Fatsumo Sushi — Restaurant in Pass Christian

Went on a Saturday night and the place was pretty empty. Despite this, we still had to wait a few minutes before a waitress came to seat us. Afterwards, I had no problems with the waitress. Very attentive, and when asked for suggestions, she didn't immediately suggest the most expensive dish. Yes I do that on purpose as a test which she passed.

I like the look of the place. Maybe could do with darker walls, but I'm nit picking now. I could tell that the owner was aiming for a more modern look. Had no problems with that. Looking at the rolls they had confirmed this. I like how they tried to make the place innovative with VERY original concepts for the rolls. My problem was the execution.

First, was the miso soup. The soup was pretty sweet. Good miso soup needs to be balanced, both sweet and savory. The savory was too underplayed. Next came the eggrolls. The eggrolls themselves were acceptable. Nothing special but nothing to complain about. Tried the sweet and sour sauce. It looked like it was made in house so props to that, BUT, somehow, it tasted like ketchup. How do you do that?! Because the rolls were so unique, I ordered the champion roll combo with half rolls of Mile High, Shotgun, and Pebble Beach.

Mile High: There was an overpowering flavor of.... something, that I couldn't identify at first. I only knew that it just didn't taste right. After sampling different parts, I realized that it was the light brown sauce over powering the rest of the roll. The sauce should NEVER overpower ANY dish. A sauce is a compliment to the dish; not the dish itself. Think of the sauce being the picture frame that holds the painting (dish).

Shotgun: I couldn't not try this one. You had me at, "bacon," on this one. When I tried it though, all I tasted was the black pepper chili sauce. The very last piece had no sauce on it whatsoever. THAT bite was delicious. I never thought of bacon in sushi, but so help me, it worked. If there was either no sauce, or a light sauce, it would have been superb. The bacon is the selling point of that roll. Why would you hide it behind the sauce? Let it shine!

Pebble Beach: This one sounded odd, but I figured it deserved a try. Still not sure I got one. When I looked down I, literally, saw nothing but sauce. it was SMOTHERED in a ranch sauce (ranch? really?) and pink sauce. I couldn't see any sushi under it. Trying to eat it, I only tasted SAUUUUUUCE. Notice a theme here?

Literally, the only balanced part of my meal was the sweet tea.

I like the idea of being original and innovative, but you gotta get the basics right. Dial back the sauces, retool some of the recipes and I would be willing to try again. Until then I would not recommend this and I will continue driving out to Gulfport for...

I have never been treated so poorly in my life ! When we first got there we were informed they were understaffed I had no problem with that or the Waite. Working understaffed is hard I understand that and don’t mind waiting. But when I ordered the ramen the waitress was super rude about telling me “you know Raman always comes with broth and noodles right” yes I know that I have had Raman from all around the USA. So we continued with our order we also ordered some sushi. After ordering she microwaved are Raman and never put in are sushi order. When we receive are ramen I honestly couldn’t eat it it was horrible I felt bad but we were ready to go. We let the nice guy making the sushi know if you didn’t make it yet please don’t we don’t want to waste anymore food. He was very understanding and sweet about it. When we told them we were ready to go we didn’t like the ramen the waitress said” omg I brought everything out but one thing” super loud where everyone could hear her. After that I was getting upset trying to not make a bad experience out of it. We even quietly let them know that we didn’t like the food. In all I have never been treated like that before and was highly disappointed. I appreciate the sushi guy and his understanding. And the worst part of it all was Our waitress never once wash your hands before touching silverware and microwaving our food. Even after handing money and other customers. Honestly would never...

We live in Pass Christian and normally go to eat Sushi in Gulfport....but decided to try the local place. It was not a good experience. When we walked in, the hostess / waitress informed us that she was the only one working, and would we mind sitting at the bar? It really seemed like she was saying "could you guys just leave? We don't want you here." We didn't want to sit at the bar, and instead of letting us sit at an open table in the middle of the restaurant, she wanted to stick us in the corner by a toddler because "she wanted to leave that table open". Really? Her attitude was horrible. Sorry if you were having a bad day honey, not my problem.

So we sat at the bar. She took our drink order then promptly ignored us for the next 15 minutes. And there are only 5 tables in this place! We were talking about leaving, and I am quite sure one of the chef's heard us, and another young lady stepped in to help us. She was pleasant as could be, but the first girl was nothing but rude.

The sushi itself was marginal at best. You can do way better in this area. Very disappointed with this entire experience as we would love to support local business. But when I am paying you to eat at your restaurant, you might not want to treat me like a POS.

Do yourself a favor and eat...