Eric's Tummy Points
Saturday, 30 January 2010
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El Japanese Fusion
El Japanese Fusion
17-2008 33 Avenue SW
Calgary, AB T2T 1Z4
403-217-6796
Price: $$
Ambiance: Casual
Food: 3.5/5
Service: 3.5/5
Tummy Points: 3.5/5
Notes: Rainbow Maki Roll
$14.95, Appetizer Tempura
$6.95.
Although Calgary is a land locked city, there's no shortage of sushi restaurants with great ones like Globefish (which I will review very soon). Another good restaurant I tried out in Calgary is El Japanese Fusion. Although it has fusion in its name, there's nothing really fusion about it unless you count Philadephia and Mexican maki rolls as a fusion of Japanese with Western culture.
El's is a very small restaurant with a few two and four person tables and bar seating. It's a hard place to get seated during lunch hours. Service is usually understaffed with 1 or 2 persons servicing the dining area. I've heard mixed stories about their service but on my visit I received friendly service although fairly slow.
All the dishes were freshly prepared. The spicy salmon maki rolls used lots of sweet chilli sauce with cold soft chopped up salmon on top of salmon roll. It was not what I had in mind as I prefer spicy mayo. The fresh was very fresh. The rice roll was packed just tight enough.
Sushi combo with various sushi and California roll. The crab meat was a fake minced type which i prefer over the solid fake crab meat. Ebi was the usual. I wish it were the sweet type like they serve in Globefish's deluxe sushi combo. The BBQ eel is what you'll find at a grocery store. So that's the bad part. The good part is all the fish were very fresh with no fishy taste and not warm. The salmon was very soft on the tongue and smooth. Not quite smooth as butter but it was good. It's not the fish market in Japan but it's still good.
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Comments (16)
D: I want sushi now. I also prefer spicy mayo over sweet chili sauce. The nigiris looks good though.
@osmundaregalis - Yeah me too, have you had the Spicy Tuna with that before?
Sweet Chili Sauce is so wrong to use in this application.
@arenadi - @osmundaregalis - I wish there was a standard because it's always a surprise what "spicy" rolls look like.
That sushi looks really good. Send some over here! (:
I've found in my travels that Calgary and Edmonton have better Asian restaurants than I would have expected.
looks good.
hmm the sweet chilli (kochujang) isn't sweet thai chilli right? Your first picture suggests that it's sushi made by Koreans (which is still often very good but a different style than Japanese sushi).
@Agent_Spanky - lol where are you at? maybe i can convinced them to open up a restaurant there :P
@christao408 - I'm surprised too. Calgary and Edmonton are quite culturally diversed. I had dinner at a Cajun restaurant in Edmonton which was totally a surprise for me.
@yang1815 - yeah, the pics turned out well. It was dark in the restaurant.
@see_lai - they spoke Japanese with each other so I guess they were Japanese. I agree, there are a lot of good Japanese restaurants run by Koreans.
@rice_eric - BTW we have Five Guys here haha.
@yang1815 - WHERE? In Calgary?
@rice_eric - O no I'm in Nebraska.
@yang1815 - you gotta give it 2 tries. The first time i thought I was going to get a heart attack and didn't think it was amazing. But the second time, it's like the body it used to it and loves it.
@rice_eric - Nice. A friend of mine said it's pretty good. Apparently opened last year some time.
@rice_eric - I'm in New York!
Tell them to open one in Brooklyn or Manhattan. haha
@osmundaregalis - @arenadi - @rice_eric - I don't think there's a standard spicy roll. most of the rolls that are made spicy are using tabsco sauce.. which i would like to see something different. any ideas?