Diana B.
Yelp
As a California ex-patriat, I was pretty sure I'd be hard-pressed to find any sushi in land-locked Oklahoma at all. I was brave and tried a few places and said to my daughter hopefully "yeah, that was okay" thinking secretly I was done with sushi forever. That is the one thing I miss about California - the food. Everything else is better here, truly.
But then my son convinced me, after reading a post on Reddit, that we should try one last time... OH MY GOD I am so glad I did. Outside it didn't look like much. A decent sign over an old building on the outskirts of the fanciest neighborhood in town, Nichols Hills... been there since 1981 - that's always a good sign. Walking in and checking out the menu and you could tell it was authentic - lots of Japanese clientele, the menu was a complete sushi / Japanese menu, even if they do place "California roll" at the top to appease midwesterners who have never tried sushi.
And we tried our old favorites from California - mine was spider roll, my son's was California roll, the yellowtail, salmon, miso soup, his soup (I forgot the name of the traditional soup - he speaks Japanese and I'm just a boomer), and a few market price orders as well (bluefin tuna) - what a HUGE surprise! So tender, light and fresh! so delicate - such flavor - even the salmon was tender. It was farrrr better than the last 30 or so times I've eaten Sushi in Los Angeles! We spoke to the female sushi chef (nice to see that break with tradition - she was amazing) and asked her how this could be so far inland. She mentioned they fly the fish in and also mentioned their 60 degree below zero freezer, which my son said freezes things so quickly they don't have the ill-effect of being slow frozen (hence maybe the mushy texture at those other local sushi joints).
The miso tasted home-made delicious, we had freshly ground wasabi, touches like that you can't find in the big city of LA where everyone coasts on their reputation. Everything we sampled was amazing, authentic and delicious and I cannot for the life of me figure out why any of the other reviewers had complaints, claimed things weren't "properly prepared" (unless you think fish should be mushy) and gave anything less than five stars. That's just ridiculous. Also we went at 1:30 in the afternoon on Saturday, sat at the sushi bar and had no wait, immediate service and our big platter of sushi was made in minutes. Even the spider roll came pretty quickly (they have to fry the crab first).
The only thing that made me debate writing this review is do I really want all those California people flocking to my new secret place?
Sorry no photos - we ate it all up.