I ate a pleasant meal yesterday [9-12-2022] at Oshio [Sushi • Kitchen • Bar] at 974 W. Fifth Ave. in the "Fifth by Northwest" neighborhood of Columbus.

Oshio does not open until 4:00 p.m. most days so I had to carefully plan my visit so that I would arrive after they had opened.

Old-timers like me who remember the former Sohio gas stations [Standard Oil of Ohio] [that had been in Ohio between 1911 and 1991] will be able to spell the word "Oshio" by switching the first two letters of the word "Sohio" and then reversing the capitalization.

Before arriving at Oshio, I had been unable to decide between two potential food choices but ended up ordering both of those food choices because one of them had actually been an appetizer.

I first ordered my first food choice: "Crispy Rice" [panko breaded rice, avocado, serrano pepper, spicy mayo, eel sauce, and your choice of either spicy tuna or spicy crab. (4x)].

I had been assuming that that my "Crispy Rice" would have been the same size as a full-sized bowl of fried rice [except that it would have included "crispy rice" instead of "regular rice"] when in fact it had been an "appetizer" that had consisted of four vertically-presented biscuit-sized blocks of white rice with additional food items on top. The rice had been fried so that it would stick together as a single piece and then had been topped with the above-described food items.

I picked up the first of the four pieces of "Crispy Rice" but it fell apart as soon as I had picked it up. I asked my server for a fork since my hands had not been working at all for picking up the falling-apart "Crispy Rice" pieces and I could not figure out how to use chopsticks [my only other option at that point] for that purpose.

After I had eaten my four pieces of "Crispy Rice" [with a fork], I had still been hungry so I decided to order my second food choice: "Fire Chicken" [spicy garlic chicken stir-fried with broccoli, onions, carrots, mushrooms, serrano, napa cabbage, and a side of white rice].

My "Fire Chicken" had been quite delicious and had been far more "filling" than it otherwise might have been since I had previously eaten an appetizer [that I typically would not have ordered with a meal].

I want to mention at this point that the room decorations at Oshio are superb. I had been quite impressed by how well their space has been designed.

Several times, while I had been completing my meal, my server asked me if I wanted a box [to take my remaining food home]; I decided to finish my entire meal in spite of the fact that I had been there for a while and I had been becoming quite full because of the large amount of food that I had already eaten.

If you are looking for some delicious Asian food in a beautiful environment, I strongly recommend Oshio.

But be sure not to arrive there until after 4:00 p.m. [Monday to Friday] [or after 5:00 p.m. on a Saturday] [or not at all on a Sunday].