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| - Glad I tried Japan 49, but won't be back on my own gumption. I had the 2-roll lunch. Came with salad or miso soup. I opted for salad with the classic ginger dressing you see at Japanese restaurants. However, I'm not exaggerating, the salad had so much dressing slopped on top that I couldn't even see the lettuce.
The rolls I ordered were spicy yellowtail and yellowtail jalapeƱo. The latter was very good - until I got a 1.5" bone in one of the last pieces. The spicy yellowtail was good, but not great. The yellowtail pieces were small, and mixed into some sort of spicy mash as opposed to pieces of fish with spicy sauce on them.
My lunchmate ordered the tuna tower app. This was chunks of tuna and chunks of avocado, with a thick spicy sauce covering the chunks. Topped with sesame seeds and smelt roe. This was tasty, but it was 1/3 tuna and 2/3 avocado so seemed imbalanced.
He also ordered Pad Thai. I didn't taste it, but he commented it was dry. He kept adding soy sauce over and over. I will have to say it was a huge portion.
The service was solid and attentive.
Lastly, the restaurant is docked a full star in my review because the ladies' room stall I used was unacceptable. The toilet had not been cleaned, the seat was up which just gave a better view of the uncleanliness, the trash bin in the stall full, and it was out of toilet paper to boot, which of course I learned too late. For a Monday - i.e., the beginning of the week - I found this to be very disconcerting. What condition would the stall be in a few days?? Plus the faucet I used had a broken handle so the water kept shutting off when I was rinsing my hands.
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