Generous portions for seafood addicts.

5935 East Hastings, Burnaby, BC    [View Map]
604-294-6155
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As a quick look at this site reveals, the Vancouver area is home to a seemingly endless number of sushi restaurants, with high standards of quality at reasonable prices. Sushi Town, located in Burnaby (on Hastings between Holdom and Kensington), competes very well by offering especially generous cuts of sushi, featuring pieces of nigiri sushi with salmon or tuna slices that are almost twice the length of the rice ball. Once I ordered their deluxe chirashi don (bowl sushi) - $13.95 - which had so much seafood that it took ages of eating before I even discovered the rice layer. Their beef or chicken teriyaki portion is humungous ($7.95, although I didn't order it myself, but I observed it arriving at some other tables). Pictured above is the Assorted Sushi Combo ($10.95) which came with salmon and tuna rolls, and eight pieces of nigiri sushi including ebi (prawn), tuna, salmon, ika (squid), amaebi (shrimp), hokki (clam), taco (octopus), and chopped scallop. The rainbow roll (pictured below) was again very generously prepared for $5.95, and so was the unagi don (barbecued eel on rice) for $9.95.

In general I have been quite satisfied with the quality of the preparation and freshness of the ingredients at Sushi Town. Their thick cuts of sashimi are satisfyingly easy to eat, although for the one occasion that I had chirashi don, some of the seafood had been obviously just thawed, and it didn't seem to come alive with the intensity that I would have liked. But at these prices, it's hard to complain about such things as the "intensity" of the textures! (As the line goes from the movie Lost In Translation, we know that something "with intensity" is a desirable quality in Japan.)

If you're a seafood lover, definitely give Sushi Town a visit, and you'll likely be impressed by their down-to-earth generosity.

	Rainbow roll $5.95
	Unagi Don (barbecued eel) $9.95
	Salmon Sashimi (9 pieces). $7.95
	Alaska Combo Alaska roll, 2 pieces salmon sushi, one piece ebi (prawn) sushi, one piece tuna sushi. $7.75

Reviewed by: Geoff Peters

Last reviewed: April 19, 2005

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