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| - My very first visit to Izumi was on a Monday. All this time, I've never visited this sushi restaurant or its predecessor Tokyo Garden, even though its just around the corner from me.
I'm very happy I finally did, because it was some of the best sushi I've had in the city. The menu is large, overwhelmingly so, as I wanted to try everything. I settled for some ebi ( part of the $1 specials on Monday) the veggie Yama roll, which had shiitake mushroom carrot and egg, along with a thin covering of rice. It was crazy delicious and a nice change from the usual cucumber/ avocado rolls most menus offer. The gomae was amazing. Just the right amount of sauce, having the perfect amount of peanut taste. The seaweed salad was a surprise. It looked like thinly sliced green peppers, yet gelatinous at the same time, but turned out to taste crunchy and a little bit tart so good. The crunch roll was my final dish, and it had just a tiny amount of raw fish, which I usually don't go for, but was so fresh I plowed through that real quick. I have to admit, there was a topping on it that looked a bit like tiny rabbit turds mixed with baked beans. It was very spicy, so I took that off, and it left a nice heat to the roll.
Seeing as I can walk to Izumi, I will be back to visit in a jiffy.
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