i wanted to love it. i really did. the reviews on google were quite positive and i had read that the portions weregreatand the food was cheap.
well, you get what you pay for. the place definitely caters to university students. the server was nice, i suppose, but as soon as we sat down we realized the tables and the menus were sticky. i mean there was only one other table being served, so you would think a waitress would do the things that they are paid to do, like cleaning the seating area. my husband looked at the wall directly beside our table and it was covered with soy and other dried bits of... well, it was nasty. i felt bad because i had chosen this place and my husband was totally grossed out.
also, i want to mention that the smell in there wasn’tgreateither - part antiseptic, part cat pee perhaps? i don’t know.
ok, so now the food. as other reviewers have noted, they definitely used a lot of sauce on the rolls. i like tasting the fish, so it was disappointing that the roll was dripping with sauce. we both felt like we ate more sweet potato at our meal than anything else. it was the majority of the tempura basket items and it was easily half the sushi roll we shared. i had wanted to get some butter fish sashimi but that wasn’t on the menu.
our tempura was unceremoniously dumped on the table and came out in a steam basket, which i thought was cute until my husband noticed that the edges were full of black mold between the wood slats. ugh. when the tempura came out we were left to eat it on the table (or use the tiny soy sauce dish) since we weren’t actually given plates. for the entire meal. it is such a small thing, and so silly i almost want to laugh, except that we ate there yesterday so the actual memory of the experience is still a little painful.
although i thought the taste of the actual sushi roll was ok, it was really too big to eat. i have a big mouth (lol) and can usually fit sushi pieces in with moderate ease but i needed three or four bites for one sushi slice. you know what happens then. yes, it went all over the place. i had to use the black moldy tempura basket to cradle the remains of my sushi (yea, i know, why didn’t i just ask for a plate! well i had no idea where the server had disappeared).
i know this is a pretty scathing review and i don’t mean it to be taken as hateful or anything. i have tried to be descriptive but objective.