SUSHI

The Sashimi (slices of fish without rice) and the Sushi Combination at Kyoto includes five pieces of chef-selected sushi, a California roll, different types of fish and miso soup. Wasabi's sushi selection includes wasabi tobiko, sea eel, white tuna and fresh salmon. Tennou's unagi eel sushi and its Metairie roll are crowd pleasers. Sapporo Japanese Restaurant offers customers the opportunity to cook on a barbeque grill, or eat chef-prepared items like smoked salmon and yellowtail sushi. Little Tokyo of Mandeville allows substitutions on their assorted sushi plate, which includes 10 pieces of sushi, a hand roll and a sushi roll. Over in Metairie, Little Tokyo offers a sushi bar special of smoked salmon with cream cheese tempura. Rounding out the Tokyo tour, Tokyo Bistro on St. Charles heralds its Caviar Brothers sushi. Miyako has a sushi bento box lunch special, which includes California, tuna and crab rolls.

Sake Café in Metairie makes its crunchy roll with shrimp tempura, snow crab, avocado and seaweed with eel sauce on top. Tuna, salmon and yellowtail are available independently or together as sashimi at Mikimoto. Asian Pacific Cafe's rainbow roll puts crabstick, cucumber, asparagus and avocado inside the paper and raw fish outside. The tuna spring roll at Jasmine Café puts vermicelli noodles, grilled noodles and lettuce inside a rice paper roll. The Uptown Sake Café's chirashi sushi rests a selection of sashimi slices and shrimp atop a bowl of sushi rice. Jipang in the CBD offers an array of tuna and spicy tuna rolls. The Asian Super Buffet offers a wide range of sushi rolls and nigiri sushi (fish on top of sushi rice). Ninja's Nina roll is a large affair, combining tuna, salmon, shrimp, eel, smelt roe and four different kinds of vegetables.