TL:DR Boring, bland taste. Don't go.
After eating sushi hundreds of times when living in japan, ive tried to avoid sushi in denmark.
I will not compare restaurants here to the japanese standard, but rather to the more popular places in Copenhagen such as 'Sushi lovers' and 'sticks and sushi'.
If these get a 4/5 then Nagoya restaurant gets a 2/5.
I didn't expect much at such a relatively cheap price, but was still let down.
My observations:
The basics were bad.
-Bad strong salty soy sauce without depth.
A good soy sauce can enhance mediocre sushi by several factors, their basic soy sauce however was among the worst i had. Could only really taste salt. Lots of salt.
I think its a cheap brand.(2/5)
-Rice was bland and stale.
The individual rice grains were both glassy/transparant and partly milky white. (Theyre supposed to be only milky white) Which means they either have been made a while ago or were undercooked. I could also barely taste any rice vinegar they're supposed to season it with after cooking.
They texture was okay.(3/5)
-The seaweed plates for rolling sushi were cheap.
Good nori breaks apart when eating it, but this one was rubbery and chewy. No nice nori smell.(2/5)
-The gari (sushi ginger) tasted synthetic.
Ginger is supposed to rinse your mouth inbetween every type of sushi youre eating. The gari alone would get a 1/5 compared to japanese ones. I love gari, yet couldnt eat more than 3 pieces from this. Tasted like they were bathed in cheap parfume.
Worst gari ive had.(1/5)
-Cucumber was overused.
1 line of cucumber is standard, however they used 2, sometimes 3 parallel lines, resulting in some pieces being huge.
-The fish in the rolls were bland.
-The salmon on their nigiri was actually good. Though that is probably because the quality for salmon in general is quite good in Scandinavia. This was their best piece.(5/5 when ignoring the rice)
-The grilled salmon nigiri with sauce was the worst ive had.
Normally grilled salmon and crispy ebi is something sushi restaurants dont get wrong and most people like, the sweet sauce however, tasted like nothing.
Im serious. I got suspicious after the first piece i ate and then double checked tasting the sauce alone, nothing. Maybe a bit "fat/oil" taste, it wasnt even salty. Im genuinely unsure what i ate and got bit concerned.(1/5)
-Tuna nigiri was bland. But this is the case with all restaurants in europe, we do not have access to good fatty sushi tuna.(2/5)
-Seaweed salad was good, maybe bit too sour. (4/5)
Overall it was just a very salty, bland ordeal. I left hungry, i just didnt feel like eating more. These are core issues with their basics, and not something they are gonna fix on a "good day".
I assume the restaurant earns their money by creating as cheap sushi as possible, without it tasting bad. Since it wasn't actually super bad, it just didn't taste like much at all.
If youre new to sushi, you might like this place. Or if youre a couple of friends that just want to eat yourself fat before you go binge drinking.
I do not recommend this place. read more