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| - Man, this place was so much fun to eat at. As we all know, I tend to dine solo. If I'm hungry, I'm gonna go eat. I can make friends where ever I'm at.
Cue scene: Saturday night 10pm. I'm starved... After my disastrous breakfast, I realized I hadn't eaten since then. So I check out my trust Yelp for something close yet tasty. Enter SushiWa and their AYCE. I think what hurts this place is you have to know what you're looking for or else you will pass it. I don't like the fact that I can't enter this center off of Eastern if I'm heading south from St. Rose. If you turn on Coronado Center, it's the first driveway.
I stroll in, and the place is practically empty. Bad for them, but that means I get my own sushi chef. Yay! As other people have mentioned, the fish is fresh... Very fresh. Also, they are known for their rolls. The rolls are very Americanized, which is something that I have a love/hate with. Some of the rolls had a bit too much sauce for me (I like to taste my fish). Don't get me wrong, they have sashimi and a limited traditional sushi menu, but it's pretty American. I can understand the why behind it. The cool thing is that when I just started asking for things not on the menu they could make it, which sparked an interesting "where are you from" conversation. THE CHEF EVEN STARTED TO LEARN MY PALATE AND CATERED THE SUSHI TOWARDS ME! That's service. That's five stars!
Now, there is a bit of a language barrier with some of the chefs as English is definitely not their first language. One of them even apologized to me at one point, I told them don't worry about it because it's not like I can speak his language anyway. Also, I found the Korean influence on the menu interesting. I'm certainly gonna go back and try the bulgogi. I also loved that I could keep getting oranges for dessert-- orange that looked like a pumpkin, orange that looked like a cat. Oh and they have Orion and another beer that is slipping my mind right now. Whatever it was, it was $9, and boy was it tasty!
The best part was the staff themselves. Did the waiter forget to refill my tea once? Yes, but when he saw me pick up my glass and rushed to me apologizing profusely for his mistake. It actually made me feel badly that he felt so badly about it. The chefs were so much fun to hang out with. I was laughing so hard at one point that I started crying. Joon, Ken, and "buy one get one free" totally made my night. I didn't feel like I was out to eat by myself, but like I was at a friend's house that could really cook.
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