Yes! It's been awhile since I've talked about sushi on this here blog and that is because there really wasn't any reason to with
Nakamura Sushi hogging all the spotlight for the past year or so but there's a new sushi bar in town ladies and gents and that place is the dark and mysterious
Dragon* Sake and Sushi Bar! It's located within the recently remodeled
China Garden and opened a couple months ago and my friend Thinh and I have been dying to try it out for weeks. The last time we tried going there it just so happened to be a Monday and they told us that the sushi bar was closed on Mondays. Epic FAILURE...for us at least. If memory serves though I believe we went and ate at Nakamura instead (which is closed on Sundays by the way) and had a grand time eating the competition's sushi while thinking to ourselves, "how good could China Garden's sushi really be anyway? It's your typical asian-american buffet restaurant after all, right?" Well I can tell you tonight that we were absolutely wrong about those silly assumtions and had a GREAT dinner at the new Dragon* sushi bar which is located in what used to be the smoking section of the old sports bar area of the restuarant. When you first walk in, you will notice candles lit on cool little black tables, flat screen televisions, mood music, and it's darker than my balls in there but that's what makes it hip and romantic probably. Nakamura now looks like a Luby's cafeteria compared to this place. We seated ourselves at the bar, and we then realized that the place was EMPTY. Not a good thing you would think, but those worries left our minds once we were given complimentary miso soups without having even ordered yet. They also gave us this cold plate of some kind of pickled meat drenched in what I think was sesame oil that tasted utterly amazing. Sarah being the devout and unstraying vegetarian unsurprisingly chose to order the Veggie Rolls, which were incredibly huge and tasty looking. She could only eat about half of the eight
peices "chunks" that they made for her. Thinh and I on the other hand, ate almost everything that we ordered which included an
Unagi (Eel) Roll, the China Garden Roll, Yoo Hoo Roll, and
the Alvin Roll, named (and probably created by) after the owner, Mr. Alvin Lin. I can't remember if Thinh also ordered the
Kobe Roll or not because he did mention wanting to try it but I don't remember eating anything with tamago (sweet egg) in it so maybe not. I do remember drinking some pretty cold $9 sake though. My only regret? Not finishing all of said $9 sake! :(
I tried taking some pictures with my cell phone but alas it was too dark so here are a few pictures from their website,
chinagardentx.com of some of the things we gorged ourselves on:
*Sushi bar did not really have any dragons nor did they serve any species of dragon unfortunately.
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