This was the worst sushi I've ever had in my life.
A few years ago this place was fine. A few months ago I got cooked food and a few pieces of sushi and it was fine. Mediocre but edible.
I got a red dragon roll (avocado/salmon). When it says shrimp tempura... it's a shrimp tempura base. Not a dynamite roll base. I could see the chef making the roll out of the corner of my eye and I feel like by the presentation I could already tell how it was going to be. It was just really clumsily made and it felt like they really didn't care. The pieces weren't even stuck together - in my photo we already started eating so that's not an accurate idea of it. I didn't think I was going to take a picture but felt like I needed to after I tasted it.
1. The portion was tiny. I'm 4'10. I really don't eat a lot but I was still hungry. So was my friend.
2. The salmon, same as last time, was not fresh. It didn't taste like anything and almost looked dry.
3. Worst shrimp tempura I've ever had. It wasn't that light flaky crispy breading/flakes you usually see on tempura. It looked like the fish and chips style of breading. It was so tough to chew - breading and shrimp (which was tiny and there was a lot of breading). Not fresh. At all.
4. The avocado was overripe and tasted like it. So overripe that when I picked up the roll with chopsticks, it just totally sunk in. You can see in my photo that the avocado is near mush.
Put it all together and it was actually the worst. The unagi was okay though.
Is it possible for even the wasabi and ginger to not look fresh? The dab of wasabi was tiny and looked dry. The ginger on the other hand had a pool of water around it. Even the edamame that came with our meal didn't look like a fresh green, it looked like it'd been sitting there for a while and had a dull brown tinge to it.
I feel bad - this is the harshest review I've ever written. But if I made this for myself at home, I wouldn't even eat it. It was really, really bad. Service was fine for an Asian place. Tables and placemats felt grimy. It's funny because they have a steady stream of people every time I come. Mostly middle-aged Chinese ladies who order the boxes with cooked things. That's probably what I should have done... but I'm not coming back so I'll never really know.