Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night . . . shall deter me from certain cravings. Current one? Sushi. Got home from work, recharged with a nice long rainy day nap and gathered up my mom, sis and "bro-in-law" to drag them with me in my approx 45min drive through the turnpike to go to U-Yee Sushi Hibachi. It turned out to be an hour due to the tropical monsoon like precipitation that deluged the Garden State.
But finally, here we are after driving around and around one of the ubiquitous mini malls that dot the Jersey landscape. Thank goodness for Google Maps otherwise I'd still be driving to find this place. Next door to a Jesus bookstore interestingly enough:
Got there just in time for the 4:30 seating before the crowds took over. Got seated promptly and ordered away using the pencil and paper ordering system I've found from Sushi Palace. It was a little dizzying to juggle between the check off list and the descriptions from the main menu but I forge on in my sushi craving mission. Felt like I was in school again doing state wide testings. Ah the good old days.
Good thing we came early as our waiter, whose pen name looks a lot like "Milk" but I strong suspect could be "Mike," really pushed us to order before the masses overwhelmed the sushi chefs. I'm not surprised as there were no less than seven sushi makes behind the counter with large plate full of sushi. Think I Love Lucy, the chocolate belt episode.
Our sushi came surprisingly fast, all five first rolls that we had: shrimp tempura, that Leslie states were the best she'd ever had, crazy dragon, golden dragon, and the Iselin. Then Milk/Mike came by as we were hungrily scooping up our rolls pushing us to order more as it looked like the sushi chefs were going into overdrive making the multiple orders of sushi from the increasingly growing number of customers. We ordered more tempura, the spider roll, and the Mexican.
I've recently found the magic of fried tempura ice cream and seeing it on the menu, we pounced. Alas it was not as good as the green tea one from Daruma. This was covered in a sponge cake, vanilla flavored and, sadly neither warmed through nor crunchy. Fail. All in all, I would recommend this place for sushi cravings but it won't be the best sushi place you'll ever be to. Salmon and tuna in the rolls didn't pop with fresh flavor unlike in other places but for half price, it' can't be beat. Great shrimp tempura, the spider roll tasted like the shrimp.
Our sushi came surprisingly fast, all five first rolls that we had: shrimp tempura, that Leslie states were the best she'd ever had, crazy dragon, golden dragon, and the Iselin. Then Milk/Mike came by as we were hungrily scooping up our rolls pushing us to order more as it looked like the sushi chefs were going into overdrive making the multiple orders of sushi from the increasingly growing number of customers. We ordered more tempura, the spider roll, and the Mexican. 
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