Mark F.
Yelp
Nozomi is still one of my favorite sushi locations in the south bay area. It's located sort of behind the 85c on carson st. and western ave. They've been here forever and still gathers a good crowd every night. During the pandemic, takeout sushi was first stopped then limited to the chirashi. Chirashi is usually a sushi type rice with different toppings, this one of course has select fish pieces which is pretty delicious. Now they have two versions, a basic one box chirashi which i added uni (sea urchin roe) for 32 dollars. I think this cheaper box is a decent lunch time size for most, but if you want premium fish cuts and a little more variety, like amae ebi (sweet shrimp) where they will cook the shrimp head in the miso soup then get the premium box. In the premium you get a small salad, and two boxes. One has the rice which is a nice mushroom mixed rice, with a nori sprinkled on it. On top of that was a nice piece of eel (unagi), ikura (salmon roe), and they put the 3 pieces of fresh uni (sea urchin roe) on there as well. The other box was just the sashimi (raw fish) and tamago, which i love. Two nice cubes of seasoned dashi tamago (seasoned egg omelete), 2 maguro (tuna), 2 hamachi (yellow tail), 1 tai (sea bream), 2 sake (salmon), 1 hokikai (surf clam), 1 amae ebi (sweet shrimp), 1 aji (spanish mackeral). Which doesn't sound like a lot, but it's filling. You also get a couple pieces of kamaboko (fish cake) and the heaping of ginger and wasabi (horse radish). For those who don't know how to eat this, you can mix the soy and wasabi and drizzle it over the fish and then eat, or just eat like sashimi which is just dipping the fish in the soy/wasabi mix and then eating some of the rice with it. In Japan, the fish would all be on top of the rice, but since they want to keep the presentation nice, they put it in two boxes. The premium box like this can vary, i had it with i think hotate (scallop), akagai (red clam), chu toro (mid fatty tuna). Anyways, it's pretty delicious, this place it's always fresh. Oh and a quick japanese lesson lol, japanese can look itimidating but it's all just syllables based on a, i, u, e, o which in same order is pronounced a = ahh, i = eee (like eel), u = (ew), e = (like eh), o = "like oh". And all words are just broken into the syllables like sashimi sa = sah, shi = she, mi = me, which makes it pretty simple way to pronounce words. Anyways, go enjoy some good fish.