Warm Sushi

Today I ate a warm sushi roll and it was extremely weird. Warm rice with cool raw fish and cucumber. Why the rice was warm I don't know, I just know that it came out of this machine which puts the rice onto the seaweed for you. Then the sushi chef puts the filling in and rolls it up.
The tuna was disappointing in both flavour and texture.
I will not name the place but I probably won't be going there again.

Have you ever had warm sushi?

Eating Out: Yoyogi, Eastland, Ringwood

Spent the morning shopping at Eastland in Ringwood trying to find a present for my awesome friend. Managed to walk the entire Eastland then deciding to go with something I found within 5 minutes of walking into the shopping centre =.=" Ooooooo, and I saw Dora the Explorer "in real life" and she looked very very scary. She was taking pics with lots of little kids, some were pretty scared.
So after all that walking, mum and I were pretty tired and hungry, however one round of the food court and nothing particularly interesting appealed to me. I wanted sushi, and food court sushi is probably the worst sushi you can get. Opted for the sushi deluxe at Yoyogi to share for part one of lunch.

Sushi Deluxe $9.80

I have to say it wasn't as bad as I expected. The rice was a little too vinegared and not sweet enough. Everything else was pretty good. The white fish had no taste like usual, however the salmon was pretty good and mum said the tuna was pretty good as well.

Food: 6.5/10 Of course there is much better sushi out there but in food court sushi terms, it's quite good.

Service: 8/10 Very quickly served although it was lunch hour and the man did quite a good job understanding us in the very very noisy environment. But then again, he should be used to it.

Environment: 6/10 It's a food court at lunch hour...what more can i say.

Verdict? Quite impressed considering it is from the food court. If I had to eat at the food court again I would seriously consider coming here again. 

Lunch part two consisted of a CUP NOODLE XD Shrimp Creamy Tom Yum flavour, loved it, sooooooooooo nice except for the msg. And less than $1 for one. Bought 6 yesterday when I was at Box Hill, they're supposed to be for my locker so I can have them at school, I hope they'll last till school starts.

Day 1

Woke up at 7 something HK time. (HK time is 3 hours behind Melb time)
Lazily got up and ready and finally out the door at 9.
Wasn't feeling on top of the world so I requested to eat congee for breakfast.
My food enthusiast uncle (he knows sooo much about food it's amazing) took us to a Honkie cafe (茶餐厅) nearby (my uncle has pretty much tried most of the places in the area we're living in). I was amazed as I could read about 90% of the menu, so I guess my 13 years of Chinese School paid off :D

I ordered a 皮蛋鱼片粥 congee with fish slices and thousand year old egg (i used to hate thousand year egg but now I can accept it, its definitely an acquired taste.) It was only HK$18 (divide it by about 7 to get to AUD) so its around AUD$2.50. Amazing value. If you wanted to get something similar in Melb it would cost you at least AUD$8.
It was pretty good, lots of thousand year old egg and a fair amount of fish. 7/10

The second pic is my bros one. He rated it 5/10 because the pigs blood was really sticky.

Then we went off to Sham Shui Po 深水埗. And whilst we were walking around this shopping centre we saw ALL YOU CAN EAT SUSHI TRAIN!!! for HK$43.9 or AUD$6.50. It costs AUD$6 for a small box of sushi in Melb. 

It was awesome. All you can drink green tea, they give u a tea bag and theres a hot water tap to share between two. You get to watch the guy make the sushi and we were lucky enough to sit right in front of the "chef" guy so we got the freshest sushi out of everyone.

Numbered from left to right, top to bottom 1-15

1. Tobiko-Tobiko is awesome, I love how it bursts in your mouth.

2.Prawn-The prawn was a tad flavourless but you can't expect too much as it was so cheap.

3. Octopus?-Can't remember what it tasted like but I think it was a tad plain.

4. Smoked pork/bacon-Weird combination with rice but the meat had a strong smoked flavour.

5.Tobiko inside out sushi-Tasted like all the other inside out sushi.

6. Unagi like fish-Not exactly sure whether it was unagi as it didn't taste like it but it was coated in a sweet sauce. Good combination with rice.

7. Jellyfish in a yellow sauce-Looked like curry but wasn't curry, it was spicy and sweet. An interesting but nice combination.

8. Seaweed salad-The seaweed was warm but it was nice.

9. Squid-The one I found the hardest to swallow. It was slimy, fishy and just unpleasant.

10. Corn with mayo-Quite liked this one as the sweetness from the corn and the rice went well together. But I've never heard of corn with sushi

11.Conch- A little chewy but not too bad. Don't get to eat conch very often in Aust.

12. Octupus in sauce- The sauce was sweet and many chunks of octopus. Quite nice, bro loved it.

13. No clue, yellow fish roe fillet-I didn't try it as it looked very interesting and unappealing to me. Bro tried it and said it was like tobiko but not as good.

14. SALMON-The best out of all the ones I tried. The salmon was oily and tasted nice. 

15. Porkfloss-Didn't particularly like this one as the pork floss fell out and went all over my face. Combination of dry porkfloss and wet rice in your mouth is sooo weird.

In general the rice was sometimes room temperature and sometimes warm, I'm pretty sure sushi rice is supposed to be cold. The sushi rice didn't contain enough vinegar, salt or sugar and was not packed enough as it was done be a machine. 

Value was amazing, the restaurant was packed with people. 9/10

Taste 6/10

Service 7/10

My rating overall 7/10 thanks to the price

Would i recommend it? Yes but you probably won't go back again as there is way better sushi out there. 

Bout to go out for dinner now :)