Kasago Sushi

Time: 7:27pm/63°F drizzles
Purpose: A friend said she order sushi from Kasago Sushi for delivery, but never been there before. Ask if, I can swing by and check things out because it wasn’t as good as pictures online shows. Of course Debra, its the old bait and switch scheme.
Ambiance: It’s located inside Ying Kee Restaurant. No other signage indicating sushi place than couple of folding advertising sandwich boards. Inside is a 55+ seater with one flatscreen. Five family high back booths rest of place loose tables and chairs strewn around. Kitschy décor with dated wall boards that reminds me of «Big Trouble in Little China». Stand alone fridge empty use for personal storage. They’re also partner with HubGrub and Eater24. Computer set up for that purpose was in plain view. Place was in disarray, with personal belongings on every two seater table. Owner kids running around of boredom. Throwing paper airplane across the room. Feels like a daycare center than eatery.
Staff: Older guy in his late 50s with square glasses trying to bust a move on me. He was outside hawking for people to go in when I walk up. Telling me best sushi here and lots of rolls. I’m thinking, what do I look to you? Born yesterday? Finally one of his son comes out screaming HUBGRUB ORDER DAD! That’s when he left me. Phewww!!!
Cleanliness: Grade C-​, this place went through a recent remodeling couple of months back. Health department shut them down and red tag. Sushi counter looks disastrous, disorganized. Only 4 – 5 types of fish wrapped in reuse saran wrap clouded with marks. Barely can see through what kind of fish. Flies hovering nearby couldn’t wait for chef to open counter. Menus are sticking with grime blocking out crucial info on menu. Kids toys and personal clothing can be found all over the place. There’s more, but I’ll leave it to your imagination.
Eats/​Drinks: Tonkotsu bento $ 8.95 advertise with 4pcs of California rolls included. The chef didn’t like the number (4) meaning death in Chinese. So he did me a favor and ate it, price remains at $ 8.95 though. Nothing in this bento order was worth eating. Salad are FreshExpress out of package with thousand island dressing. Powder wasabi w/​white ginger strands. Pork cutlet tasted really old probably left over previous nights ago. Dipping sauce was from a sqeeze bottle low grade generic brand. Even that had a weird off taste. I’m thinking at least the orange wedge is gonna be sweet. Wrong! Fresh fruit was nasty tasting too! Cross contamination is what I suspect. How can everything taste so weird and off? What a rip off? It’s been more than 3 hrs nothing so far, no rushing to restroom yet.
Main Features: Deluxe rolls from $ 9.95−14.95. Substitute imitation crab to real extra $ 2.
Products/​Services: Please refer to posted pictures of menu. GrubHub, Eater24, free local delivery over $ 20, close Tuesday, 20% off dine-​in special. Free Wi-​Fi (strong).
Punch Lines: Harried staff, lackluster ambiance, kitschy décor, light bites, snooty service, off putting, sleeper, quite bland, not as great, below standard fare, go elsewhere, pretentious, itty-​bitty, family run, disorganized, struggling for sales, low grade fish, chef uses a meat clever to cut rolls, street parking (after 6pm free).
Tradeoffs: Ordering online is not the same in person here. You don’t get to see the happenings first hand.
Final Thoughts: The new living wage has put couple of places out of business. Right next door, Bread of Life is gone too. This tells me struggling place trying to make ends meet by doing away with something not being a specialist in. That chef doesn’t know what arigato means and uses a plastic handle cleaver. Funny thing is, calls comes in asking for brown rice. Guy says no brown rice, white ok? Other end says cancel please? Can’t be cheap like that, it won’t survive. All of these actions within earshot of me in about 6 – 8 minutes happening. 2/​stars one for trying and one for only place in Chinatown doing online ordering with two accounts.

Prompt service, which was nice but we were the only ones in there around 1 on a Sunday. We got the rock and roll (roll), the miso soup, and veggie udon, came to be about 30 dollars and they tried to overcharge me by 10 dollars. They didn’t insist on the mistake though and after 10 minutes at the register they changed the mistake. Food was okay, at best, the rolls were about twice as expensive as they should have been for what we got. The miso soup and tea were the highlights, unfortunately.