Lilandra and I learned to love sushi (separately) while out of T&T. We have yet to convince our family members to try it, but we will endeavour. Sushi restaurants are fairly recent and rare in Trinidad, so I never tried it until about 3 years ago. I love fish, and apparently can eat it raw! I hear there is another place in Trinidad, but haven’t been. I have been to Hanami in the Movietowne complex, however, 3 times. I think. At least 3. And always with Lilandra and/or friend TB.
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I like Hanami. The service has always been great, and friendly and I love the decor. If I find a decent pic of the restaurant itself, I will post. Lilandra has recently expressed the view that it isn’t the greatest sushi, it doesn’t excite her, but it is pretty good. Let’s put it this way, I went to a sushi place in Jamaica where I had a Spicy Eel Roll that was baaaaaad. And something else that I didn’t bother to finish eating. But I have never gone to Hanami and had something that simply didn’t taste good. I may have had better Tuna rolls, but the ones they serve are still enjoyable.
I have tried:
California rolls (anything with avocado is great); Spicy Tuna Rolls (not bad); Dido Rolls (rice in hot sauce rolled in salmon – very good, but the salmon should be thinner); Shrimp Tempura Rolls (great-fried shrimp in a sushi roll? what could be bad? also has cucumber and Japanese mayo); Spicy Shrimp Rolls (good); Kyoto Rolls (cream cheese? see avocado comment!); Veggie Sukiyaki (really delicious and light – like salad on top a broth); Tofu Fingers (blah – they put the tofu in a batter before frying so the tofu itself was bland – I think they used tofu that wasn’t firm enough also); Ice Cream Tempura (ice cream in a crunchy batter deep fried and covered in chocolate sauce – glad I tried it, but a bit too much for me to have often) – think that’s about it for now.
Once complaint though – Hanami needs to change their brand of disposable chop sticks – they are too round and don’t taper much to the end, making them less functional. According to Lilandra -aren’t Japanese chopsticks supposed to be tapered to points?
These pictures are from an earlier visit to Hanami, where in addition to all that sushi, we tried Japanese tea, veggie sukiyaki (one split into 3) and ice cream tempura! The last time we went, we only managed the sushi rolls above.
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