Honestly, I think I had too much expectation from ...

Honestly, I think I had too much expectation from this place. After reading the hyped review, I egged my friends to come when we were in NY. I called and made the appointment with restaurant, but had a little bit of issue since we were not understanding each other of what day to come because of the slight language barrier. Anyhow, with that issue aside, my friends and I arrived early and were told to wait until it was time. That's perfectly okay because we were early.

One of my friend, unfortunately, refuses to eat raw fish or raw anything for that matter. We asked the waiter if they had anything cooked for her since she's unable to consume raw food, but he instead gave us a condescending look and told us that's how "japanese food in New York is." If that's not a red flag, I don't know what is. We find some cooked stuff on our own and ordered it for her. After that remarked, I just pray that our food was amaze-balls in order to compensate for that horrid statement.

We order off the specials they had that day since there was grilled fish and unfried crab cake esque that my friend could eat. The rest of us ordered the combination and I, of course, absolutely had to order toro. The sushi was not prepared properly and it fell apart as soon as I picked it up with my chopsticks. Sushi-wise I want to say it's mediocre, I honestly had better in Austin in terms of quality, service, and presentation. Our grilled fish had the resemble flavor of chinese sausage and the crab cake esque ball was interesting, but not to our particular liking.

When it came to paying, it was hell. We were not aware of the no tipping system they had there and we were just going to leave with the tip. They did not let us leave and forced us to get our money. On top of that, they shortchanged us $10. I was wondering how that happened, but it did. I was not willing to go back and demand $10. Hopefully, that will encourage them to give some service to their customers. I will never come back and I do not recommed coming here if you are of the asian descent. They only seem to treat foreigners better than their own kind. That is subjective, but that was my horrible experience at Sushi Yasuda.