Curtis Carter
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TL;DR: Amazing Food, Great Service, and less than ideal lighting for photos. Try the Poke Bowls or a Rice Box.
We stopped in after hearing great things about this downtown japanase restaurant. The hype was not high enough for how good this food was.
I had a "Pick Your Own Bowl". The price is based on the number of "Proteins" you pick among other upgrades. I went fairly basic with 2 proteins (spicy tuna and spicy salmon) on a base of spinach and fried rice ($1 upcharge). I also added mushrooms (shitaki if I guessed right), avocados, ginger, edamame, and fried garlic. I also had some masago (a type of fish egg) added, but it did not stand out enough to be worth adding. On our servers recommendation, I picked Yum Yum for the sauce (and it was delicious) but I believe next time I'll go for something more interesting like Mango sauce and teriyaki seaweed on top.
My daughter had the kids teriyaki chicken. She loved it. It came with fried rice (which she also likes) and some story fry vegetables (which she avoided like they had the plague).
My wife had a rice box which looked much flashier than my poke bowl, but was every bit as good. Aside from the expected fried rice, she got teriyaki chicken, cream cheese wontons, tempura shrimp, and tempura chicken. The dipping sauce in the middle was some kind of slightly fruity-sweet chili sauce. The sauce amazing, and I think I could eat it and the chicken/shrimp without any other sides (and I'm not a huge fan of shrimp tempura).
We are already planning our next visit.
Update: on our next visit I tried the milk tea boba drinks. Wow! Best boba I've ever had. I got a Mango milk tea with Mango popping boba and even my wife who doesn't care for mango liked it. Additionally, aside from popping and tapioca boba, they carry crystal boba (less chewy than tapioca).
Before we left, I asked for whatever the server recommends to try. She came back with a Lychee and Coconut drink that was to die for. Absolutely delicious.