Sushi garden

I haven’t dined at sushi garden for a while so we decided to stop by! Sushi Garden is known for their cheap prices and large portions for their Japanese food. Sushi Garden has a few outlets throughout the Metro Vancouver area.

Seafood salad

★★

I’ve never had this here before and was quite surprised by the amount of lettuce there was in the bowl. It also came with massago (roe), smoked salmon, imitation crab meat, tako (octopus) and sweet shrimp.

I thought that the salad was quite substantial and it definitely filled me up as far as lunch goes…but I would probably have to order a roll with it if I was here for dinner. The only thing I would have to say is that the smoked salmon was cut really badly. It looked like it was mangled, butchered and torn apart. ):

Yakiudon

★★★

Grayson got the yakiudon ($6.95) he said that the portion was smaller than he remembered and that their sauce for it probably changed because it wasn’t as good as the first few times he had it. The udon noodles still had a bite to them and the beef was tender. He liked the amount of veggies present but the green cabbage definitely could have been cut into smaller more uniform pieces…because it was a little difficult to eat since they were cut so big.

Spicy salmon sashimi

★★★

Being the spice and salmon lovers I am, I had to get the spicy salmon sashimi ($8.95) to share. Quantity wise, there wasn’t as much on the plate as the one at sushi california so I was a little disappointed there but other than that, it was pretty standard sashimi. I mean, you get what you pay for in quality right? We decided to get the spicy sauce on the side because Grayson isn’t a huge fan of spice.

Vegetable roll

I’ve never had the vegetable roll ($2.75) here before but I was pleasantly surprised with what I received because it was stuffed full of  lettuce, avocado, mango, kanpyo, and bell peppers inside.

It also came with 8 pieces instead of 6 but to be fair they were smaller rolls so I guess it’s about the same quantity wise compared to other restaurants. I didn’t know there was going to be mayo inside and I wasn’t too fond of that so now I know to order it without next time but overall it was a pretty decent roll.

Sashimi and nigiri combo

★★★

Typically it comes with 2 pieces of tuna sashimi and 2 pieces of salmon sashimi but I don’t like tuna so we asked for it to be all salmon instead. The sashimi and nigiri were pretty standard.

Negitoro roll

★★

One of Grayson’s favourite rolls so we couldn’t leave without getting one. The tuna was very soft and you could still taste the green onion so yay!