dear lord...the hamachi and maguro look grossly huge.

i havent been to hanako but il make sure to try it out since i live pretty close

sushi garden looks pretty good too

has anyone tried i love sushi? i like it there my fav spot for now

that sushi garden shit is REALLY nasty. there should be two sushi threads.

1. Quality Sushi in Vancouver
2. Quantity Sushi in Vancouver

you high? sushi garden is fucking amazing

Sushi Garden is better than Samurai Sushi, I can say that :p

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-..._7180949_n.jpg

Tried the love boat with my girl, I ended up eating 75% of it...LOL

If you think Sushi Garden is amazing, you're not much of a connoisseur. There's too much rice on the inside-out rolls, the rolls looks like they were made by an amateur, the sashimi isn't very high grade, and the arrangement of the sushi/sashimi is also amateurish.

jason (senna4ever) was a sushi chef at a popular yaletown eatery for years so I think he knows a thing or 2 about sushi.

Best Sushi in Richmond: Charcoal Sushi on Westminster Highway
 

This restaurant serves the best sushi and Korean bbq that I ever had in Richmond. :thumbsup:

7997 Westminster Hwy, Unit 250

-went there for lunch with a friend recently. Delicious sushi rolls. The servers are attentive and definitely know the menu items.

Recommend this sushi roll:

Big Roller ( Chopped Scallop + Tempura Crunch topped with Unagi and Avocado ).

-will definitely go back to Charcoal to try out their dinner menu and Korean BBQ.

The only drawback to this restaurant is the location. Because Charcoal is on the 2nd floor next to London Drugs, the restaurant is not visible on the street level when you drive down that part of Richmond.

Good reviews on dinehere.ca: http://dinehere.ca/richmond/charcoal...bbq-restaurant

cant believe cheap ass mofo actually thinks korean sushi is GOOD quality.
:rolleyes: they are big, and thats about it.

Is Charcoal the one that took the spot of the korean place between London Drugs and the Chinese Seafood restaurant?

yeah its the restaurant that replaced kimchi nara. i've heard good things about it but haven't tried it yet.

So where would you recommend for best bang for buck?

I never go for cheap. Food isn't worth being cheap. My personal favourites are Octopus' Garden on Cornwall and Maple, Kingyo (more of an Izakaya) on Denman & Haro, Yuji's Japanese Tapas on 4th & Burrard, Shiro on Cambie & 15th, or Tokiwa on Oak and 22nd. Of all the places I listed, Shiro is probably the best bang for the buck.

I used to go to Kibune on Cornwall & Yew, but they've really dropped in quality recently. Their prices are also a bit high. I didn't mind the high prices, as the food was good. I've noticed hardly any Japanese people there anymore, just Kits locals who don't know any better.

i agree abt shiro being the best value.

^never been there, always line up ?

no

cheap and good sushi does not go into the same sentence

senna, do you know any restaurants locally that serve buri or shako?

often a line around dinner time.
go with 2 people you wont really wait long

Anyone been to Aki on thurlow? It's down a flight of stairs on the left.

My favs are Sushi Hachi, Kiyo, Marua, Seto Sushi.
But better yet when I get it made at home with the more rare fresh rices right out of japan the really expensive fresh tasty shit you cant get here :p

Buri is a strange thing. It's not available on a consistent basis in Vancouver. The supplier would call us or the salesman would come by and tell us when the Buri is going to come in and if we would like a fillet. In our case, it's so similar to Hamachi I rarely ordered it. Sometime I wouldn't order Hamachi and bring in the Buri just for kicks. One thing many people don't know is that Buri and Hamachi are the same fish. Buri is the adult fish, Hamachi is the juvenile. There is also a name for a baby Buri that is smaller than Hamachi, about 30cm long, but I forgot its name - I just remember it as being very tasty! :p I personally don't like eating Hamachi/Buri because 100% of the fish sold here is farmed and air lifted from Japan - this is why it's so expensive here. In Japan, Hamachi isn't very popular, and it's very cheap. The baby Hamachi is wild caught, not as fatty, and it doesn't have that metallic aftertaste that farmed fish tend to have.

Taiko sushi on denman and alberni used to have unlimited salmon sashimi for lunch at the of 13.95 but it just changed recently , time to find a better place :(
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damn i can really use an Uni shooter right about now...

thanks for the recommendation of those places, been to a few but you list some great choices

Sushi Paradise in new westminister offers great sushi and a relatively inexpensive price.

Probably the closest you'll get to cheap but good.there is another thread with a few reviews about it

http://www.sushiparadise.ca/
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