Asari Sushi

Why is this place rated so poorly ?
Asari is a sushi spot with a full blown Chinese menu. What attracted me to this spot is the the lunch special! $ 6.00 for a lunch entrée with your choice of white or brown rice, and you get a free soda, soup or egg roll. I find this to be a great value for the portion. I had the chicken with orange flavor and it was good. The Chinese food here is better than the average spot in NYC and the special is impossible to beat in the midtown area.
I’m giving them a 4 because every time I have ordered here they have been fast and courteous. Also because the special is a killer value and the food has always been good. It really is an asset to my lunch options by the job. I see most of the complaints are about delivery time which doesn’t matter to me because I stop in a pick up my order my self. I can’t stress enough the value your getting here verses trying to spend $ 6 anywhere else in this area.

After waiting 1 hour for delivery that was about 5 blocks from my office the food was underwhelming. I called 4 times inquiring when I can expect the delivery and the woman on the phone was clueless. She promised to call me back but never did.
For the first time in my life I tried a new dish I had never tried — Cardboard Teryaki. It was suppose to be Beef but I am certain it was cardboard. I ordered some Spicy Tuna and it looked like Catfood. Not sure if it was Catfood as I have never had catfood but it was so gross I could could not finish eating it.
My Bento box was cold and I now have an upset stomach from the food.
It was just awful. I never ordered from them and I did not check the Unilocal review before ordering. Big mistake!
Please don’t bother with this restaurant. Please don’t…Please don’t…Please don’t.

I came in at 12:37 pm today for lunch before a meeting. I was seated promptly and given my choice of seats. I was handed a menu and asked about beverage. I said water would be fine. When I looked over the sushi menu lunch special selections which was what I came for I decided on spicy salmon crunch roll and spicy tuna roll with salad. The «waiter» which is a term I use loosely since he looked to be about 10 years old asked if I was ready to order. I ordered the spicy salmon crunch roll and the spicy tuna roll with my salad. It took 5 minutes or less for the salad to appear on the table. About ten minutes after I ordered the sushi rolls came on the same plate with wasabi and pickled ginger. The pickled ginger was not pink but white and actually caused me to taste it and I was glad I did because this pickled ginger I liked and it was white not pink. The salad was just iceberg few thin shreds of carrot and even fewer of red cabbage with sesame dressing. When finished with plates, they were cleared promptly. I was served a fortune cookie for dessert. My check was given promptly when asked. After I paid my bill and left a tip, I asked for the location of restroom and was directed to behind the screen in the back which is where the restroom is.

I mean… yeah. It’s a place you get a three roll special for lunch and expect basic rolls and miso soup. But in all seriousness, that is exactly what you should be expecting from a place like this – affordable, grocery store quality sushi.
Here’s the thing for me: they don’t cut small pieces, and they don’t charge you for sauces like a bunch of places do when you order delivery.
Finally – with the right expectation in mind, this is a decent meal. If you’re walking in here, or ordering delivery, expecting some kind of experience you’d get at Koi or Megu or Nobu… well then. Please reevaluate your expectations!

I ordered for delivery. It took 1.5 hours to get to me. Food was cold and quality was below average. I just couldn’t eat so of it. Lost my appetite. Sorry… Don’t have much good to report.

Just ordered their 3 roll special, and I didn’t know that sushi could disappoint me so much. The spicy tuna roll tastes as if it’s old. Nothing about the fish says «fresh». The only decent thing taste wise was the yellowtail scallion roll, but it was far from full. It was practically all rice. They also gave me about as much wasabi as the size of my nail on my ring finger. Plus, the delivery guy was rude. Never again.

There is little to recommend this place but plenty to admire. Well, actually, just one thing: it could give a hoot what you think. Yes, this place, I am convinced, is part of a dying breed of Unilocal-​resistant businesses that exist only for the sake of existing and doesn’t even pretend to aspire to more.
So what that mentally disturbed and shady dudes walk in and out when you foolishly choose to dine in. So what the family that owns this place is having a violent fracas with each other, then the delivery guy, then the crazy guy, then with each other again, in Chinese. So what they «retire» for the night at 8 pm despite still staying open, while you wait for the check to arrive because now you really have to run? No worries, their adorable little boy, who was doing his homework all through the ruckus, will put down his math book and check you out.
And, you know what? The sushi was far from the worst I’ve had.

Can you give negative stars? This place is terrible. I ordered take out and it literally took an hour and a half to get here. When I called after an hour and asked about my order, without any other information, the woman said it was on the way and hung up without pause.
When the food arrived, it was cold (bento), and soggy (sushi).
Just … No.

The Kani salad was good. Both the lunch prices and shrimp tempura roll were not bad. However, the staff, Philadelphia roll, shrimp + cucumber roll, and atmosphere were all pretty mediocre. (I found the Philadelphia roll to be quite fishy actually, though perhaps they just utilized a different method of preparing it that caused the taste to be more potent. Idk). There are so many sushi places in NYC — I’d pass on this one…

One word for this place and that’s nasty. Not the good kind of nasty either.
I was reviewing the usual selection of fliers that get put under my door of my apartment when I happened across one for Sushi. I was either in the mood for Sushi or Thai but I had Thai the previous week so Sushi won out. I ordered a Maki Combo A and Maki Combo C because I couldn’t make up my mind what I wanted.
The ordering process was simple enough and the food arrived in around 25 minutes. The rolls came with the usual generic «salad» and generic salad dressing which was the best part of the meal. Two tubs of miso soup were also provided which were not bad but then again how is it possible to screw up some miso soup?
The rolls were rank. They were badly made for starters and the fish was not the right colour. If fish could be roadkill then these would have been roadkill rolls. I was not impressed and I’ve rarely had bad Sushi in New York, I mean it’s hardly splitting the atom to combine fish and rice, is it? The oddest thing was just how chewy the rolls were, that more than anything else put me off. Instead of eating them myself I instead fed them to the trash chute.
Avoid.