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| - We have been here several times and every time its a great meal. It is a bit on the expensive side but its the best sushi I've had in Pittsburgh. I moved here from Honolulu where you can get good to excellent sushi pretty much on every other corner. This is about as good as sushi gets here in the midwest.
The menu is huge. There's a large selection of Chinese and Japanese as well as sushi. We've never tried any of the Chinese food, thought it always looks good. It has many vegetarian choices plus they can make any meat dish with soy protein, which is cool. I'm not a vegetarian but its always nice to see.
The service could be better. There's always a language barrier, which I don't mind. Living in Honolulu, I was quite used to speaking with others who might not share my first language. Its not that bad when I can't understand the server that well. As long as my food gets to me how I ordered it, everyone's happy. But we have had experiences when the server did not understand us well enough to take our orders. They are always very friendly with smiles and water glasses that are always full.
In addition to the regular menu, there's always in insert with the Sushi Chef's specialties. There are a variety of salads, special appetizers and sushi. We've tried a few of the salads and they're delicious (though very expensive, 5 bucks for a side salad basically). The specialty rolls are good though they're expensive as well, 10-15 bucks a piece.
Their regular sushi menu has plenty of decently priced rolls. Veggie rolls are all under 5 bucks. And the rest are between 5 and 8 bucks. You can get a large platter of sushi with 30 pieces or so for 30 dollars easily. Like their regular menu, there's a large variety of vegetarian choices.
This time we got 4 maki rolls, one hand roll and some sashimi. Like I said, I used to live in Honolulu. The restaurant I worked at was delivered fresh ahi daily by a fisherman. He would mark on the styrofoam contained when the fish was pulled out the water. The fish we served was rarely ever more than 24 hours away from swimming in the water.
I've tried sashimi at a few other places here in Pittsbrugh....Yokoso and Nakama. I'm not sure what those two places are doing wrong but The Dumpling House is doing it right. The fish was as delicate as it was delicious.
We also got one of the speciality salads..about six stalks of asparagus sliced on a bias drenched in sesame oil and mayonnaise. It was tasty but over-priced...5 bucks for six stalks of asparagus.
I also got a wonton soup. While I haven't had alot of wonton soup in Pittsburgh, their soup was great. I got two strawberry sized wontons in a clear, tasty broth. The wonton wrapper was light, not chewy. There was plenty of pork inside the wonton and they add shredded pork on top of the soup itself.
I did not know they had dim sum. I will most certainly have to go in sometime to try it!
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