And what good memories they were! I expressed to my best friend that I had never had all-you-can-eat sushi in Vancouver before and immediately, she sought to fix that. One night, we headed to Kisha Poppo on Davie that has an AYCE menu and we went prepared (read: empty stomachs). All the fish was very fresh and came in generous portions and the sushi was noticeably lighter on rice than at other places I’ve been. It’s not just sushi either as there are various tempura and bbq items on the menu and even ice cream for dessert. We ordered, and got through, a lot of food and here are the highlights.
OK, those of you in the UK will just about faint when I tell you the price – $18.95 per person. That’s less than £10! What a deal!
The rest of my photos from that dinner at on my Flickr photosteam.
Kisha Poppo
1143 Davie Street
Vancouver, BC
Canada
There’s another branch in Richmond, BC.
Fri, 4 Jul, 2008 at 05:58
OK … can you dispel a myth here?
A lot of people associate sushi with raw fish, which is rather off-putting for me. But, in some of your photos, the fish looks cooked. So, do they cook some of it?
(I’ve never tried it, because there isn’t a sushi restaurant around here, and I’m not that keen on fish anyway)
Fri, 4 Jul, 2008 at 06:09
travelrat: okey-dokey! Sushi is the vinegared rice with toppings of some form. The most common forms I’ve seen in Europe and North America are nigiri sushi and maki sushi. Nigiri sushi are the fingers of rice that are topped with something. Maki sushi are the rolls you see in the first photo. Sushi does not have to involve raw fish though often you do see it. The gigantic roll in the middle of the first photo has cooked fish in it – to be specific, cooked salmon skin. However, the hand rolls in the photo have raw tuna and raw scallops in them. One of my favourite hand rolls involves a deep fried soft shell crab! The last photo is of sashimi, slices of raw fish – this is usually the most expensive thing in a Japanese restaurant as the fish has to be extremely fresh and so if you find good quality sashimi at an AYCE place, people tend to really go for it!
Calling it AYCE sushi makes things more confusing when there are so many differnt things on the menu! At Kisha Poppo, it’s entirely possible to eat not a single bite of raw fish. There’s the inari sushi (the stuffed pockets of seasoned tofu), tamago (cooked omelette) nigiri, prawn (cooked) nigiri, tempura yam rolls, tempura prawn rolls, the salmon skin rolls, California rolls (cooked fake crab and avocado), futomaki (no raw fish in their fat rolls), etc, etc.
Further explanation here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sushi
Fri, 4 Jul, 2008 at 08:06
Just a heads up, the majority of nigiri sushi is raw here in Japan.
Fri, 4 Jul, 2008 at 10:11
That looks amazing. The amount they charge in London for sushi is extortionate. Yesterday I had chicken teriyaki with rice, miso soup and salad, and a 6 piece tuna roll on the side. It came to £10.80.
I’ve also been trying to find out what that seaweed salad is called, now I know it’s ‘goma ae’! Great post.
Sun, 6 Jul, 2008 at 20:08
kat: Thanks for the heads up, kat! I guess the move towards more cooked fish is a more Western thing.
Lizzie: Goma ae is the spinach salad. Not too sure about seaweed salad. And yes, everything is too expensive in London. 😦
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