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| - So...I love this place. The Extremely Spicy Gyoza Hot Pot sold me on this place the first time I went and I return over and over again just to have it. That said, I've tried relatively few things.
The sushi is fine, not amazing. I like it enough to order it most times I go but I wouldn't go there just for sushi. The lettuce wraps with shrimp and vegetables are good but messy to eat since they are served with thinnish romaine leaves rather than the round butter lettuce leaves most places use. My husband gets the pasta every once in a while and loves it. I've tried his plates a couple times and I think it's good, not great, but that could be because he drowns it in shredded parmesan and I can't taste the real flavor it came out of the kitchen with.
Next time I will get Tan Tan Men. Other Yelpers have raved about the Ramen and, although I've never tried it, I expect it to be delicious because it's made with the same soup as the Extremely Gyoza Hot Pot which, as I already mentioned, I LOVE.
Now for the not so good...(but not so bad either)...
The last time we went we sat at the bar for the first time. Like other reviewers, I definitely recommend sitting at the bar if you can for two reasons: 1) when the place is busy, which it often is, the food takes a while to make it to your table and being able to watch the cooks provides a bit of entertainment to make the time pass quicker; 2) there's more space at the bar than at the 2-person tables. We usually feel pretty cramped at the 2-tops once we have drinks and an appetizer on the table but there's a little more elbow room and room for plates and drinks at the bar.
However, sitting at the bar has a downside also...when you can see the cooks putting all the plates together, though it's entertaining, you can also see all the things they touch without wearing gloves. I've never been sick after eating here and I will continue to eat here frequently despite having seen all this, but it does make me pause to think a bit when I watch a cook dip his bare hand into some seafood (which he throws into a pan presumably hot enough to cook off any germs) and then wipe his hand on a repeatedly-used wet towel as he grabs a bunch of lettuce leaves for a salad plate (without any heat to cook off germs) that goes directly out to the customer. Admittedly, I don't know much about proper food handling and what's ok and what's not, but bare handed food touching always weirds me out a little.
That said, the food is delicious. It does take a while to get from ordering to eating but the cooks are hustling so I can't complain. Try the Gyoza Hot Pot. It's awesome. 5 stars without the wait and bare (but potentially clean-ish??) hands on food.
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