My Experience at Best of Asia..........28-07-2011

A friend and I were looking for some cheap sushi one Thursday night. After googling a few sushi specials she suggested Best of Asia in Kloof Street. She said they got take away sushi from there quite often and it is good. So off to Kloof Street we went. There are a few tables on the edge of the restaurant but the conveyor belt station is the main set up in the middle of the place. Sushi in different coloured plates goes around on the conveyor belt and you just take which ever one’s you feel like. They had a special on the night where you get three plates of the same colour for the price of two. So if you want to make the best of this special you shouldn’t just willy nilly order sushi but try and order 3 plates of the same colour at a time.

If there is something on the menu that you would like and you cannot see it on the conveyor belt you can ask the chefs in the middle to make it for you, which is nice as this ensures really fresh sushi. This place had some sushi that I had never seen before. One of the things they had, which I felt would cause some sushi chefs to turn in their graves, were a lot of fried tempura sushi. I thought the whole point of sushi was supposed to be super healthy!!? Anyway, they had tempura fried fashion sandwiches! Very strange! Needless to say those were the plates left at the end of the night that no one wanted to eat. They clearly don’t understand that if people wanted fried unhealthy food they would not come to a sushi joint.

The nine plates of sushi that we had were Prawn Fashion Sandwiches, Salmon Fashion Sandwiches, Tuna Fashion Sandwiches, Prawn Tempura Rolls, Wasabi Pastel, Rainbow California Rolls, Tempura Spicy Maki, Salmon California rolls and Tuna California rolls. By the end of this I was completely stuffed!!! Two of the sushi types that were unusual here was the Wasabi Pastel and the Tempura Spicy Maki. The Wasabi Pastel was actually quite good. It consisted of square slices of salmon and avo and rice stacked on top of each other finished off with a dash of mayo and “caviar” like you would find on top of salmon roses. The Tempura Spicy Maki I thought was actually a waste of kilojoules. It is maki that has been deep fried in tempura batter. I didn’t really see the point of this one at all.

Overall, the sushi wasn’t too bad, and the fact that it was so cheap didn’t hurt. I would however not make this one of my local sushi places. Maybe because I am too loyal to my already local sushi restaurant. Some of the sushi pieces lacked quality workmanship. On some of the pieces you could see that the avo was already browning and on other pieces where the salmon should have covered the whole sushi piece it only covered part of the piece.

Yours in fun & raw fish

Elly D

7 Kloof Street
Cape Town
021-423 1177
bestofasia10@yahoo.com