Just tried Okami brand sushi from the store...

UglyCasanova

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Yuck!

Here is what they look like. I was at the grocery store and saw these and decided hey why not. Terrible! $5 down the drain.

:(
 

Nik

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If you pay $5 for sushi, you will be eating garbage.

If you purchase sushi from a grocery store, you will be eating garbage.
 

UglyCasanova

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I've had cheap sushi and I've had grocery store sushi (although it was made at the grocery store). This was made who knows where, who knows when, and more than likely by a machine rolling these crap ingredients together. You live you learn.
 

Saint Nick

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The Krogers around here have sushi and its decent. But it is made fresh daily and costs about nine bucks.
 

Ns1

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Yuck!

Here is what they look like. I was at the grocery store and saw these and decided hey why not. Terrible! $5 down the drain.

:(

that's not sushi, that's pre-packaged american-japanese cuisine

beloved patriot-japanese
 

Nik

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wow TBH im happily surprised a conveyor belt restaurant of any kind actually exists. ive never see one in person and thought they only existed in movies

There's, like, a half dozen within 10 miles of me right now. They're never as bad as grocery store sushi, but they're nowhere near as good as a normal-person-restaurant.

My cousin worked at one of those conveyor belt sushi places here and said he'll never go to another one after what he's seen. The food just sits there getting warm and stale. No highly controlled temps, no nothing. The sushi at places like that really are sub-par (at least every single one around here anyway).

I'd much rather go to a 4-star sushi restaurant, pay a little more, and get food that actually tastes like it should.
 

HumblePie

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The HEB's around here have sushi areas sometimes like the Krogers in Houston. Not the greatest sushi, but not bad either. It is made freshdaily and there is usually someone there to make whatever you ask for.
 

Terzo

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Anubis

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There's, like, a half dozen within 10 miles of me right now. They're never as bad as grocery store sushi, but they're nowhere near as good as a normal-person-restaurant.

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really where do you live? and are they all sushi ones or all types of food
 

Nik

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really where do you live? and are they all sushi ones or all types of food

NW Oregon and they're all sushi. You can order stuff from a menu, like sushi rolls, sashimi, etc. and they'll make it for you right there which is awesome so it doesn't warm up and get stale, but you're still sitting there in a restaurant that smells like warm stale sushi.
 

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Yeah; here in the Pacific Northwest (I'm near Seattle, myself) conveyor belt sushi can be easily found
 

D1gger

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There are several conveyor belt (or boat) sushi places in Vancouver, and they are very good. They are also very busy, so the food doesn't sit on the conveyor very long.
 

dud

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Yuck!

Here is what they look like. I was at the grocery store and saw these and decided hey why not. Terrible! $5 down the drain.

:(



You should have known better when you see "Fully Cooked" and "Sushi" on the package.

That's an oxymoron.
 

TuxDave

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If you pay $5 for sushi, you will be eating garbage.

If you purchase sushi from a grocery store, you will be eating garbage.

Agree on the grocery store unless it's a Japanese grocery store. Nay on the $5. Maybe it's just where you live but in the Bay Area, you can easily get good sushi for $5 a roll.
 

techs

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wow TBH im happily surprised a conveyor belt restaurant of any kind actually exists. ive never see one in person and thought they only existed in movies

There's, like, a half dozen within 10 miles of me right now. They're never as bad as grocery store sushi, but they're nowhere near as good as a normal-person-restaurant.

My cousin worked at one of those conveyor belt sushi places here and said he'll never go to another one after what he's seen. The food just sits there getting warm and stale. No highly controlled temps, no nothing. The sushi at places like that really are sub-par (at least every single one around here anyway).

I'd much rather go to a 4-star sushi restaurant, pay a little more, and get food that actually tastes like it should.

I've been to a few. Dinner and a show. FTW