I was driving around town with my family and they noticed how many sushi restaurants there were in San Diego. “Yes,” I explained, “Sushi is famous all over the world.” We started chuckling at some of the names of the sushi restaurants we saw, since they sound pretty funny when you’re coming from Japan. We got a kick out of “Wa Sushi” (wa meaning peace and harmony, a word that would never adorn a sushi shop in Japan), and Kabuki Sushi made us giggle at the prospect of being served by waiters in full kabuki costumes, chanting about our food as they gave it to us. We also liked the cheesiness of “Sushi Hut” with its almost-Hello Kitty mascot hawking “sushi and teriyaki.” (While teriyaki exists as a flavoring for certain foods like yakitori chicken on a stick or McDonald’s famous Teriyaki Burger, it’s actually quite a rare thing in Japan and is almost never used as a word — go figure.) Know of any other wacky sushi restaurant names? There’s one in the UK called Feng Sushi which I thought was amusing.
There are some amusing sushi restaurant names, when you’re coming from Japan.
