In the area of overpriced and underwhelming food, Asuka is a rare blue fin tuna belly sashimi among a land of white tuna sashimis.
For a very affordable $23, I ordered a Kame salmon dinner- the equivalent of a bento box.
The salad was my favourite part of the meal. Not to say that the other parts of the bento weren't good, but the salad was just...good enough for me to dedicate this paragraph to. When it was first delivered to our table, I was getting ready to take my earrings off and angrily protest how we received the wrong order. It looked too good to be part of our bento. How dare they tease us with delicious looking food that is not part of our bento. Good thing I'm cheap and planned on eating it anyways to take advantage of their incompetence. Even better when I realized they didn't make a mistake it and it was actually part of our meal. Not your typical iceberg lettuce nonsense, this one was filled with pieces of octopus, shrimp, daikon, real seaweed (no bright green trickery) and generous slices of avocado. Delicious and healthy.
To conclude, Asuka is a great choice for Japanese food in Yorkville. An especially great choice if you feel like getting some value back after spending enough money to feed a small village in Zimbabwe for a year on two pairs of heels.