Wasabi - Manchester

Worst sushi I ever had, salmon nigiri was paper thin. Sushi rice was not seasoned properly

Great conveyor belt sushi place in downtown Manchester. After the lunch rush you can get in, get seated and start eating within a minute. It's actually really cool. The sushi itself was very good quality and a wide variety. They even gave us a 50% discount on our bill which we were very surprised at so it was extremely cheap. Even at full price it would have been reasonable. Not 5 stars because the service wasn't actually that good. Fortunately in a self serve restaurant it's not a huge detractor but it took too long to get drinks and ask for the bill.

This place is awesome! I didn't expect to find a place that sold Mango Sago and other types of Chinese sweet dessert, or shaved ice in the middle of Manchester. Hell, it was hard to find a good mango sago place even in the U.S, where Chinese community is big. And I found it right here in the middle of Manchester Chinatown! I got the mango sago with mango, black pudding, and white rice balls. It was delicous, light, and exactly what I expected it to taste like. The dessert shop was pretty empty at lunch time. but the interior was nice and well-decorated. This dessert shop was hidden on the upper floor of the conveyor belt sushi restaurant Wasabi, and that made it even more of a hidden gem.

This restaurant seems to be very popular especially for the younger crowd, as there was a queue outside when we first passed by before we finally decided to give it a try about half an hour later. We were seated by the sushi conveyor belt near the entrance very quickly. My friend ordered a mixed sashimi for 1 person while I had the set C teishoku (set meal). The £18 mixed sashimi had salmon, tuna, tamago (never thought that would be considered a sashimi item), and surf clams. It didn't seem very impressive in terms of the selection of fish (and eggs). My £21 teishoku was better as it came with mixed tempura (although they didn't give me the sauce that should typically be served with tempura), udon in broth, miso soup, 6 nigiri sushi, 2 pieces of salmon and tuna sashimi each, daikon radish, grilled salmon belly (it should be grilled cod but they ran out so they substituted it with 2 pieces of salmon belly). The best item was the grilled salmon belly which was done perfectly well. I gave 4 stars because of that grilled salmon belly as everything else would probably be just average.

We went to Wasabi for the dessert room. We wanted yam ice cream and got it. The taro snow ice cream was fantastic. Frozen shaved ice cream with red bean and rice balls. Absolutely lovely and worth the detour.