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Interesting decor, enticing food names, and endearing staff made this a meal Ikuna will always remember!
Cooked beef and raw fish combo makes us rethink everything we thought we knew about seafood.
With a mouthful of a name, the Kimetsu no Yaiba Cho Niginigi Ouchi de Kaitenzushi Mugen Ressha-hen can deliver mouthfuls of sushi!
He got his start in tuna wholesale when he was just 16, and today we’re learning from his experience.
Is this East-West combo as majestic as a bald eagle soaring past Mt. Fuji, or an abomination that should be buried at the bottom of the Pacific?
The “octagon” is a Hokkaido fish that’s virtually unknown elsewhere in Japan…but is this one secret better left undiscovered?
Same fish, same restaurant chain, but something is very different between Kanto and Kansai.
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