Hana Sushi

It was quite a nice snowy Saturday and we decided to eat dinner before heading back home.

We decided to stop by at The Crystal Mall food court and I ordered from a place called Hana Sushi.

This is the Katsu Curry. You can see half of the picture on the menu sign up top on the left side. The pork itself was very good, both moist inside and crispy on the outside. As for the curry, I'm not sure how I should put it. At first taste, it's quite salty. You get hints of it being curry, but it's not flavorful. The sauce tasted like a curry cream paste. I didn't enjoy the salty curry, but the pork was very good. My dad ordered from the same place and said his dish was salty as well. Everywhere you go nowadays, people have such a high tolerance of salt. The more salted items we eat, the less salty we think it really is.



Location:

Hana Sushi (The Crystal Mall Food Court)
4500 Kingsway
Burnaby, BC
1-604-434-1772
1-604-438-6263 (The Crystal Mall's #)
http://www.thecrystalmall.ca

In the mood for...

Japanese Food. We had a few choices as to where we could go in Richmond city. We ended up going to Aji Taro just because we can't remember what their food taste like. Yes, we're quite random. Instead of eating all you can eat, we decide to order off the menu instead. All I can say is, my taste buds were confused through out the entire meal. We started off with a Boat Combo and it came with Miso Soup. The Miso Soup was pretty salt. The entire meal was pretty salty except a few things.

I'm one of those Asian child that don't eat raw fish and believe me, I've tried it before and it doesn't settle well. I really liked their salad; it was crisp and refreshing. The Chicken Karaage (wings) lacked some salt. It was pretty bland and yet, the California Roll was salty enough that I didn't need the soy sauce. Talk about confusion with the flavors. The experience of eating the California Roll was like eating baby food.

This Chicken Teriyaki came with the Boat Combo. It had a bit too much sauce in the Yakisoba and it was a tad bit sweet, but generally it tasted pretty good.

Obviously, we had no idea that the rolls were that salty when we ordered these. Salty and mushy.

Deep Fried Ika or squid. Again, the salad was very delicious and the deep fried squid was good as well. I only wished that it was a bit more dried or deep fried longer to get rid of the moisture.

BBQ Ika Yaki or grilled BBQ squid. It had a very pungent squid smell and taste to it, which means it's not that fresh. I had 2-3 pieces and ate the vegetables.

I'm starting to think I'm becoming a health nut, but I'm actually suppose to watch what I eat. Everything just taste extremely salty and sweet to me nowadays. My only temptations would be ice cream and chocolate. The chocolate part is easy to solve if you want a less sweeter version of it and just go for dark chocolate. Ice cream, sorbet or gelato is a bit harder to solve when almost every single item out there is so sweet. I have found a few vanilla chocolate dipped bars that aren't too sweet. If anyone knows any brand that has a less sweeter version, please let me know, thanks.



Location:

Aji Taro
101-4940 No. 3 Road
Richmond, BC
1-604-273-3838

All you can eat...

At Richmond Sushi. That's where we went for lunch today. I won't get into an elaborate post today, since I'm dead tired from manual work. However, you'll get a few more photos than normal. The service we had today was absolutely awesome. She was speedy, efficient and never missed anything. The lunch menu for "all you can eat" is very limited. I didn't see any Tempura Prawns, Unagi or Tamago as an individual item, but I'm sure that's available during dinner time. Some items were good and some weren't, but I've had better "all you can eat" elsewhere. I don't know whether to label it as average or just a bit more than average.

To start off, we've got Miso Soup in the red and black bowl. In the back we have Ebi Sunomono, Fried Scallops and Agedashi Tofu. The Miso Soup was so-so, Ebi Sunomono was refreshing, Fried Scallops was good and the Agedashi Tofu was not so good to eat or look at, either.

We have Chicken Karaage in the front, which, was pretty good. It's not greasy and salty at all and it's quite crispy. The Gyoza on the right of the Chicken karaage was pretty disgusting. The Beef Spare Ribs above the Gyoza was so tender and flavorful. As for the Motoyaki (in the tin cup), I don't know what it taste like since I don't like oyster.

This particular Chicken Yakitori tasted quite different from what I've had at other places. It's not bad or good, but at least it had flavor and it was white meat.

Bring on the sushi rolls. In the front row, we have, B.C. Roll. In the middle, it's Dynamite Roll. At the very back, it's Futomaki Roll. They were just so-so.

California Roll on the left and Spider Roll on the right. Again, these were just so-so, but the Spider Roll had a nice texture.

This was called, Curry Croquette. When I was in Culinary Arts, that shape is not what we considered as croquette. However, it was light and fluffy and the taste of curry was really mild and sweet. The outside was really crispy.

Split Salmon head; it was quite tender. We did order more, but they didn't look too pretty to post and I'm lazy. The Yakisoba and Seafood Fried Rice was bland in taste and plain to look at. The Teriyaki Chicken and Beef was literally drenched in sauce.



Location:

Richmond Sushi
8388 Capstan Way #1488
Richmond, BC
1-604-207-7799