I eat bait.

Located in Cromwell Commons Shopping Center with a tired looking facade, sits one of the best sushi restaurants in the Hartford area. Oyama Japanese Cuisine is a hibachi and sushi restaurant, and while I have never tried the hibachi, I can vouch for the sushi. Among many of the normal items in the menu hides a special item, the Sushi Deluxe.

Sushi Deluxe more than lives up to its name. You get a plate with 10 Nigiri-zushi (yes, I Wikipediad that shit), which are cuts of fish sitting on hand formed balls of rice, and one tuna roll. It is difficult for me to describe how fresh and delicious this dish is, because for me there are only three degrees of sushi:

1. Bad sushi. This is what you get at the grocery store. The rice is all dried out and hard, and most of the time they don't even use real fish due to the fact that it has probably been sitting in that cooler for a week or so. Even if they did use real fish, I wouldn't eat it. If you are really desperate and are going to eat this stuff, the safe bet is the California roll, which has no fish in at all.

2. Ok Sushi. This is everything that is not number 1 and not number 3.

3. Amazing Sushi. You know it when you taste it. The fish is so fresh, it has absolutely no fishy smell. The flavor is clean, no fishy flavor here either. The texture is smooth, and it yields easily to the bite. The sushi is tightly rolled, and the rice is sticky enough that they do not fall apart when you pick them up. All in all, a totally satisfying experience.

Oyama definitely scores in the Amazing Sushi category. The best proof were the tears of joy streaming down the Baconator's face today at lunch. Only amazing sushi could evoke such a response, either that or the Baconator's allergy triggered sneezing fit he had right before eating.

Go there:
136-150 Berlin Road
Cromwell, CT 06416
Tel: (860) 632-2324

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