an open letter to a "sushi" restaurant

Dear Sushi Mon,

If you are a sushi restaurant, shouldn't you actually have....sushi?

The crispy tuna roll was my mistake. I thought it sounded good, but I didn't realize that "crispy" means "fried." But really, it was the sauce that was drenched on it, rendering it disgusting and soggy. I'll let that one slide, because I should have known better.

The California roll was garbage. A friend asked the other day why people even order a California roll, since it's kind of like the peanut butter and jelly of sandwiches. I get it. But when done right, with REAL crab, a normal portion of avocado and cucumber, it's delicious. But fake crab? Seriously?! We live in LA. There is no excuse for imitation crab.

But this one was the real offender: the avocado crunch blob or whatever the hell it's called. Fried avocado with cream cheese, spicy mayonnaise and more of the disgusting overwhelming sweet sauce. It looked like a concoction from a kids' play kitchen. I'm not sure why B ordered it, because he agreed that when I listed the ingredients, it sounded disgusting. However, if you had put them in bite sized portions instead of a huge quarter of an avocado with all the other ingredients slopped all over it, I might have actually tried it. Instead, B took one bite and we didn't touch the rest.

The salmon roll I ordered was probably the most palatable thing we ate (besides the edamame), and even that had too much spicy weird mayo sauce on it. Get it together, Sushi Mon.

I'm giving this place two stars but only because:

a) the beer/sake happy hour prices were decent
b) I didn't get food poisoning. Yet.

Sincerely,

A disgusted customer that will never be returning