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| - My rating is 3.5 stars rounded up because the maki roll was so good. The rolls here are fantastic. However, I find the other menu items to be hit or miss. I love love loved the ambiance - it felt like we were dining in someone's living room. The chandelier and the decor in the main room are actually quite stunning. At first, we were seated in the back room, but we asked to switch to the front room (which was a lot better).
Food: Ordered the crispy beef wrapped unagi rolls, snow white maki roll with black rice, tuna and avocado riceless roll, spicy salmon pizza, and the general tao chicken.
Would order again:
Crispy beef wrapped unagi rolls - the name doesn't lie!! This is unagi (eel) wrapped in beef and deep fried to be crunchy on the outside. Really really good.
Snow white maki roll - This is melt-in-your-mouth. It's a grilled roll, so is served a bit warm. (I've tried grilled or fried rolls before where it was served too hot, or the rice became mushy because of the heat). But Bazara's snow white roll wasn't like that at all. The rice kept its integrity and was a medley of delicious flavours. Add a dab of soy sauce and a bit of ginger, and you're good to go.
Tuna and avocado riceless roll - The beauty of riceless roll was the amount of tuna it had in it. Each roll (which was wrapped in thin cucumber slice) had a substantial amount of tuna wrapped around avocado. It really highlighted the taste of the tuna. However, note that this dish only comes with 4 pieces (not 8).
Would not order again:
Spicy salmon pizza - Too much sauce. I think it was some kind of light bbq type sauce that was incorporated into the pizza (spread on the rice and under the salmon). I would've enjoyed this dish much more without the sauce. But even still, I don't think I would order this again. Each bite was so overwhelmingly the taste of deep fried rice, that the salmon just got lost. It's also called spicy salmon but I didn't taste the spicy part.
General tao chicken - once again, too much sauce. The chicken was done well, and it was crispy. But drenched in sauce. And the sauce really wasn't that good. It doesn't come with rice, so we had to order a bowl of steamed rice for $2. You could get this dish for much cheaper elsewhere.
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