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| - My parents, Aunty and I dined here today. My parents had been here last time they were in town and thought it was good, so we gave it another try.
We started with the house salad ($2.50). The dressing was a shoyu based dressing and was really yummy. The lettuce had been over chilled so it had freezer burn, but it didn't detract from the overall flavor.
We ate family style so we ordered a Alaska roll ($10.50), Crazy Horse roll ($8.50) and a Dynamite roll ($10.50) and we split it.
Everyone found the Alaska roll to be very tasty. It has shrimp tempura, avocado, cream cheese, and salmon. It is deep fried and then topped with unagi sauce and macadamia nuts. All the ingredients worked well together. The roll had a nice crunch from the tempura and the outside batter.
The Crazy Horse was tasty. It is an inside out roll (rice on the outside) with ahi, hamachi, salmon and avocado inside and tobiko on the outside. I think the fish could have been a little thicker cause the flavor was lost a little. Also the avocado was not ripe. But I could see this being a good roll.
Lastly, the dynamite roll is a California roll covered with bay scallops baked in a mild spicy sauce and sprinkled with scallions and tobiko. This was my least favorite of the 3. The scallops and the crab in the California roll are mixed with mayo. They use way too much mayo (and not good mayo either). Also, they mix onions in with the scallops so that's really all you taste, mayo and onions. My mom couldn't even tell there was a California roll underneath.
My dad also had the unagi nigiri (2 pieces for $4.50). He said it tasted really good. Two thumbs up.
A few other notes....we had all planned on ordering the lunch special. Unfortunately they don't offer the lunch special on the weekends, which isn't mentioned on the menu btw. So that had us off to a bad start. Service was kind of slow, but, to the credit of the waitress, she was the only waitress for the whole restaurant. The hot sake was good at $3.50 for a small bottle.
They have happy hour twice a day (Monday - Saturday). Sounds like a great deal. You can get a bottle of hot sake for 99ยข.
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