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| - I was in Scottsdale for business, and when I had a free minute to myself, I hit up one of my friends who happened to be stationed in Arizona for his military duties. After telling him about my lenten diet that requires me to abstain from meat and rice, we settled on Sushi J.
It was nothing short of fantastic.
Parking is easy because it's located in a plaza that wasn't even close to busy, and we were seated at the bar. I was telling the chefs about the situation with my diet, and one had the audacity of saying, "Don't worry. I got you."
He asked what kind of fish I liked, and then proceeded to make two customized rolls for me--each of which were fantastic. One used both hamachi and spicy tuna, with rice paper wrapping it together with some lettuce, green onion and cucumber. The other roll was also wrapped in rice paper, and it included unagi, avocado, topped with a drop of Sriracha with something else crunchy. They were awesome.
I haven't seen this friend in a while so we also ordered some sake bombs as well as the calamari, which was also quite tasty. The green tea mochi ice cream was also good.
After dinner I found out that the person who made me those customized rolls was the head chef. How crazy is that?
I'll definitely be coming back when I'm in the area.
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