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I am a food lover. I travel to many places and always get serious to try either restaurants recommended or to search for a new advanture. I have a way of visually exam and tell which restaurant I should try or avoid. Of course when I find a good restaurant I almost always like to comment on the dishes and prices and services.
I do honest reviews and like to even review dishes that I did not order. Because I can see the presentation and almost can taste the dishes without actually tasting it. Yes I am that good!

Favorite Foods:
Chinese, Italian, Mexican, Thai and Vietnamese foods.

Favorite Drinks:
I like mostly sweet after dinner wines

Picky About:
Good Chinese dishes and American dishes if the price is high.

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Philly Beek sandwich

This is not a true Philly beef. It should be called a roast beef sandwich on 1/15/2011
Taste: 2 Presentation: 4 Originality: 1

Review: So what is the difference? A true philly beef should be prepared from raw slices of some kind of steak meat including the rib eye steak. It is cooked to order with fresh ingredients. But here at Annie's, what you get is slices of roast beef (they could not even do thin slices, the thickness I had could be thinned down at least 50%)already cooked and then they make it look like a Philly beef by grilling the already cooked slices of roast beef and let there be some burned color. I could not tell if the onion and green bell peppers were already pre-cooked. I would not be surprised if they were. So this dish was poorly prepared and is not a traditional Philly beef sandwich. Be on the alert!. By the way, even the roast beef tasted dry, however it had some flavor to them. The bread was fresh. I still would not recommend this dish.

The Works Omelete

Why do they cook this breakfast with such a sloppiness! on 1/15/2011
Taste: 2 Presentation: 4 Originality: 3

Review: You get fooled by the presentation at first sight. As you dig into the omelete you realized that The Works should not be called an omelete but should be called an egg wrap. There is poor intergration between the eggs and the ingredients. The cook must just pan fried the eggs and piled the already cooked ingredients onto one side of the egg sheet and closed the other side by a wrapping action. An omelete should be using fresh ingredients in an egg batter and then on a grill, fry the mixture- you get an omelete. The hash brown tasted oily with stale taste. So that means the oil was from a reused portion probably from the oil used to do the french fry. I thought only the Chinese restaurants would go cheap with reused oil. I would not recommend this dish to anyone.

Chirashi

sushi rice under the fish pieces was warm and plain taste on 8/5/2010
Taste: 3 Presentation: 2 Originality: 2

Review: I was shocked with the presentation of this dish. The fish pieces were cut big ( my feeling is that the chef is not skilled in cutting or it could be the chef is generous with the fish that day). The varieties were not there. They are not consistent each time you order this dish. So I want to warn the next person ordering this. The rice under the fish is warm (this is a warning that the chef does not know what he is doing or shows no respect to how a Japanese dish should be prepared. As the cold cust of fish is being warmed up by the warm rice under you see the blood of the fish staining the rice! Very un appetitising! The chef needs to go back to cooking academy and relearn to respect the dish. As far as the total quantity, there were not enough variety of pieces to please your appetite for what you pay for the dish. Over all I was kind of mad at the chek that what a lazy person sloppily prepared my Chirashi. I would not come back here again.

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Annie's Breakfast & Steaks

I returned from one year absence and was dissappointed on 1/15/2011
Overall: 3 Service: 3 Decor: 3 Clean: 3 Price: $$$

Review: I was here with my daughter last year and had the omelete and liked it enought to return this year. I was totally disappointed with the quality of the food. I have to say that for American food cooking the quality has gone way down and I would not recommend this place for omeltes or philly beef sandwiches.

Wasabi House

Wasabi has been here for a while but they tried hard to do the Japanese food on 8/5/2010
Overall: 3 Service: 2 Decor: 3 Clean: 3 Price: $$$$

Review: If you eat the tempura here, it is deep fried, It is not the real Japanese style with fluffy batter. If you try the Chirashi or sushi (read my review), their cuts are bigger than most restaurant but the presentation is not appealing. Wait until you bite into the sushi rice. Sometimes you may think that is just plain rice because the flavor of vinegar and sugar is not strong or not there at all. One time the rice is still warm and was layed under fresh raw fish. How long do you think the fish will turn warm as well. Yuk is the right expression! When you walk in the place it is friendly but it is not real Japanese feeling probably because of the way the place is managed and cleaned and arranged. So what is the Japanese feeling? It is strict kitchen management and it is strict cleaning of the place inside and out. One time I did notice the kitchen brought out a big dish of Chinese food and that gave the suspecion that this place is managed by Chinese management. Nothing wrong with that except most of us don't know that is representative by the Chinese buffet restaurant management. So what? Chinese people can prepare great Japanese food. If you have been to Taiwan, the Taiwan style of Japanese food is just as great. But the suspecion comes from my experience in California. When sushi became popular in the 1990's, the Vietnamese, Korean and the Chinese owners all wanted to have a market share. So you see an emergence of Chinese buffet places advertising all you can eat sushi. In Sacramento area, you have Samurai Sushi on Hazel Ave. run by the Korean style of management. If you go to one buffet place and my advice is that you don't try the sushi because they don't taste good or fresh. If you think they will have the fresh tuna like Mikuni restaurants would offer in Sacramento, you can forget it. It will never happen. Lets focus on Wasabi, I think this restaurant is run by Chinese (nothing againt the owner of the place) sytle of management. You can feel it. For example some Chinese places do not clean the carpet even when it is dirty. That is usually not the case with real Japanese restaurant. Yes, you can tell from the food. See my review of Chirashi and sashimi. You should not be fooled with just the name of the place. The name could be misleading anyway. You must be there and taste the food and then you can be the judge. Of course you should always check out the restroom. This is a secret that I am giving away when I want to see how clean a restaurant is I check out the restroom. Overall I give Wasabi a C for tryng to cook Japanese food. If you are hungry for Asian food Japanese flavor, this place is okay only for lunch. If you are really picky about the freshness and taste, go to Shige sushi for lunch and Mikuni for lunch boxes. Shige Sushi on Madison Ave. has the best Chirashi in town.

Shige Sushi

Great Food but Service can be improved much more on 8/4/2010
Overall: 4 Service: 3 Decor: 3 Clean: 4 Price: $$$$

Review: This is a Restaurant by Mr. Shige who left the previous location on Howe Ave. He is the owner and you will see him wearing glasses working at the sushi bar as you walk in the place. The restaurant reminds you of a small Japanese eatery in the countryside with nothing fancy and only simple decors. Mr. Shige is friendly and makes his own sushi dishes and there is another young fellow who works along side Mr. Shige. The waitress is friendly most the time but when it is busy you will not find her smile at all. Plus you may find yourself being ignored if you are sensative to services and attentions. Well, you come here for good food. Outside of Mikuni, this is the Japanese restaurant I would come to because I trust the cleanliness and kithcen management. I have introduced friends to this place and they were turned off by the waitress so I am putting this comment here to tell the waitress if she can improve her manner of service, Shige Sushi will be the place second to Mikuni (see my review).

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