Man, we used to eat here sometimes twice a week back in the day, and although the lunch special doubled in price, it's still cheaper then a fast food combo. It's funny when i read that people are complaining of the prices here when you get so much for the money. Basically the original lunch special was a small green salad, a small cup of rice, tempura with the vegies of the day (usually, sweet potato or pumpkin, green bean, mushroom, sometimes round onion) which are pretty much the standard tempura vegies, chicken teri which isn't a tiny portion, it's pretty hefty, miso (soy bean soup), and i think it's about 12.75 i think. It's a bargain, and i think a dollar for a couple of pot stickers (possibly back in the day the two gyoza was included in the lunch special). They have another special now with steak and it adds two shrimp to the tempura for like 13.75 or something close to that. It's the typical japanese diner tasting teri steak, and it's great for the price. Sometimes you get the fat on the steak though, so chicken is i think the better deal, but either way, i've had fast food that cost more then this. And why i give this place 5 stars, ok sure you can find better japanese restaurants, the gohan (rice) could be better, but at these prices at least this place is authentic japanese, the tempura tastes like tempura, you get tempura sauce with it, the potstickers or gyoza i've had better, but it's only a dollar or something to add 2 pieces and you get the side of shoyu/vinegar (typical potsticker sauce in japanese restaurants). And to top it off, when i have a craving for a particular nigiri sushi, i just get a few pieces here, it's just quick and convenient, and guess what, it tastes fine. i haven't had a bad tasting nigiri sushi here and that's over 20 years of coming here. It's very old school run japanese dinerish sushi bar, i still love it. Guess the only thing i hate is the parking, which can suck so come early or come after the first wave is done.
Oh and my picture doesn't do it justice, it's hard to see all the tempura you get, this plate i got had the two shrimp and vegetable tempura and just grilled chicken. Instead of teriyaki sauce on it, i got ponzu which is a soy/citrus sauce and normally like it with daikoroshi (grated daikon mixed with ponzu). The chicken is good that way, but unfortunately they dont do the grated daikon. So the sauce in the middle was just ponzu. You get a side green salad with it, and tempura sauce on the side to dip your tempura in. Once a travelling couple from france was eating there before their flight back and they didn't know what the tempura sauce was, and was thinking they needed to drink it like soup lol. Ok please don't do that. read more