Day Eleven: Itsu Sushi and Other Things

Itsu is a chain of restaurants that serves sushi, roman, and other Japanese inspired dishes. Its also had food on the shelves of grocery stores and markets. When you look for it, you start seeing Itsu-branded food everywhere. But is it actually worth the hype? Are the salmon rolls or the Gyoza chicken noodles actually worth it?

Ratings:

Food:6.75/10

Price: $$

Accessibility: NA

Service: NA:

Food:

From Itsu, I got two dishes, a variety sushi plate and a Gyoza bowl. The sushi was by far the best part. My Sushi came with amazingly fresh fish: salmon, California rolls, and prawns. While I'm not a fan of salmon, I could tell it was very high quality. This was my first-time trying prawn sushi and it was absolutely amazing. If you're a shrimp lover, I would definitely suggest it. The pot stickers were good, if not a little bland, which was good because the Gyoza wasn’t my favorite, The flavor just wasn't there. If you do end up ordering it a cubic ton of chili oil and soy sauce will be needed, if not more.

Accessibility:

The good thing is that you can get this almost anywhere. Stop by their stores or a local Sansbury and you can pick something up. It just depends on what location you live by.

Service:

Did not meet the servers, so I suppose you will have to tell me.

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Mercury and Fish: should I be worried? (Disclaimer, I am a blogger and not a medical expert):

While I got a variety of different fishes, it was mostly salmon. Something that I've heard about eating sushi is to watch my mercury consumption.

But why about mercury? In high amounts, mercury can be dangerous, especially for pregnant women and their unborn child. The higher up a fish is in the food chain, the more mercury a fish collects. As a rather simple example, a shark, who eats 100 other fish a day, will have 100 times more mercury in their body. Fortunately, salmon is lower on the food chain and is considered relatively safe in terms of mercury.

It’s important to keep in mind why eating fish could be dangerous. Human activities, such as burning fossil fuels, have increased mercury levels in the ocean by 450 percent.