Suspicious Hiro

Sushiro (一, 二, 三, 四, 五, 六, 七, 八, 九,十, 十一, 十二, 十三, 十四, 十五, 十六) is a pretty good place for fries and beer. #notjustsaying. Their fries are pretty decent IMNSHO and their mugs of Suntory have consistently been served satisfyingly chilled. Anywaysss...another compilation of eats. Some new, some old...some kokumi, some cold. 🤔 What's that last one again?

Shake and ikura gunkan. Nice with those pink fatty slivers of salmon and bursty briny roe.

Guilty pleasure of mentaiko and mayo gunkan.

Sujiko is apparently in season.

What's better than a sujiko wrap is a sujiko wrap with aburi-ed shirako! This one was both briny and creamy.

Uni croquette. The inside was hot, smooth and creamy. This was nice but I'm not sure what to make of the inside because I'm not sure if I tasted uni or not. But it's nice.

We've never gotten the corn mayo gunkan before so here's a first. Those firm corn kernels were not bad tasting. 

Houbou nigiri. Red gunnard. Fish was freshly fried and pretty good eating. Crispy tail's edible.

The uni season brings their uni butter dry ramen. Noodle texture aside, this wasn't bad with the uni and uni cream sauce and butter. There's onions and shiso to cut through the creaminess.

Tuna toro with lumpfish caviar. Needs more caviar.

Matsukasa cut squid aburi-ed and glazed with shoyu. Quite nice. Better than the generic raw variety because the torching imparts the squid-y flavour.

Uni & avocado with lumpfish caviar wrap. I liked this. Ordered it with low expectations and it turned out pretty good and creamy. Pretty sure there was something citrus like yuzu in it. Have had this a few times. Nice.

Miso soup with seaweed and okra.

Strawberry panna cotta's not great. The pudding tasted like a thin strawberry milk. Most of the strawberry flavour came from the sauce and those seriously chilled diced bits of fruit.

Edamame tempura. Think the bean clusters were held together with mashed potato.

Salmon with Hokkaido cream cheese and basil pesto. Nice. Cream cheese added an enjoyable creamy richness to this.

Salmon with Camembert. Not as tasty as the one with cream cheese. Camembert was muted in flavour.

Shiojime cod tempura. Looked nothing like their product shot. Fish was a lot smaller. This tasted like fish and chips on rice. Did not taste bad at all but I expected a much bigger piece of fried fish.

Not feeling much with the shiojime cod. Yes this was the raw version of the previous fish. Meat was firm but didn't have much identity.

This was puchi puchi tobiko mozuku gunkan. Gemini tells me that puchi puchi is an onomatopoeic word that sounds like the popping or bursting of bubbles. In other words, bursty. I get it. Tobiko is flying fish roe and mozuku is a type of seaweed. Flavour's vinegary.

Chicken meatball gunkan.

Sesame marinated Japanese sardine. Not fond of this one. The marinate stripped most of the natural character, both flavour and texture, from the fish. There's some yuzu flavour in it which wasn't enough to win me over.

Marinated hotaru ika in squid ink. Strong briny and squid-y flavour. No squid ink taste. Pretty salty. Wouldn't eat it again.

A guilty pleasure of shredded crabsticks and mayo.

Menu called this aglio olio. It's kinda it. Japanese udon aglio olio I suppose. Garlicky and spicy with loads of small meaty clams. This was delicious with a few squeezes of shoyu. Nice! 👍🏼

Current seasonal dessert is cheese datemaki melba. I'm not sure where the 'cheese' part came in but I like the eggy datemaki. Soft serve on the side has a nice vanilla taste.

Matcha warabimochi parfait from Nana's Green Tea

Hmmm...nice one from Nana's Green Tea - like a lux version of the one we've been getting from Sushiro. Apart from the larger size, there's also better layering to get ingredients like the cream spread out and there's some tea jelly inside as well. That's a matcha soda at the back there...refreshing for the hot weather that came with a bonus razor burn down the throat. 😬

Sushiro from last Halloween until......

Another compilation of Sushiro (一, 二, 三, 四, 五, 六, 七, 八, 九,十, 十一, 十二, 十三, 十四, 十五) eats.

Recently we've encountered added cheese to their sweet tamagoyaki nigiri. Adding cheese made it nicer...I'm almost reminded of cheesecake.

Lobster croquette - could get those crustacean-y flavour in the creamy centre. Okay tasting but was pretty greasy. Looked at the soak in the background.

I wonder why the sardine tempura nigiri aren't a regular item. I think they're not bad tasting.

The quality of their aburi engawa nigiri appears to have gone up somewhat. It's not longer that measly strip of fin these days. I hope they preserve this quality in quantity same moving forward. 

Pretty good shrimp tempura nigiri which had fresh tasting prawns. These were well fried to the point that the crispy tails could be eaten with ease.

Some cheesy fried mushroom wrap. Not bad tasting. Was freshly fried with a whole cap of mushroom inside. Tasted meaty.

Don't recall having had gindara nigiri before. This one was aburi shoyu gindara. Fish was chewier than the cooked variety and didn't particularly remind me of the flavour when it's cooked.

Not passing on the ankimo gunkan.

Yes we have gotten fries here. They aren't bad. Heh heh......

With winter comes shirako. Tempura-ed with ankake. Not bad but I don't know why they had to do this with so much grated ginger.

We were somewhat conned, once, with an order of shishamo tempura. The first fish was filled with plenty of roe. The rest of the fishes from the same plate had none. While I generally like them for their roe, I was actually ok with these without.

Amusingly named 'boss level scallop stack'...

Hokkaido squid tororo konbu. Squid was unexpectedly gummy which we didn't like. Couldn't make out anything distinctive with that tororo konbu. 

While this fried aji was suppose to be a nigiri, one could tell that not much care or follow up with its processing and presentation aligned with the intent. We ordered this for fried aji, not so much because we wanted a nigiri version as well so I guess we might all be looking at it the same way.

Their warabi mochi parfait has upgraded the waffle. It's now a sandwich with a thin layer of cream in the middle. Nice.