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| - I took my partners here for a special dinner. We decided we hadn't had sushi in a while, and this was the closest place.
FOOD we ordered:
-1 order of the shrimp tempura appetizer. It was like $7 and had only 4 pieces of shrimp. Not a good deal.
-1 vegetable tempura appetizer. The vegetable tempura was a better deal, $5 for around six larger pieces of tempura. Sweet potato, bell pepper, broccoli, eggplant.
- 1 rock n roll ROLL. Very tasty and sweet. Like a dragon roll in reverse.
- 1 dragon roll. Very tasty and sweet. Exact ingredients as a rock n roll roll.
- 1 first date roll. This was the star of the show! It was the table favorite. Crunchy tempura shrimp inside, spicy tuna outside. Smothered in sweet bbq eel sauce.
- 1 rainbow roll, also known as a caterpillar roll, where I am from. It's primarily various raw fish, avocado, and crab inside. It was just okay. Good enough. Better with a little wasabi.
- 1 Pittsburgh roll. What the hell even was this roll? It was just crab paste or something. It was boring.
- 1 spicy tuna roll. It was creepy how grayish pink it was. Spicy and fishy. Two of the three of us liked it a lot.
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A note about the SOY SAUCE: don't use it! Something tasted really, really off about it. It seemed gross and not flavorful. I couldn't make it taste better with wasabi-- I've never had such strangely bad soy sauce before. Luckily, I ordered rolls that mainly had other elements to moisten them, so it was fine.
Ambience- the place was empty on a Saturday around 6pm. Seemed like the family who runs it was just hanging out at the bar. It's not an upscale establishment. The bathroom smelled like someone accidentally dumped a whole bottle of bleach, and the eating area also smelled faintly of bleach, as a result.
Service. We were quickly given water and our server, a femme with glasses, was very attentive and polite.
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Overall, for sushi, it was just okay. I've lived in California and Hawaii, and have high hopes and standards of sushi. Some of the rolls here are overrated and overpriced. If you can learn what the good deals are here, or if money is no issue, it's an okay place for sushi for Pittsburgh.
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