Mangrove Bay Sushi Bar — Restaurant in Nett

We stopped in here a couple of days for lunch after morning diving with Ponhpei Surf & Dive Club on a Saturday lunchtime, and the place was really filled up with locals and looked like the development sector crowd. Specialty of the house looking at everyone else's tables, was the deep fried chicken wings and fries. Apparently comes in huge, huger or ginormous servings LOL. First day we had Ponhpei Sashimi and Tuna Ngiri, both a success, but novel. Ponhpei Sashi is large chunks of tuna (more like large poke) with raw onion slices and sprinkled liberally with salt, we're not sure if we were to have it with added sodium in soy sauce or wasabi, but it all seemed to match. Tuna ngiri looked great, the tuna was well presented, but IMO the rice was under seasoned, just not enough vinegar/sugar etc. 2nd day there was a more limited menu, scribbled on a bit of paper, but we liked that, as half the time in Ponhpei we always kept a Plan B menu items for WHEN one of the choices was unavailable :) So we went for the Crab Sushi Roll and the "Chicken Wings". Crab Roll a winner, except it arrived with unexpected hot sauce daubed on top. The 15 piece Chix WIngs was just too much, and was greasy and heavy, but freshly cooked and piping hot. French fries were cold, I reckon cooked first, before chicken. Overall I recommend stick to the sushi and sashimi with the icy...

The restaurant serves really good food. Had 3 meals a day here including the sushi, most rolls, the sandwiches etc Their fish sandwich is actually a fish burger and it’s indeed very tasty. But my favourite were the sushi rolls. Spicy poke (tuna) was also a very good one.

We ate in some other restaurants on the island the sushi and fish was not as good. This was our favourite restaurant overall.

The time that it takes to get the meals is indeed very long. Sometimes an hour. Make sure you order without being hungry so that you’re happy to wait.

The availability of the items on the menu is also hit and miss. Some days they didn’t have any rolls, other days no sushi at all, other days no fries, just really random. Seems a bit of a lottery what you can or cannot order.

The place is great for meeting people and chatting to locals too. Fridays and Saturdays evenings are the busiest but also just during the day.

I loved ordering something and then sitting enjoying the breeze and the view with a good book. The food came when it came and got a chance to meet so many people and have some really great...

The food at Mangrove is great especially with their new menu BUT the big problem is their customer service. When taking our order, the waiter didn't repeat what he wrote on the ticket. He brought our food and instead of giving the specific person the food he just puts all of them on the table, I had 3 friends who got chicken wings with different spice levels. My friend who can't eat spicy chicken ended up eating the wrong one. The girl who served us tea brought us an extra tea we didn't ask for. We told the girl about it and she told us we need to pay for it. Imagine someone telling you to pay something you didn't ask for. Later the guy waiter brought fries which we also didn't ask for, we told him we didn't order it but guess what.... he said we need to pay for it too because it was written on the ticket. Bruh we didn't ask for side order fries. Whoever the manager is needs to train these...