{"id":91,"date":"2007-11-11T03:03:18","date_gmt":"2007-11-11T10:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/sushi-town-burnaby"},"modified":"2007-11-11T03:18:23","modified_gmt":"2007-11-11T10:18:23","slug":"sushi-town-burnaby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/sushi-town-burnaby","title":{"rendered":"Sushi Town (Burnaby)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sushi Town<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dinehere.ca\/restaurant.asp?r=1895\">visitor reviews<\/a>, 5935 East Hastings, Burnaby, BC, phone 604-294-6155) has got to be one of my all time favorite Japanese\u00a0restaurants. It&#8217;s run by\u00a0a young Korean chef who takes his food seriously, and the quality, portion size\u00a0and freshness of the seafood are outstanding considering the modest prices.<\/p>\n<p>The Ebi Sunomono salad (pictured below, $3.50) is cool and\u00a0refreshing; thin noodles are served cold in a clear sweet-and-sour broth topped with fresh cooked shrimp and a garnish of lemon. The various <em>maki <\/em>rolls are delicious, such as the Futomaki (half order, $4.00), chopped scallop roll ($3.75, pictured below), and the &#8220;Awesome Roll&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the Awesome roll (pictured below), <em>frugalgourmet<\/em> writes on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dinehere.ca\/restaurant.asp?r=1895\">Dinehere.ca<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The roll is slightly baked and served warm, topped off with a delightful combination of green onions, bonito flakes, barbeque sauce and spicy mayonnaise. It provides some great flavor and texture contrasts (crunchy\/soft; sweet\/salty; piquant\/creamy). A meal on it&#8217;s own &#8211; 8 generous pieces for $6.95.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Chicken Karage (deep fried chicken wings, $3.95) were also very tasty &#8211; what juicy and tender chicken!<\/p>\n<p>As the restaurant is located in Burnaby,\u00a0it is a bit of a trek from downtown Vancouver (about a 30 minute drive). However, Sushi Town doesn&#8217;t seem to have trouble attracting diners to its suburban location; it was fully packed on the Saturday evening with several large families and smaller groups too.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Ebi sunomono salad\" alt=\"Ebi sunomono salad\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/images\/sushi-town-01.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nEbi Sunomono salad (shrimp and cold noodles in a sweet and sour broth)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Futomaki and Chopped Scallop Roll\" alt=\"Futomaki and Chopped Scallop Roll\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/images\/sushi-town-02.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nFutomaki and chopped scallop roll<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"The signature dish, of Sushi Town: \" alt=\"The signature dish, of Sushi Town: \" src=\"http:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/images\/sushi-town-03.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe signature dish, of Sushi Town: &#8220;Awesome roll&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sushi Town (visitor reviews, 5935 East Hastings, Burnaby, BC, phone 604-294-6155) has got to be one of my all time favorite Japanese\u00a0restaurants. It&#8217;s run by\u00a0a young Korean chef who takes his food seriously, and the quality, portion size\u00a0and freshness of the seafood are outstanding considering the modest prices. The Ebi Sunomono salad (pictured below, $3.50) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,63,86,107,4,69,3,58,13,2,133,75,26,14,15,38,5,46,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable","category-asian","category-barbecue","category-budget","category-burnaby","category-creative-dishes","category-family","category-favorites","category-food-photos","category-japanese","category-large-portions","category-lunch","category-reasonably-priced","category-restaurant","category-sashimi","category-seafood","category-sushi","category-sushi-bar","category-take-out"],"views":21744,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dineouthere.com\/restaurants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}