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| - Where do you go when you want some sushi and don't want to go far from home? You go to your neighborhood sushi joint, right? But only after checking the yelp reviews. There weren't many reviews for the sushi and I was a little leery because this place seemed more Asian grill than sushi. I'm coming from the Washington, DC area where they have a great food scene and a huge international community so I wasn't going to put the DC standards on a Charlotte restaurant but I still wanted some decent, if not good sushi. The two front of house people and waitresses were Caucasian and one sushi chef seemed to be Hispanic. I'm not one to discriminate but usually if you go to a sushi place and there are lots of Asians patronizing and working there, you can almost be sure it will be authentic. But, I'm in Charlotte, the demographics here are different, so let me just sit down and order.
The waitresses were efficient enough but not really friendly and not personable at all. We ordered egg drop soup, the pupu platter, calamari, a volcano roll and the surfer roll, I think that is what it was called. The appetizers were really good. Egg drop soup had a nice flavor, though I would have loved to have some lovely, crispy fried noodles to put in them. No one offered them and no one was around for me to ask so I just ate the soup as is. The calamari, rings only, were nicely seasoned and the spicy mayo was a nice accompaniment. I love tentacles but hubby will order calamari, no matter what, wherever we go. The dumplings and egg roll and wontons in the appetizer were nicely seasoned and crispy and the egg rolls seemed to be filled nicely with ingredients other than a bunch of cabbage like you often find. So that's great but I'm really here for the sushi. Here's my problem: The plate comes and I'm looking at it strange because I have never seen sushi served this way. Stacked on top of each other and one with a pile of hot, steaming seafood on top. I don't even know what it was supposed to be because it really tasted like fake crab meat cooked in spicy mayo. So the waitress says, do you know which one is which and then proceeded to point out what each roll was. The second roll, seemed to be lightly coated in tempura batter and fried and it was warm!! Gross!! I've eaten sushi for years! I even made sushi at home and it was pretty killer for my first time and I have never, ever, ever heard of, seen or eaten HOT SUSHI! I even googled it when I got home because I thought that I was missing something and just clueless. The texture and warmth was so off putting, I nearly gagged.
In addition to it's temperature, the one roll with the hot seafood on top was so tiny and so unevenly cut, it looked like Ray Charles was in the kitchen. The other so large and thinly sliced and battered and fried? How could I go so wrong? I was so disgusted and disappointed that the decent appetizers couldn't make up for this atrocity. Yes, I should have just stuck to my usual because I know I'm getting raw fish, rice and nori but I wanted to try something different. Big mistake. Please Charlotte, tell me you have a great sushi restaurant somewhere because this place just wasn't it. If I were ever to go back, it would simply be for the soup and apps! That is all!
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