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| - So this is basically 3 businesses rolled into one: a filipino convenience store, a water store, and a sushi to-go store.
As far as the filipino store goes, it's pretty basic. Lots of snacks and dried noodle packets, some frozen foods, and some beauty products. The prices are decent, not as outrageously gouged as other filipino stores, but not the cheapest either. I also saw a "chiller machine" (aka slushy machine) in the back where it wasn't clear whether it was employee operated only, or available for customers to fill their slushy cups themselves. But they only had 2 flavors, mango and something red.
The water store part takes up a whole wall of the small space. You pretty much bring in your bottles and fill them up and the nice lady at the counter charges you by the gallon. They also sell all kinds of water bottles and dispensers throughout the store.
The sushi you order at the front counter from the lady who goes to the back to make your order fresh. Although they have a menu full of a variety of rolls and nigiri, the way the lady spoke, it felt like there was only 2 kinds of fish left: tuna and eel. So I ordered an eel roll for $5.99 and a nigiri mix plate of eel and tuna for $7.99. They also had maki rolls available, like California, cucumber, vegetable, etc.
The sushi was actually pretty fresh and tasty. They come packaged like they do in the grocery stores, but without that weird staleness of the rice and fish. For a total of $14 to get 8 pieces of eel roll (with cucumber and avocado), and the nigiri plate of 4 generous pieces each of eel and tuna it was a pretty good deal. Everything was fresh and nothing was stale, but the only downside is if you're in a rush, you might want to order ahead of time because she took about 10 minutes to make both orders.
And I just wanted to note that the eel was fresher and not as oversauced as most sit-down sushi places in town. The taste wasn't as fishy either, and the sauce wasn't overpowering or in too much quantity. Nice.
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