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| - We were in the neighborhood, and we felt like having some sushi...
The place is small, only 3 tables. There's an ice cream parlor / banh mi counter inside a sushi restaurant, it might seem weird, but then again if you go to Vua sandwich which is a banh mi place that also sells sushi, it kind of makes sense for the lunch crowd.
One clever thing about the menu and ordering is the menu is laminated and you get a marker and just highlight what you want. It's not an all you can eat sushi but I thought that was a cool idea to not waste paper. The owner is quite charming and very welcoming which makes you feel at home.
On to the food. We ordered 3 makis each, I ordered the seafood salad, and my friend ordered a seafood miso soup.
The salad was amazing, it had seaweed some lettuce and topped with shrimp and some sashimi, tuna, salmon and some white fish, check out the picture. It is beautiful to look at and tasted very fresh. The vinaigrette was just right.
The makis were very colorful, two of them were wrapped in soya wraps, one was a rainbow roll and another was wrapped in cucumber.
Some rolls came with their own sauce, one was white creamy sauce, it tasted like the japanese wafu salad dressing, it tasted really good. Another sauce tasted like hoi sin sauce but mixed with something tangy and had a kick of spicy in it, that one was used with the cucumber roll. All the rolls were coloful and tasted amazing. I feel like this is such a good throwback sushi joint where the menu is limited but the sushi is made with care and the attention to detail really makes a difference.
The fish were very fresh and soft, it melted in your mouth. I was pleasantly delighted that a small place like this had such fresh ingredients.
For those of you looking for asian flavored ice cream, they do have many flavors, from mango to coconut to DURIAN!!! yes durian, wow that's really rare to find in montreal.
I was informed by the owner that they just started offering mousse, chocolate mousse, mango mousse, and other flavors. We each had one, I had chocolate and my friend had chocolate and rasberry. It had rich chocolaty flavor without the bitterness, not too sweet, just right.
I did not try the banh mi yet because we were so full, but I would definitely pass by during lunch just to try their banh mi and grab a vietnamese coffee :)
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