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| - I had Kobe sushi one year ago and it was a pleasant experience. I decided to try it again, expecting the same result. I was reminded that we can hope for the best but should always expect the worse.
My brother ordered some nigiri: salmon, uni, maguro and hamachi. He seemed satisfied with most of the bite-sized morsels of seafood with one exception, the tuna. It came to the table a bubblegum pink. Very unappetizing visually. He ate one piece of the bubblegum twins and decided that bazooka joe on a ball of rice does not equal deliciousness.
My mom ordered what she always ordered when she eats at a Japanese restaurant, Katsu udon. I peeked into her bowl and it looked like a layer of beige oatmeal with the consistency of loogies (which I guess was an egg mixture of some sort) on top of over cooked pork cutlet. She took one bite, spit it out into a napkin and said "this is the WORST Katsu udon I've ever had." This is coming from a women who is ancient, with probably 100,000+ Katsu udon meals under her belt.
I played it safe with my order and since I wasn't very hungry, I ordered a shrimp tempura roll. One would think that it would be impossible to mess up a simple tempura roll, but Kobe sushi has a special talent when it comes to creating gross dishes. It was cold and filled up with so much imitation crab (which I call the hot dog of the sea) that I couldn't even taste a hint of shrimp. And it was gooey upon chewing with zero if the crunchiness I love about tempura rolls. I'm not sure if it was the eel sauce or if the sushi chef spit in my roll (we returned that bowl of "Katsu udon" and probably upset the chef by now with all our complaints) but something in it was gooey. To top it all off, I spotted a long gray hair coming out of the depths of sea hotdog. Of course I had to spot it AFTER I took a bite.
I feel bad about ripping Kobe sushi so hard in this review because the waitress was pleasant and genuinely seemed embarrassed and sorry that the experience was going so bad. And she didn't charge us for the Katsu udon. But it was honestly one of the worst sushi meals I've ever had, so bad that I was compelled to write this extremely long and detailed review about it. Avoid this place at all costs. Order a syphilis infested prostitute from a jerry curled pimp before you order sushi from this place.
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