Restaurant Preview: Splitsville Luxury Lanes Downtown Disney Anaheim

Sasaki Time was invited to a preview of the new Splitsville Luxury Lanes in the Downtown Disney District at the Disneyland Resort. This retro 1950s looking bowling, entertainment and dining venue sits on what was once the home of The House of Blues but the building is brand new from the ground up! I already love the large windows and the patio area!

Time to dive into the menu!

We started with the spicy edamame that is steamed and tossed with sesame oil and chili sauce. There is a great kick to it as to be expected and yet finishes with the subtle sweetness of the edamame. Wildly addicting!

We also got the cheeseburger sliders. Now these sliders are pretty big and pretty tasty! Each of these nearly full-sized cheeseburgers are topped with lettuce, caramelized onions, tomatoes, pickles, special sauce and cheese! I admit these are fairly close to an In-N-Out burger. One can easily get full off of all three of these!

Restaurant Review: H2O Sushi & Izakaya in Costa Mesa AYCE & AYCD

Time to bring back restaurant reviews and here is my first one for 2016. This is my review for H2O Sushi & Izakaya in Costa Mesa. This is the only one of their locations to offer All You Can Eat ($28.95 per person) and you can also add bottomless hot sake and Sapporo draft to your AYCE for $11.95. That is a great deal. There is a two hour time limit which gives you more than enough time to eat and drink more than your fill.

Time to start with a bottle of hot sake and an ice cold Sapporo draft.

Started off our meal with the garlic chili edamame. Perfectly spicy and a perfect way to start off the meal.

Look at that color of the sashimi. Tuna sushi (on the left), yuzu tuna sushi and salmon sushi to start off the sushi fest.

Do not pass up the seared garlic tuna sushi!

Restaurant Review: Samurai Burrito! Sushi Burritos and Sushi Nachos!

Time for another restaurant review! This time I am headed to Fountain Valley and Samurai Burrito! Think of this as the subway for sushi. In this day of customizable food, these guys have a great take on the sushi roll!

They have a pretty extensive menu so it will be tough to make a decision.

So many awesome choices!

And if you want to customize your roll you can do that as well! So the possibilities are endless!

Here you can see all the wrapping options.

Once you put in your order they quickly assemble your sushi roll!

Lil Oishi loves the milk tea! It's so smooth and sweet!

Check out the amazing Samurai Super Nachos! This is big enough to share with two or more friends as an awesome appetizer! They make a half order as well if you would like! But this massive amount of amazingness is filled with spicy tuna, salmon, eel, masago, crab, onions, and wonton chips! Such an amazing idea and I would gladly order this every time I come here!

I went with the Kamikazu Roll which was rice, seared albacore, garlic, onions, avocado, crab, cucumber, rising onion sauce and wrapped in their Samurai Togarashi with chili peppers. The flavors are fantastic and you can tell how fresh everything is. Such a great idea to have a massive sushi roll in your hands!

Now that is an epic meal!

If you still have room they have a great selection of desserts! I was so full and passed but I will get something next time for sure!

Besides the baked goods, they also have a wonderful selection of Japanese goodies like my favorite KitKats!

So come in and bring some friends! You will love the Mexican fusion take on the sushi roll!

Samurai Burrito

• 18932 Brookhurst St
• Fountain Valley, CA 92708

Sweet Candy Sushi Recipe!

What you'll need

• Pound cake, cut into 1-inch-thick slices
• White frosting
• Fruit leather (we used FruitaBu® Organic Smoooshed Grape Fruit Twirls)
• Flaked coconut
• An assortment of candies and jellies for sweet toppings and sushi sides

How to make it

1. Sushi bases: For rolls, use a knife to cut 1 1/2-inch circles from a slice of cake. Frost the tops of the circles, then wrap a 6-inch strip of fruit leather seaweed around each one, using a dab of frosting to secure it. Press coconut rice into the frosting. For individual sushi, cut a cake slice into rectangles and round the edges, as shown. Frost the top and sides of each oval, then roll it in coconut.
2. Sweet toppings: From left to right, starting with the top row, we used orange nonpareils, apricot preserves, and pieces of Twizzlers Rainbow Twists. In the middle row, we used a green gumdrop slice, diced Swedish Fish, and gumdrop wedges. On the bottom row, we topped the sushi base with a Swedish Fish, then wrapped it with a strip of fruit leather.
3. Sushi sides: To make wasabi, warm a green Starburst candy in the microwave for 10 seconds, then use your hands to work it into a mound. For pickled ginger, microwave and flatten an orange Starburst candy, then bunch it up into a pile, as shown.

 

Source: http://spoonful.com/recipes/sweet-sushi

Here One Nigiri Style Sushi Equals 40 Regular Sized Ones!

For those who prefer their sushi nigiri style, a restaurant in Aichi offers gigantic portions of  Ikura (salmon roe), Tamago, Octopus, Squid and Tuna on a wooden platter the size of a child’s  bench. Each slab is big enough to create 40 regular-sized nigiri-zushi portions.   All this enough to feed a small family for a few days!

Want to see a $190 Futomaki Roll?

Only for sushi lovers – this specialty sushi restaurant in Aichi prefecture 愛知県 (known as the  Tōkai region  – capital is Nagoya city), serves up huge gigantic sized portions of sushi. The restaurant’s signature jumbo futomaki roll contains 20 different types of fish and seafood on a 2m bed of rice and  nori seaweed.  It costs 15,000 yen ($190) and requires a reservation 2 days in advance.

Review of Kula Revolving Sushi Bar

Kula Revolving Sushi Bar in Irvine where pretty much everything is $2.00 a plate!

If you are not familiar with a revolving sushi restaurant, allow me to explain! The sushi is placed on a revolving conveyor and you pick up which plate you want. The sushi only revolves for a certain period of time before they remove it from the conveyor belt. Each plate is priced differently and you just stack up the plates you finish and they add up your total at the end! But since pretty much everything here is $2 a plate, you can't go wrong!

This is the beef sushi! Raw beef marinated in a ponzo type sauce! It was amazing! The beef was soft and flavorful! I had another plate of this!

Tuna is one of my all-time favorites and this was no exception!

Seared salmon was amazing!

Salmon sushi is another one of my all-time favorites and here the salmon is rich and buttery! High quality sashimi indeed!

A rainbow roll!

Ell! Yes eel! Another favortie of mine! Perfectly seared and nice and buttery as well!

Caramelized sweet potatoes! Delicious! I would definitely order these again!

Kinako covered mochi!

Traditional azuki bean (sweet bean) filled mochi!

A great meal for a relatively low price! Everything was fresh and flavorful! If you don't see what you want on the conveyor belt, ask one of the helpful wait staff and they will bring it to you!

Kula Revolving Sushi Bar

2700 Alton Pkwy
Ste 133
Irvine, CA 92606

(949) 553-0747

http://www.kura-corpo.co.jp/us

Hours:

Mon-Thu 11 am - 11 pm

Fri-Sat 11 am - 12 am

Sun 11 am - 10:30 pm

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