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| - Yikes, I really wanted to like this place because sushi in downtown Kent? I give one extra star for daring to put any sort of Asian Fusion place in Kent.
I ordered water to drink, edamame, a spicy tuna roll and a roll with shrimp tempura/avocado. My friend ordered ramen and a soft drink. Her drink was entirely flat. My water tasted odd, I wonder if the recent construction in Kent affected it. The edamame had a spice on it that was quite good, but was overcooked so it was challenging to eat without mushing apart the bean casings. When the sushi came out my heart sank. The presentation was abysmal; the seaweed didn't even go all the way around the rolls and the construction was messy, the rolls were falling apart when I picked them up with chopsticks. The avocado in my shrimp roll was visibly browned and old. My tuna, instead of being a healthy shade of pinky red that shows it's fresh, was an odd shade of too bright translucent pink like pepto bismal.
And that's even before the experience of eating. This sushi was awful, folks. The seaweed was incredibly chewy, how did they even achieve that? The tempura shrimp wasn't even crispy, it was clear they fried it earlier with some batter not even resembling tempura, then must have popped it in the microwave. As I said before, the avocado was old and tasted a bit off. The spicy tuna tasted like nothing (no spice) and there was some bizarre sauce on it that looked like they had squirted soy sauce. I think others put pictures up of it, you can see the effect if you want to scroll through above. It was worse than gas station sushi, I'm not messing around. I ate it because I was very hungry and I paid $6 per roll. I didn't think it was worth bringing up to the waiter because if a restaurant is willing to serve old and browned avocado in their sushi, there is not much pride there in the first place.
My advice to this establishment...taste your own sushi. Then taste some sushi available in Akron (e.g. Sakura Sushi). Either get some fresh ingredients and up your quality, or take this off the menu and focus on noodles.
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