Sushi no Midori

Sushi is superb and price is good but beware if you do not understand Japanese. The main point of my post is my group’s experience at this store. We walked in and ordered on the tablet - there were English menu available on the tablet so ordering was easy. One of the items we ordered is a grilled fish collar bone (please remember this note because it will come up later). In the middle of our meal, a waitress came and presented a huge grilled fish collar bone in all Japanese and indicated a “five” with her hand. The “five” did not make sense to us because we were a table of four and since none of us understood Japanese I thought she meant to split it into five pieces. As we ate the fish collar bone, we started a conversation about why the grilled collar bone is cold. My father had a theory about how this is a sushi store so everything should be served cold so it is better for the palate tasting experience…. 🤔 (I did not agree with my dad’s theory). After we started eating, another smaller plate of grilled collar bone is served. That is when we realized the smaller collar bone is what we originally ordered (and it was served hot). I was naive enough to think the bigger collar bone was free because earlier they had to cancel one of our dishes earlier because it was sold out so I thought this was a gesture of kindness with parts of the fish they probably didn’t have other customers who want it since it was served cold and was not on the menu (maybe already prepared for quite a while). Because of the big collar bone, we couldn’t finish what we probably ordered and so my mom proceeded to ask for a take out box for the cooked food. The waitress then pulled out her phone and used google translate to explain to us they can let us do takeout with our consent - I think this is for health and safety reasons (again another important point to remember for the latter part of my story). Little did we know, when we saw the bill, the big collar bone became one of the most expensive dish on our meal costing 5500 yen. You can call me stupid and I already blame myself but I really think it was unfair for them to not make sure we understand that we are paying for a dish we didn’t order. It was very clear that no one at our table understood Japanese. And clearly the waitress had the ability to translate it with her google translate app on her phone when my mom tried to get a take out box but didn’t bother to do that with the 5500 yen fish. I also think it was my fault for being lazy or too trusting and not trying to use the google translate app on my own phone but note there was no wifi for customers in the restaurant and I don’t have an unlimited data plan. The whole event also happened very quick and I was not in my working mode but in my eating mode. I also thought it was dubious that she only presented the large collar bone to our table and no other tables. The two tables with us are all locals…. I will probably never visit this store again and whenever anyone starts to say things in a language I don’t understand, I am going to make it my reflex to pull out google translate even if it means data fees because at the end of the day I don't think a few mb will be more than 5500 yen. I am also going to make it a goal to start learning Japanese. (I guess I will try to be happy about this experience thinking that the large collar bone tasted quite good).