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| - Chandler residents, try this place if you like Sushi. If you live around Chandler/Mesa area, you know how hard it is to find a descent sushi place unlike areas around north Scottsdale.
We ordered few appetizers, multiple sushi and few rolls. The appetizers and the sushi were pretty good for the most part. But I do have to mention that the rice for one of the sushi was horrifying. I've never had rice fall apart on me when I tried to pick it up. It was soggy and all I could taste was sugar. Honestly, I'm amazed that the rice kept its nigiri shape on the plate. I don't know what happened on that particular sushi but yeah, that was unappetizing. The rolls were ok but nothing special at all. The portions were tiny and the flavor was barely there.
So, from our point of view, this restaurant is pretty much on the same level as Kabuki in Old Town Pasadena, CA with an authentic Japanese sushi restaurant feel b/c of the presence of Japanese staff and the decor. That being said, it was really interesting to us because usually, a non-authentic sushi restaurants try to cover their lack of skill by serving pretty good rolls (which is basically an Americanized sushi.) But this place served better sushi than rolls. So kudos to them. Hence, it affected my rating along with the location to 4 stars.
*Location = thank goodness that there is at least one pretty good sushi place around Chandler area
*Food = pretty good
*Service = very good
*Atmosphere = nice and hip
*Price = expected for AZ sushi place = over $100/a couple
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