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| - If you want a cheap filling meal with not much expectation, Hanabi is the right place for you.
Hanabi is one of the longest standing Japanese restaurant in the area, used to provide cheap hearty meal, sadly, this place has gone downhill over the years.
The food here used to look like the pictures in the menu. Now they are very different, sometimes I can't even tell if what I got is actually what I ordered. Each meal comes with miso soup, a small bowl of delicious congee(so good), small lettuce salad, some edamame and a piece of salmon tempura with tofu. That's a lot of appetizer, which make up for the not so impressive sushi, in fact their appetizers are my favorite part of the meal.
Since I only had $10.50 cash with me today I ordered a$6.95 California rolls with sushi combo. It was very filling. I got one salmon tempura hand roll, 6 pieces of cali rolls, 5 pieces of salmon sushi and 1 salmon tempura roll and salmon roll. As you can see in the photo, the fish/avocado in the rolls are very very tiny. The rolls don't look appetizing, as if the chef knows the people who come here are not looking for quality food, might as well not to put any effort in it. To be honest, the Cali rolls tasted bland, and very fishy from the tobiko. And seriously, make them look more like rolls, they are almost shapeless
I remember my first visit here being amazed by the price and good food. There's barely any change to the price here as the ingredients are getting more and more expensive now, decrease on food quality seems reasonable.
Food_ 2/5 for sushi and maki, the sushi from loblaws are actually better, sadly. 5/5 for the congee tho
Service_4/5 fast and quick
Enviroment_ 3/5 as I mentioned, this restaurant opened for a long time, it is old and tiny, tightly packed tables
I would come back, only when I don't feel like cooking. Good value, decent food, why not.
Ps, cash only, there's an ATM in the convenient store few steps away.
DO NOT expect the food to look like the pictures on the menu!
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