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| - Nice little Japanese bistro, very clean and quaint. There's a small bar area where you can watch the chefs in action - prepping, slicing, rolling sushi and frying up a storm.
At first, I had a difficult time deciding on my lunch order. There wasn't a whole lot of descriptive narrative about kushi age or other dishes. After reading some yelp reviews I ordered the 6pc kushi age, which consisted of deep fried assortments of sweet onion, mushroom wrapped in bacon, chicken, beef, pork and shrimp. It comes with rice and a nice bowl of soup (lots of hearty veggies in a deep brown miso flavored soup), and they serve you with tiny dishes of a chili dry seasoning and a greenish-yellow seasoning that had a curry flavor), plus the shoyu dipping sauce. This entree wasn't bad but it wasn't spectacular either. I have to say the batter was light and crunchy; however the beef and shrimp were somewhat chewy, overlooked in my opinion. Also I was a little nervous that the bacon wrapped mushroom was undercooked because the bacon was chewy as well. Luckily nothing bad to report - no after effects.
The sushi wasn't great. It didn't taste that fresh. I had the spicy tuna roll and it was just average.
The service wasn't bad and the ambiance was charming. Based on other reviews, it might have other dishes that could prove worthy, but since time is precious, and there's a plethora of other Asian cuisine on spring mountain road, I might just pass on yu yu.
Worth a trip to try and decide for yourself.
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