I haven’t been to a conveyor-belt sushi restaurant in years.
There’s a well-regarded sushi counter near my home that’s both inexpensive and delicious.
By the way, every piece is 150 yen. (So if you’re thinking in terms of two pieces per plate, that’s 300 yen—pretty cheap, right?)
That said, when ingredients like sea urchin become expensive, they’re often limited to one piece per customer.
Whenever I go there, I usually end up eating around 20 pieces… and it still only comes to 3,000–4,000 yen.
I can enjoy fresh sushi there for a price I never could have imagined when I lived in Tokyo.
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I never eat more than 10 plates. A lot of it isn’t very good, so I usually look for something that looks tasty and just stick to that.
This is just my personal opinion, but you can find good sushi even at conveyor-belt sushi restaurants. Since it’s raw seafood, I suppose it depends on what they’re able to source that day. On the other hand, even sushi from high-end, non-conveyor-belt restaurants isn’t always good.
Sea urchin is especially hit-or-miss. Other than freshly harvested uni, the brine-packed kind is the best, but apparently it only keeps for about two or three days, so restaurants can’t use it very often. That means you can only enjoy really good uni when they happen to get a particularly fresh batch.
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I don’t eat much, so I usually feel full after about three plates, but if I skip the meal beforehand, I might be able to manage five or more.
I choose the sushi I like rather than going by price.
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I’d probably have around five plates at a conveyor-belt sushi restaurant.
I order whatever I like—I don’t really worry about the price. It’s not expensive enough at a conveyor-belt sushi place to stress over it anyway.
I’ve never had sea urchin at one. I eat that at good sushi restaurants instead. At conveyor-belt sushi places, I order unusual items that you probably wouldn’t find anywhere else. If I’m having regular sushi, I’d rather go to a non-conveyor-belt restaurant.
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I’m not sure how a discussion about conveyor-belt sushi is relevant to papa-katsu (compensated dating in Japan).
(Since this is a Q&A box for papa-katsu, questions that are off-topic may be hidden.)
Most people take their dates somewhere that isn’t a conveyor-belt sushi restaurant, so if you take a woman to one on your first date, you’ll probably get a bad review.
That said, among people who do generally go to conveyor-belt sushi restaurants, I feel like many start with the limited-time promotional items.
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I get the impression that many people who’ve tried sea urchin in urban areas end up disliking it, even when it wasn’t at a conveyor-belt sushi restaurant.
On the other hand, many people who visit Hokkaido try sea urchin there, are surprised by how good it is, and end up liking it. So the freshness seems to make a huge difference in the taste.
The sea urchin at ultra-high-end restaurants in urban areas may be just as good as Hokkaido’s, though.
Although, I saw a news report saying that Hokkaido’s sea urchin population has been almost wiped out, so it may not be good for the next three or four years.
For what it’s worth, chain restaurants offer sea urchin at reasonable prices, but I feel like more people probably end up disliking it.
It may be difficult to find sweet-tasting sea urchin at chain restaurants or in urban areas.
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I’m so stingy I practically shake when I order fatty tuna.
I usually stick to the cheap stuff—crab salad, red tuna, onion salmon, and so on. I do order sea urchin because I like it.
The other day, I went to a sushi restaurant with a future top girl, and it was one of those places that costs around ¥30,000 per person—not exactly expensive, but not cheap either. The sea urchin was awful, and things got awkward. Maybe being used to cheap sushi has the opposite effect...
At a conveyor-belt sushi place, I probably wouldn’t order more than ten plates in total.
I do order the green laver miso soup, though.
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I only eat rice when I’m dining with someone, so I haven’t been to a conveyor-belt sushi restaurant in a while.
If I did go, I seem to remember having about five plates.
I chose whatever I liked, rather than basing my choices on the price.
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