Overall rating of 3.75 based on two experiences-Dine-in and newly added to Justeat.ca Richmond (for take out). Pay attention to whether you want to order for delivery or pickup, apparently there's two different menus (?). I personally didn't analyze them both but if you switch from delivery to take out whatever you added to your cart gets deleted. Also note, phone them to confirm that your order hasn't already been sent off if you place a pickup. My order, apparently, was about to be sent off when I arrived. Luckily, I put a later pickup time taking into consideration of rush hour traffic.
Service at this place is mediocre. Wouldn't say it's the best. Both for take out and dine-in.
Food is definitely better eating in. I'd give it 4 stars but for take out I'd say 3. Also depends on what you order. If it has deep fried tempura in your rolls or crispy crunch on top, they tend to get softened by the time you reach home. I do give them props for still trying to give the utmost effort in presentation and to put each roll in a separate box. So I do recommend dining in instead of taking out or else you can just take out from a less expensive sushi joint.
Dishes/Sushi's I've tried:
-Monkey Brain (5/5-$8.95): Deep fried avocado with juicy crab meat and cooked tuna replacing the seed with spicy sauce. Super delicious and still tasted good when it arrived home. I didn't taste much crab meat to be honest.
-Sexy Roll (4/5-$10.95): Avocado, imitation carb, tuna, salmon, ebi, tamago wrapped with thinly sliced cucumber instead of rice. This is what I call the carb-free roll. I had a similar roll at Sushi Mura and Mega sushi does it way better. It was nicely wrapped. Didn't fall apart and our roll was not drenched in sauce. Actually our sauces were put in a small container so we used it as a dip.
-Paradise Roll (4/5-$10.95): Deep fried california roll with seaweed salad, tobiko, asparagus, spicy mayo on top. Unfortunately, this roll didn't have the presentation it would have if we were to dine in and to me, the initial bite didn't wow me at all. But the flavour really came through having it as leftover. So my take would be that it has to be eaten when it's fresh so you get the deepfried-ness or cold so the flavours of the seaweed salad enhances the deep fried cali roll.
-Cherry Blossom Roll (3.5/5-$12.95): Avocado, cucumber, imitation crab in a roll with salmon, avocado, apple sauce, caper, tobiko on top. Had higher expectations to this roll. The apple sauce don't go well with sushi and the caper had no effect at all. I'd skip this roll. But points for novelty.
-Stanley Roll (3/5-$13.95): Prawn tempura, cucumber in a roll with sliced avocado, spicy tuna, green onion, tobiko and yam flakes on top. This was one of the least appetizing roll for all of us. All I tasted was the avocado and presentation of roll when it came home wasn't that great.
-Blue Ocean Roll (3.5/5-$13.95): red tuna, hamachi, salmon, radish sprout, avocado in soy wrap with tobiko. The fish in this roll was fresh and loved that they used soy wrap instead of the usual seaweed. But it wasn't anything mindblowing.
-Romance Roll (3.5/5-$13.95): avocado, cucumber, imitation crab, radish sprout in a roll with red tuna and deep fried lotus root on top. Looks pretty but it tastes similar to the cherry blossom roll minus the apple sauce.
-Big Boss Roll (4/5-$13.95): Prawn tempura, cucumber, imitation crab, avocado in a roll with torched tuna, yam flakes, four sauces on top. Totally worth the price. You get lots of tuna on top and the yam flakes would have tasted so much better had it not have gotten soggy. Still one of my favourite out of the bunch.
-Kiss me Roll (3.5/5-$13.95): Unagi, cucumber, avocado in a roll with redtuna, salmon, avocado on top. Looks very similar to the romance roll and honestly, it almost tasted the same. This one comes with a spicy sauce, if I remember right.
-Tank Roll (4/5-$13.95): Prawn tempura, salmon, tuna, tobiko, ebi, smoked salmon, imitation crab, avocado, cucumber, cream cheese in a roll. Simple look to it. Huge with almost everything you can possibly want. No sauce but still absolutely delicious. One roll would be enough to fill me. Glad we shared.
-Sun Set roll (4/5-$14.95): Cucumber, avocado, tuna in a roll with torched salmon, scallop on top with alfalfa. Tasty, but didn't really taste the scallop and didn't standout enough for the extra buck.
-Godzilla bite (4/5-$13.95): Deep fried seaweed and rice with tuna, salmon, torched spicy chop and alfalfa on top with special sauce. This is not a roll but rather a rice bed with sashimi on top if you will. Pretty interesting. Had this one at the restaurant, thus the presentation was lovely as well.
-Beef Yakisoba (3/5-$10.95): Ample beef but more veggies than meat. The noodles were ok. Not something I would order again. Served in a cast iron plate. read more