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| - From start to finish, the experience at Odaki was pretty awful. We were (eventually) seated at a table in the near-empty restaurant where there were freshly made soy sauce stains and the chopsticks looked as though they'd been used and placed back in the pouch thing. Now, I live in Vancouver so my standards for sushi are naturally quite high. I also failed to mention that I'm not necessarily the most seasoned of sushi-lovers yet and I generally stick to more vegetarian choices.
Though I can be adventurous with my food, I consider myself still relatively new to the whole sushi scene. When my spicy veggie roll arrived, it was covered in fish eggs. I was not down with that, and as a result immediately asked if it were possible to have the sushi remade without any of the fish eggs. That was nice, however the ingredients were not fresh and the prices were such a rip off. Luckily they didn't charge me for the extra one. However, the veggie tempura came to almost 9$ for maybe 5 pcs, which was astonishingly high-priced and low quality considering what I've tried in the past. My sister ordered pork dumplings which were served in a big puddle of not so tasty peanut sauce and they tasted strange and watery. Even my sister who is more experienced in sushi and Japanese food than I felt this place to have ripped us off tremendously. We were shocked that our bill came to almost 50$ all together and we had not ordered that much food. The miso soup was the last thing to arrive...very strange.
They were still playing Christmas music even though our visit was during the second week of January. Another big no-no.
Anyways, all-in-all, I would never return. In fact I advise anyone wandering this part of town on an empty stomach with a jonesing for some sushi to avoid Odaki at all cost. If you decide to eat here, you will leave disappointed, feeling ill in your stomach from the not-so-fresh ingredients, and several (wasted) dollars poorer.
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