Nikkei Sushi

Review will be on sushi experience only not ramen side of things, it won't be fair. Nikkei Sushi was mark as (recently open) on Gmap, so I'm thinking how good can this be being inside a ramen joint, a place I haven't try. Later I came to realized, it's the same owner as Hopscotch which I'm a fan of.

Being a high-end sushi fan living between sin city and bay area these prices are nothing compare to sushi joints that I have gone. So I went ahead with rainbow roll USD$13 added spicy maguro roll USD$8 each roll is comparable to what you would pay at any sushi joint which isn't bad, if you view it as USD$10.50 a roll between these two, that's how I see it, even when it's proportioned for sharing.

After unboxing starting with rainbow roll girth is nice, but rice weren't together some pieces on the brink of falling apart rice look jagged and harsh not sure if knife issue or not. Sushi rice was at normal temperature and edible, but I had a weird taste not sure what to think of it. Their stock photo shown wasn't close to what I got, all three fish protein even avacado were nearly paper thin strips drape over roll without much care. Maguro roll pretty much the same wasn't spicy good thing I didn't expect anything higher than grocery store sushi boxes because that's exactly how I feel. Gari (pickled ginger) and powder wasabi mixed is standard store bought stuff nothing notable. Now, the experience for dine-in (when will that happen with SIP still in place) might be different to takeout, but there may be no differences to be honest. They do caviar and door dash only. Hope to try one more time before heading back home to sin city.

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