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Picture a narrow, dimly lit deli with flickering fluorescent lights and one glass display counter taking up nearly all of the space. The food is all in styrofoam containers covered with plastic wrap. Prices are astoundingly cheap. There is one wobbly steel table in the corner where customers eat with disposable chopsticks, using those same styrofoam containers as plates. Completing the dining experience are two grimy plastic soy sauce bottles that look just like those parmesan cheese shakers at American pizza joints. This place is the epitome of "hole-in-the-wall."
And it serves fantastic sushi.
I don't understand how it's possible. I had 10 pieces of salmon sashimi for US$4.50. On a styrofoam plate. The wasabi and soy sauce got a mini styrofoam plate of their own. This is the polar opposite of everything I know about Japanese food. Yet it was absolutely melt-in-your-mouth delicious. They also have a full menu offering many more items than are on display, with prices like US$1.50 for, say, a plain tuna roll (6 pieces). This should cause your jaw to drop.
Now if only they didn't have those flickering fluorescent lights. A take-out sushi fest at home might be in order...
And it serves fantastic sushi.
I don't understand how it's possible. I had 10 pieces of salmon sashimi for US$4.50. On a styrofoam plate. The wasabi and soy sauce got a mini styrofoam plate of their own. This is the polar opposite of everything I know about Japanese food. Yet it was absolutely melt-in-your-mouth delicious. They also have a full menu offering many more items than are on display, with prices like US$1.50 for, say, a plain tuna roll (6 pieces). This should cause your jaw to drop.
Now if only they didn't have those flickering fluorescent lights. A take-out sushi fest at home might be in order...