Ordered the katsu curry rice (lunch special $11.90++) with salmon ($4++ with ocha as a lunch set add-on) and swordfish ($7.90++) sashimi and the aburi salmon roll ($16.90++). The curry is heavy on spice and light on flavor. I ran out of curry before I finished the rice. There's a side salad on the edge of the plate that drinks thousand island dressing into the rice - rice and thousand island dressing do not match in any known universe. The chicken katsu is a chicken breast - nothing wrong if you like chicken breasts but it's neither traditional nor my preference. What was wrong was that it was slightly on the burnt side - as if the chef didn't know that fried goods continue to colour and cook after removal from oil. It's led to a slight bitter edge that could've been balanced by a sweet Japanese curry... oh wait - short on flavor. The aburi salmon roll... it took me three pieces to figure out that the chewiness was a bit of skin that had been left attached to the raw salmon in the roll. It was that or the slightly unripe avocado.

The sashimi was fresh and okay for the price. The rest of it? Not worth it at all.

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