Was not impressed with the sushi here. Just marginally better than AYCE places. Also, there was a weird chemically cleaning product smell in the restaurant and that really put me off. The yam sushi I ordered tasted greasy. I think the tempura oil needs to be changed. Maybe I came on an off day. The portion sizes look big and this place seems popular, but I don't think I would come back. Too many other great places in the city.

My friend waitress here and thats what got me to try this place and i absolutely love it! Really decent Jap food and not even run by Jap people. Good price, good portions and good service. I took a few friends here since and so far, everyone enjoyed the food. Love it!

As per title, usually there isn't much of a line up, so you can sit down right away instead of the long line up at Sushi Garden. The food is not as good as Sushi Garden however, but close.

I usually get one of their sashimi combo that comes with 4 or 5 pieces of sashimi plus a roll of sushi. Their friendly staff lets you change the sashimi (either salmon or tuna) depending on your taste.
They also have lunch specials for you to order at dinner time. If you get the lunch combo that comes with tempura and cali rolls, ask them to give you tempura souce and no terriyaki souce on tempura, unless you like to eat tempura with terriyaki souce.

I know for a fact that the cooks and most of the workers are Vietnamese but they do a great job at making Japanese food. I been coming here forever and I am so happy to have found this small great place. The service is always great even though at time there is one server but she always dose a great job in manning the restaurant and being a server myself I do not understand how she dose it. I have not been to many sushi joints in Burnaby but out of the few ones I have been to nothing compares to the food here. I highly recommend this restaurant and do not be shy to get the lunch special at dinner they always let me change the California rolls to BC rolls there the best in town crispy inside and soft outside.

so i always order take out from here and 9/10 the food is great. there will be that one time where the salmon isn't as fresh. the portions plus $ you pay for it is definetely a steal to me. i never had a problem with service so no complaints. the ambience...i don't really care for this but i will say that the place looks crammed and is overall too tiny. overall i strongly recommend this place.

I've been to Asakusa many times and was generally my go-to sushi place but stopped going about a year ago because I was so turned off by their service. You ask for water, the server comes back with tea. They forget your pop and still charge you for it. The lighting in the restaurant is full-on, yet it is impossible to make eye contact with your server. These admittedly are minor quirks but one day I had just had it, and stopped going for about a year.

Well, I returned recently to see that things haven't really changed however I'm not sure if it's because of a lack of training or lack of actual staffing (the back end is very crowded at times).

Asakusa has great sushi - fresh, tasty, good portions. The 'other stuff' (teriyaki, tempura) is done really well too. It is a popular place. Just don't expect fine-dining service.

Food was pretty solid. The tempura tasted more like fish and chips than japanese tempura. Offputting but not actually bad tasting.

Service not great but I was generally happy until the end when they cleared the table and we waited forever for them to ask us how it was or if we wanted anything else, or we wondered when we might get the bill. Nothing every happened, we figured out I guess you have to pay up front. A mark off for that, and while it may be a small thing, I'll probably never come back because I don't like to have to line up like a sheep to pay for my meal when there are so many other places where I don't have to do that. I'm sure this is fine for more people though.

I'd almost give it 5 stars for value as the meals are decent, cheap, and portions large. We couldn't even quite finish our basic lunches. I would have given 5 stars if the service was better.

Ambiance isn't much, pretty simple hole in the wall, biggest issue is it's just a bunch of tables crammed together in a room.

It's not all bad though, it's just a simple basic place to get a good meal for cheap. Can't really fault it for what it is, just not my favourite type of place to go to. I certainly would rather go here than Sushi Garden, which is a gong show and served me bad food. For me I'll not eat Sushi anywhere near metrotown though as I think most of the sushi restaurants in this area are not very good for one reason or another. I would have found this one decent if service was just a bit better.

I come here almost every week for dinner. It's great! The food is always good - hot, fresh and tasty. The prices are low and the platters huge! Remember to try out the Avocado and Cheese sushi - it's amazing!
If you like a sushi place that is simple (no special service, no fancy dishes etc), cheap, and has great food...this is for you. The service isn't great, and it can great quite crowded sometimes, but it's worth the wait. I'm vegetarian, so there's not that many options, but the vegetarian food they have is good too.

I've been it this restaurant many times. This restaurant runs by Vietnamese but the food is very good. Sushi is fresh and hot food is well made. You can actually order lunch special in dinner time. Service were acceptable. A good place to eat if you don't want to spend a lot.

Two of us went for dinner on a Wed nitght. Got there at 6:30 and was half full. It is small - maybe 40 seats with 5 bar seats by the chef station and another 5 facing the street. Orders came within 15 minutes. The price to portion ratio is just above average. The dragonfly roll was pretty good. So were the spicy tuna sashimi and the spicy scallop roll. But the baked oyster was disappointing. The cheese sauce and the filling were quite tasty. But the oyster itself has no taste. The soft shell crab was soggy and the smallest I've ever had. By 7pm, it was filling up and with only 2 waitresses, the service went downhill. They forgot our order of bbq salmon head and belly which was slightly over-cooked. But it was so crispy I could eat some of the bones like crackers. And I quite liked the sauce that came with it. Overall, I would come back but likely as a backup to Sushi Garden.