio was HUGE. By that, I mean there was barely any rice covering the outside of each piece. When the rice wasn't soggy and mushed up, it was hard and deteriorating. Neither my friends nor I could pick up any piece of sushi without chunks of the rice or the fillings falling out.
The entire time, I didn't feel like I was eating sushi because (without realizing it), we'd ordered all non-raw foods for the filling. This meant eel, crab, yam, and tempura shrimp. The yam was harder than usual which led me to believe they were undercooked. As for the smoked salmon? It was FULLY COOKED salmon! Not my cup of tea because I'm used to eating fresh cold sushi, not soggy warm sushi.
The tempura also wasn't the greatest. I usually find myself gorging yam and shrimp tempura and pretty much any kind of tempura, but not this time. The yam tempura weren't the flat orange pieces I was accustomed to, but the thinly sliced french-fry style. Their eggplant were wide, but pushing paper thin. Each time I lifted any tempura piece into my mouth, all I could taste was the oily batter. Even this batter, which should be crispy and crunchy, was soggy and tasteless.
With that said, the first star goes to speedy delivery and the second star goes to the extras that came with our order. We were pleasantly surprised to see two cokes, one small portion of salad, and one small container of miso soup.
They've lost me as a customer though. I've tasted better sushi for the same or a lower price, so why linger?
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