Always busy and my sushi go to. I sometimes drive from the otherside of town to get the sushi here. The teriyaki chicken here is delicious - the teriyaki sauce is not jam packed with sugar like St Pierres and just pure authentic perfection! The hand rolls are great for those on a budget too! 10/10
Funny that there's four Japanese joints within 100m of each other (St Pierre's - Bento Bowl and Japanz bakery down the other end of the mall, and Samurai Bowl over the road.) I reckon this is the pick of the bunch. Tonight's winner was fresh salmon in brown rice sushi. Generous with the fish and the rice was really moist - top marks. I got a couple of dons and a crispy chicken sushi roll too. The crispy chicken don was well balance. Unfortunately, the teriyaki salmon was over sauced and therefore the meat could have been just about anything.
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This ever-busy, impressively efficient outlet in the most humble of locations (South City Mall) serves the best sushi in Christchurch. Yes - the best. They also currently have the best don-style meals I've found too, since Osaka-ya got earthquaked a few years ago.
The range of sushi is excellent - the vege tempura and tuna options are particularly good, but everything here is tasty. Forget St Pierres, Maki Mono, Sushi Express, Sushi-ya or Bento Bowl, this place is just better.
For sushi, their rice is excellent, well flavoured and well cooked. Nori is tasty and not too chewy. Fillings are always done very well, fresh, good flavour, good garnish. Served with good quality soy sauce, proper eye-watering wasabi, and good quality ginger. Consistently - they don't put a foot wrong. Treat yourself to the Vege Tempura sushi - it's amazing - and noone else in town seems to do it!
The hot meals are very good, too - teriyaki chicken, salmon or beef. Crispy chicken. All cooked well, really flavoursome, with fresh authentic salad.
2017 update: Still awesome. Now serving fried chicken snack boxes nom nom. I don't give 5 stars out lightly.
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