OEC Japanese Express — Restaurant in Starkville

It's no Umi's but it will suffice in a pinch. The prices are good and you get a lot of food for what you pay. However, you have to pay more for extra sauces in to-go orders. Also, the fried rice tastes more like sticky rice and is longer grained than most. The meats are usually well prepared and cut into small cubes before being placed on top of a heaping bed of rice. The yum yum sauce is much more vinegary than other places. Also, the dish left a distinct garlicky aftertaste, which I wasn't very fond of. Overall though, quick and...

I hadn't eaten here in 10 years, but I was grabbing sushi from there for someone, decided to finally try it again, see if it changed. I got the chicken lo mein.

While technically "edible" in so much as it could be digested into nutrients and wasn't toxic, I hesitate to call it "food". Spaghetti noodles, dry chunks of chicken breast, a few bits of carrot, and an overwhelming smell of sesame oil. Gross.

My friend loves their sushi though. So maybe stick to that.

The service was fantastic however, and the cashier...

OEC has consistently good food. I mainly order the eel roll, dancing eel roll, or the beef fried rice. I tend to love the baked seafood roll, but this particular location makes them small, and without the pink soy wrap, which is a shame. Overall a great middling-costly place to eat once a month or so. The service is not the best, no smiles and seemingly-befuddled staff don't quite know where the food should go more often than not, but the food tastes exactly like it...