Chikurin — Restaurant in New York

I have been eating sushi all my life, weekly, since I was a little girl. and I can honestly say the sushi here was the worst I've ever had in all my years. I hope I don't get sick from the "Alaskan roll". They put some off-color grounded up salty fish into the Alaskan, which everywhere else is always made with fresh salmon. They claim it's smoked salmon but why is it grounded up and almost white in color?! See photo.

But the worst issue was the extremely overcooked and mushy sushi rice. Sushi comes from a Japanese word meaning "sour rice," and it's the rice that's at the heart of sushi, even though most Americans think of it as raw fish. So they can't even get the foundation of this cuisine right! In all the cheap sushi spots I've eaten, not one has served me mushy sushi rice.

Furthermore, the spicy tuna and spicy salmon have a very weird and unpleasant aftertaste.

Last but not least, the dressing for the house salad is awful. The standard dressing Japanese restaurants use is carrot ginger, but this place uses some creamy, vinegary dressing that tastes like it's from a Kraft Foods bottle.

I will say their miso soup is very delicious.

Update: apparently they can substitute the bad dressing with the normal carrot ginger, according to response to this review. However they have neither apologized nor addressed the main issues of the mushy overcooked rice, the almost-white processed fish they claim is smoked salmon, and the bizarre taste of the spicy tuna and spicy salmon.

I should have checked the reviews before ordering from here. Some months ago a customer found worms in...

Chikurin's premises had a nice traditional and sedate decor.

The waitress was friendly and understood (nearly) all we said.

We started with a pleasant Miso Soup (priced at a surprisingly low $2).

We then had a decent Avocado Sushi Roll (for an affordable $4.50). The roll could have been colder, but it was quickly freshly made.

The "Tokyo Chicken" was quite good (although we don't know what differentiates it from teriyaki chicken). It came over a bed of cabbage as well as some vegetables and a generous portion of rice.

I ordered Yosenabe "Hot Pot", which was not the kind of hot pot I was expecting. I was expecting "hot pot" to mean a bowl of boiling broth or oil (over a flame) with raw ingredients to add from a side plate,

What we got was an unusually large bowl of Udon noodles in broth with a hodgepodge of ingredients already inside, including crab style fish, chicken, and mushrooms. Jumbo Shrimp Tempura also came included with the "Hot Pot", both of which were delicious.

We were so full, we skipped dessert and took half the food home.

Overall, it was a...

I come here at least once a week without question. But after today’s experience i don’t know if i want to ever go again. Service was not up to par, The gentleman that serves is amazing no problem with him anytime i go. The woman that serves is not the best, whenever we get her no doubt we are going to be in there at least an hour even if we barely order anything. I ordered one roll and a salad and it took me having to ask for my food for her to bring it to my table i watched them make it and leave it on the table for i’d say 20 minutes walking past it 5 times not even looking at the food that was made. Then i receive my food ate a little then noticed a hair in my roll, very careless move. after i seen that i got the check and left i didn’t want to make a big deal because i work in food service and understand things like this happened but as someone who is considered a regular at this establishment everything should’ve been brought out in a timely manner and ran...