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Decent happy hour and full menu at decent prices with above average fish on not so decent rice in a perfectly convenient location with an open and rel…
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Their server Alex gives absolutely no respect to student age people. I am eighteen years old and I tip everytime I go, yet this server insists each ti…
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9 Reviews on “Sansai Sushi”
Their server Alex gives absolutely no respect to student age people. I am eighteen years old and I tip everytime I go, yet this server insists each time I or friends go in that we must sit in the corner and cannot sit at a table or booth, even when they are all vacant. When I asked her why she gave the response of that was just what they do with school aged people (since my high school is located closeby). Getting tired of being put in the corner when I am a paying customer. Please seat yourself unless your young.
Mothra Says…Quality AND Quantity. A few months back we are figuratively standing around the water cooler (do people really still do that?) and Ana tells me about a really great Japanese restaurant on 21st and Hoyt in the NW. She says not only tasty but huge portions. Shes never been disappointed.Now remember this is probably 3 months back, but Mothra has a great memory when it comes to good food, great wine, and believe it or not…. numbers.So I tell K about this place and although I have a desire and need for sushi much more often than she, K does indeed love good Japanese food. For the 4th of July, this area of Portland is pretty quiet for the noon lunch hour. We find parking with ease and stroll the half block to SanSai. We are greeted at the door and seat ourselves. The restaurant is about 25% full at this time and Fabiola asks us for our drink order. A hot sake for K and a tall draft Sapporo for Moth. She returns shortly and takes our entre order. This is a rather eclectic street with an array of small businesses with a homey neighborhood feel. It does rival 23rd ave but I am guessing does not have the lease prices of the more famous big brother two blocks over. The patrons today are locals and run the gamut from young to older, couples and groups of friends as well. Within 5 minutes our deep fried tempura spicy tuna arrives and looks gorgeous. This was a large roll of maybe 8 pieces. Woof. Now I am hoping that my lunch entre is smaller or else I am in.. too late: Here comes lunch and this is one grande plate of tempura, a bowl of rice, and two salads, one sumi and the other the noodle salad. The sumi is a cabbage salad with pepper, rice wine vinegar, and a sweet spicy slaw like sauce. I have not had this type of salad before and it was de-lish! My noodles were tossed in sweet hot vinegar with pepper, cucumber, and some shredded carrot. The tempura had about 5 pieces of shrimp, a broccoli floret, a mushroom, many green beans, onion, zucchini, eggplant, and acorn squash. Wow! What a meal and I took about half home. Ks plate was equally impressive as she had the tempura with a fresh 8 pc California roll. In addition, her two salads were the noodle and a cucumber seaweed salad. It had rice wine vinegar, sweet and tangy, thin strips of red bell pepper and red onion. Very tasty indeed.This lunch is just what the Mothra ordered and we will be back. With a 25% tip, out the door at $33. Great food, large portions, Fabiolas good service (not intrusive but available if I needed her), & reasonable prices. Mothra says, Ana, good call! 3.80 of 5.0 On a side note, I have noticed that looking at the last 5 or 6 Asian restaurants that I have dined in, that yes, the entrepreneur takes the risk. But in front of the restaurant and in the kitchen, many Hispanic employees working very hard and making that restaurant a success. A generalization yes, but a very hard working group of people.
Happy Hour: not impressive. It was probably because we ate at happy hour, but the sushi was just not very good. We had miso and edamame as well. The miso was great, but you can’t really mess that up; the edamame was undercooked. The waitress barely looked at us and never smiled… in fact, she really didn’t say much of anything. We kept saying thank you, just to see if she would acknowledge us… she did not. Sadly, we will not be going back.
Why?. There is plenty of sushi in Portland. DO NOT waste time and money here. It is VERY cheap…but, it tastes like it too!
There are so many good sushi places in Portland… This is not one of them! It is VERY cheap though. Perhaps that should have been a sign!
Krisanne: It’s just, like, the always good stand-by. Jim: Great service and decent sushi. AND always a deal. Love it.
This place was so great. We had a group of 10 and everyone loved their entire meal. The service was promy and friendly. We hit all day happy hour, 50% off about 1/3 of the sushi menu on top of already being very reasonably priced. Phenominal dining experince!