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The menu at Sushi? OK lists a lot of specialty rolls. PHOTO/ALLISON YOUNG
Sushi? OK
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had in Reno. Unfortunately, my orders of fresh water eel and octopus were missing in action. Moving on to complex nigiri, the upside With so much sushi to choose from in down shrimp was topped with rice, raw bay Reno, service and flavor have to be present scallop, scallion, black sesame seed and in equal measure for a place to compete. I Japanese mayo. This was followed by the can cope with waiting on food if the meal is Volcano, a big piece of yellowtail rolled outstanding, and a middle-of-the-road meal around a ball of rice, topped with raw bay can be improved by quick and attentive scallop, scallion, black sesame seed and service. Unfortunately, neither side of the Japanese mayo. The Hollywood featured equation made me want a repeat visit to the rice topped with sliced, raw jumbo scallop strangely named Sushi? OK. topped with cooked sea scallop, sesame The place was packed with families seeds, and toasted sesame oil. Last was the having dinner, so perhaps they were short Sexy Dory upside down shrimp, which was on supplies. We were provided a single topped with rice, sea scallop, scallion and menu for the table to share. The order slip toasted sesame oil. Overall, the flavors of included half the items listed on the extenthe two variations on upside down shrimp sive menu—and some items that weren’t and the Volcano were quite sweet and listed on the menu. We mostly indistinguishable wrote a few selections in from one another. The the margins and hoped for Hollywood stood out on the best. flavor and texture, most 1499 N. Wells Ave., 622-3874 Everything but our Sushi? OK is open Sunday through Thursday definitely something I drinks took a long time from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Friday and would order again. Saturday from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. to arrive. Appetizers took Our first long roll about 30 minutes, and was the Sancho, a mix of there were long pauses jalapeño, crystal shrimp, salmon, avocado, between plates after that. From the sizeable spicy crab, cilantro, lemon and teriyaki list of appetizers, we kept it simple with sauce. Mostly I tasted rice, sweet with a potstickers, miso soup and baked mussels. bit of heat. The Show roll—crystal shrimp, The soup and potstickers were tasty but jalapeño, spicy crab and seared tuna—had served at lukewarm temperature. More quite a bit of spice, cut by crab salad with disappointing were the nicely seasoned, a lot of mayo. The Guerra Fire roll’s mix spicy mussels that were served stone cold. of salmon, crystal shrimp, lemon and At least my sake was served a bit warmer, sesame seed was a bit overpowered by a though not really hot. Perhaps the oddest seriously fiery habanero sauce. We used things was that we were presented with bites of deep-fried Jumbo roll—shrimp, napkins, utensils and condiment dishes, but crab, cream cheese and sweet teriyaki—to we had to ask for pickled ginger and wasabi cut the heat, though I really couldn’t taste after our first dishes arrived. any fish flavors through the cream cheese, Although I appreciate hand rolls and batter and sauce. long rolls, nigiri sushi is my favorite. The Three other rolls were ordered but rice-to-fish ratio and freshness of fish apparently forgotten, so we decided to just were adequate. I sampled tuna, yellowtail, skip them and move on. Sitting for two salmon, snapper and mackerel—which was hours for a partial order is about my limit about as fresh-tasting as any mackerel I’ve for adequate-to-mediocre food. Ω
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