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| - It could have been a two, if it's not because of the great service. Tonight my hubby suddenly craved for Japanese food but our favorite one was closed, so we quickly picked one that I saved from Yelp to try.
When we first got in, we were warmly greeted and seated by a very friendly lady (since others say it's a family-owned restaurant, so I guess she's the mom?). We looked through the menu and ordered sushi pieces (sea urchin, oysters, tuna, scallop, spicy scallop, white fish, albacore, tamago), tofu and a miso soup. But because they said sea urchin and oysters might not be very fresh at that moment, so we replaced them with toro, and she was so kind to offer two miso soups for us for free. So, we were very happy waiting for our sushi, while drinking the hot tea just served.
Then I noticed something. The hot tea was salty. Just like those tea that were brewed with tap water instead of drinking water (I'm not a 100% sure if that's the cause but sometimes you could taste that kind of salty tea in some Chinese restaurants in the valley. I think we all know tea shouldn't be salty, right?)
Okay. I thought it's just the tea (and I had to pay for that), but later I found that the miso soup was very salty too, and I just couldn't finish it (even my hubby, who always likes adding a few pinches of salt to almost every meal said it's salty)!
The sushi came fairly quickly, and I couldn't wait to try my toro (discounted to $11)!! My hubby hasn't tried toro before, so he said it's okay, but for me, I think there're way too many tendons in the fish! Toro should be something that will MELT in your mouth (and with this price!) and the aroma should linger in your mouth (from my better experience)! They also added too much vinegar in the rice so the sourness of the rice covered the taste and aroma of the fish. I'm quite disappointed but I thought I'll wait until I tried out everything to judge.
Others weren't particularly bad but I won't say they're very fresh (I liked the albacore sushi though). As for the proportion of the fish and the rice (I know I'm super picky, sorry about that), I think I have to agree with Omar who reviewed before. The size of the fish is way too large compared to the rice. I remember the first time I read Omar's review, I laughed, "What? Isn't it a good thing to have a bigger piece of fish?" and "maybe he haven't tried other Japanese restaurants where they have large pieces of fish on top of the rice!"...but NOW I know. The fish was cut much larger and thicker than normal, and I just came to realize that it's not necessarily a good thing. Because the balance is lost. It's like placing a piece of sashimi on a tiny bit of rice, and you think you're eating sashimi instead of sushi. (I like sashimi too, but since I ordered sushi...)
Om...and the spicy scallop sushi were super spicy (even my hubby who can eat comparatively quite spicy food wouldn't want to take the second piece). Thank goodness they gave us some fruit in the end and my tongue felt better (well I can't eat very spicy things in the first place haha, my bad) :p
I hate to criticize like almost everything about the food, since the lady was so very nice!!! I guess if you're not too pampered by fine, authentic sushi before, and you don't care about salty miso soup and stuff, then you might give it a try :)
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