sushi garden

mmm, mmm, mmm! after many, many weeks of renovations, sushi garden has finally re-opened! they actually re-opened about a week-and-a-half ago, but coordinating schedules posed a bit of a delay :-)

we got there at 7:45 for dinner, and were immediately awed to see so many ppl waiting in line for a table and/or take-out orders. even now that they've doubled their seating capacity, there are just as many ppl waiting to get seated. it's absolutely ridiculous! a true testimony to how popular (and yummy) they are. the 9 sushi chefs lined up are pretty impressive, but the 3 servers were seriously shorthanded. they had 3 before the expansion, so you think they'd find 3 more to hire. oh well.

we were seated after a 1/2 hour wait, which wasn't too bad. we tried staring at some diners in the hopes it would scare them into eating faster, but to no avail. while waiting, we contemplated what we wanted to eat, and by the time we sat down, we had our orders taken right away. we were starving! chris and i shared the following: spicy tuna roll, alaska roll, gyoza, prawn tempura, dynamite roll and green salad. chris' salad was to help counterbalance all the bad stuff he ate yesterday at the pne :-)

all in all, a very yummy meal! unfortunately not all the diners were happy diners. the table next to us stormed out of the restaurant after the server forgot to place their order. it was a bit dramatic and somewhat unnecessary in my opinion, but whatever, i actually got to eat my food :-)