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| - I was invited by someone who knows her sushi, She maybe my equal and or more awesome than I, on many levels. We had to be mindful that we were ordering for a person who has not eaten much uncooked fish. A couple of other challenges were, that the newb did not like salmon, and we do not like eel.
We ordered several large rolls and regular makis that had a variety of cooked and uncooked fish. We unfortunately did not order a ton of sashimi due to the newbie factor. The fish to rice ratio was not as high as I prefer.(like some places that are on the corner of Mayfield and Coventry)
Tip - when ordering sushi and the rice spirals around the fish, it may look cool, but that means you are eating a sh*t ton of sushi rice!
Manhattan roll had more avocado than tuna! WTF, if I wanted that much avocado I would have ordered chips and guac! Well I might be embellishing a bit! However, for 7 bucks more FCUK'n fish please.
The roll with softshell crab with other things was off. I ate one piece and something tasted funny. When rolls are made lots of different ingredients and sauces, its a bit more challenging to enjoy the simplicity of sushi. Anyhow, I approached my second piece and started to sample the contents of the roll and found something was bad, I asked my counterpart to taste the ingredient that I suspected was bad, and she agreed as well. The manager promptly removed the item and offered to replace it with another Item of our choice. The manager removed this item from our bill and handled this situation as professionally as possible.
The rest of the dinner went with out incident. Our server was incredibly attentive and friendly. The water glasses never reached empty. I was pleasantly surprised that there were some people whom had worked at Mallorca are now at the "Rock"
Some of the other rolls which I can not remember the names of, but had things like shrimp tempura, spicy sauce, mayo and some veggies, were quite tasty, our newbie, lets call him Joe, enjoyed the other large rolls as well.
Joe who claimed to not like salmon enjoyed the Alaskan (salmon and avocado) quite a bit. The salmon was very fresh, it melted like butter upon the "Chew".
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