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| - We visited Fuji at 3:30pm on a rainy Sunday. It wasn't full, so we had amazing service :-) The place looks nice, smells fine, and is welcoming. There's a big menu both with sushi and hibachi selections printed in an unusual pattern on the menu. It makes hunting for a selection a little disorienting, but we quickly found our rhythm.
This being our first visit, I wanted to try a Bento box so I could get a small sampling of various items. I was told that the Bento boxes were only offered at lunch and that lunch ends at 2:30pm (though that's not written on the menu anywhere). I asked if I could pay a higher price and still get the Bento box and was a little irritated when they refused that option as well. So in my attempt to still get some variety I ordered edamame, California rolls, and a ginger salad with a sweet tea. My fella ordered the teriyaki chicken which came with miso soup and a sweet tea. My edamame was super salty and undercooked for my liking. My salad was tasty, but then again I love ginger so it's hard to mess up a bowl of lettuce with ginger dressing poured over it. My California rolls arrived: they were very thin, heavily rolled in roe and there were only 6 pieces.?. They offered a tiny pile of white ginger and a small pile of cakey green wasabi. I made due, but I wish I'd have known about the roe as I do not enjoy it and would've requested that they leave it off. My sweet tea was great and they kept my glass full :-) My fella's teriyaki chicken arrived on a loudly sizzling platter... a la mexican fajitas?? which we found odd. It was a huge mass of onions with a char-grilled chicken breast cut in strips layered across the onions with 3 pieces of broccoli, 2 baby carrots and syrupy sweet teriyaki poured all over the top... It wasn't nearly as tasty as it sounds. My fella poured the low sodium soy sauce over his bowl of steamed rice and ate that instead. But his sweet tea was also great :-)
So, for $32 (plus $6 tip) we found yet another so-so Japanese place that we won't be going back to. (sigh)
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