Asahi Japanese Restaurant
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The best vegetarian rolls! They make sushi beautiful and fun…
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Asahi Japanese Restaurant
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Great friendly service and sushi is top notch. Get the shogun or kamikaze rolls...they're great!…
Carey Johnston
Asahi Japanese Restaurant
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Sushi and tempura was good. Chicken teriyaki was tough and overlooked.…
Atkinwa
Asahi Japanese Restaurant
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6 Reviews on “Asahi Japanese Restaurant”
The best vegetarian rolls! They make sushi beautiful and fun
Great friendly service and sushi is top notch. Get the shogun or kamikaze rolls…they’re great!
Sushi and tempura was good. Chicken teriyaki was tough and overlooked.
Great food. I don’t know why this restaurant isn’t crowded every day. The food is excellent – the best Japanese I’ve had in the area. The people are really nice too. They can be slow, but the quality of the food makes up for it. This is a winner!
Recommended, but skip the tempura. I’ve eaten at Asahi many times, so obviously I like it enough to keep returning. The food is generally very good and attractively presented. The salad that comes with the entree is just the right size, fresh and simple. The dressing is delicious and served in just the right amount to flavor the salad rather than drown it. The miso soup is probably the best I’ve ever had (and I’ve had a lot in my Japanese American life).Service is without exception prompt and courteous, usually warm and friendly, attentive but never intrusive.The atmosphere is quiet and calming without being sleepy. It’s a great restaurant to have effortless conversation (if you’re the type who tires of shouting across the table to be heard). The clientele is well-mannered. This restaurant does not attract obnoxious patrons.My only complaint is the tempura. Tempura should be delicately crispy, preferably with a light batter made with panko bread crumbs. It should not resemble fish ‘n chips. Some pieces of shrimp were so heavily fried it was like eating at KFC (and sounded like it). And rather than a few large shrimp with a colorful assortment of vegetables, my plate had 5-6 rods of shrimp arranged like a teepee, with one long bean, one carrot chip, one onion ring, and two other unknown vegetables hiding underneath – the weirdest tempura presentation I’ve ever seen. No garnishes at all (no radish flower, carrot peel rose, or even a sprig of parsley). Definitely and surprisingly not at all Japanese in presentation. As soon as it was put down on the table it struck me as just thrown together (all the more odd considering we were one of only three parties in the restaurant). I was a little startled, after all my previous positive experiences there.Also, you only get one ice cream scoop of rice! I was shocked! This is a Japanese dinner, not a school lunch! You can’t eat a Japanese meal with just one scoop of rice! If money is tight, why not cut back on the shrimp, use more vegetables, and give the customer a proper BOWL of rice?Let me just add that the green tea is also surprisingly disappointing. Instead of loose leaf Japanese tea, they use those trendy triangular tea bags, and it’s tasteless, no matter how long you steep it. Maybe real ban cha is too expensive for them, but it sure detracts from a Japanese dining experience to have disappointing non-Japanese tea.Like I said, I keep going back, and I do recommend the restaurant overall. Just be sure you do not order the tempura.
Salad and soup before entree is nice. The sushi was only good for people who eat it for the first time. To an experienced sushi eater, this is definitely not enough. The service was curteous.