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| - A good place for a quick fix for sushi! It gets super busy and popular during lunch time. However, it's far from authentic... Though I am sure authenticity isn't the point.
A colleague treated me to lunch today, and we decided to go here. I took one of their premade sashimi combos, while he grabbed one of the premade nigiri and roll combos. They offer spicy miso soup too, and apparently it's just normal miso soup flavoured with sriracha.
My sashimi combo was of a decent size, but also quite pricey at $17 ($15 for the actual meal, and I believe there was an extra cost for the soup, though I could be mistaken). It consisted of three avocado rolls, three cucumber rolls, and roughly 8 pieces of generous salmon sashimi slabs on top of a bed of julienned cucumbers and adorned with two pieces of pickled radishes, and two cut pieces of artificial crab. My meal also came with a tiny container of wakame or seaweed salad, which is absolutely my fav.
A couple things to note right off the bat:
1. The soy sauce is SWEET. I am positive that they added some sort of honey sauce to it. The sweetness isn't as prominent when you're dipped rolls or anything with rice into it, but when I put my plain sashimi inside, it became very obvious. It wasn't a flavour I enjoyed, as it didn't feel like I was eating sashimi.
2. The wasabi isn't spicy at all. I typically don't add a lot of wasabi to my food, but it was completely bland.
3. Most of my maki rolls came with less filling than expected, and was often squished - but that's to be expected!
Overall, I was fairly pleased with the portion size (loooved the generous slabs of salmon sashimi) though I was very thrown off by the sweet soy sauce and non spicy wasabi. It didn't feel like sushi as a result :(
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