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| - I've never visited Oishi Sushi. This review is based on a delivery order.
To say I was underwhelmed is a such an understatement, it's almost a lie. First, the sushi. Sushi is about rice first, and this rice was NOT sushi rice. It was unflavored and didn't hold together. The sushi pieces were impossible to pick up in one piece, not even with your hand, and the rice completely fell apart if any soy sauce hit it. As far as the fish, the halibut was meh, and the tuna was bait food; sinewy and more gray in color than red. The gyoza were over cooked, room temperature and dried out, like they'd been cooked yesterday and heated under a heat lamp. And the miso soup with clams was just watery, with barely a hint of miso. The clams in the soup were okay, but sparse.
Isn't pretty standard for a Japanese restaurant to provide soy sauce, wasabi, and pickled ginger with delivery orders? We got bupkus. I was surprised that they supplied chopsticks, the only thing this establishment did right!
I'm sure that most of the restaurants that contract with a delivery service aim to get return business and lure customers to visit their physical location. That concept seems to have been utterly side-stepped by Oishi Sushi. There are certainly two people here who will go out of their way to avoid this establishment. You simply can't slap some poor quality fish on some stale rice, most likely cooked in a rice cooker the day before, and call it sushi.
I'm usually pretty forgiving, but this meal, for thirty plus dollars, was the biggest disappointment and waste of money that I've had in a long time. The only thing acceptable was the quality of their waribashi (the disposable chopsticks).
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