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azdood85 t1_j6f1zfq wrote

Please tell me thats not homemade. And where can I get it?

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WildcatKid t1_j6g72z3 wrote

https://thesushico.co.uk/products/sharing-platters

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toasterb t1_j6gqku3 wrote

Man I’m glad I live in Vancouver. Out of control housing costs, but at least we have the cheapest/best sushi outside of Asia.

£42.50 is about $70CAD, and I bet you could get that for $30-40 here.

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somersquatch t1_j6h2fwb wrote

You are having a laugh if you think you can get all this for $35-$40. That's coming from someone who lives near Vancouver.

7 rolls & 6 pieces of nigiri.

Nigiri ~$2 a piece on the cheap end, so $12.

6 rolls are gonna be at minimum $6 each so that's $36 right there. Plus the edamame is another $5 added on, so $53+ taxes and such, it's gonna be $60+ easily. This is all on the low end, I can't say I've ever seen a sushi place with rolls cheaper than $4.99 and often you're sacrificing quality at that point.

However if you have a sushi place you know of that would allow me to get this much for $40 or less please do share, they'll appreciate how much extra business they get from it.

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toasterb t1_j6h6t19 wrote

Sushimoto at Holdom Station in Burnaby - I priced this out at about $25-30, as I’m not sure which rolls some of those are so I took some guesses. The nigiri pieces there are about $2.50 and those rolls are about $4-5, none of it is fancy stuff.

Enjoy your new favourite sushi place: Sushimoto

A really high quality place tucked away where nobody knows about it. A truly hidden gem.

I bet that I could price this out at Dragon Sushi in Fairview for under $25, but the pieces would be larger — bordering on unmanageable — and the quality would be lower.

Edit: looks like you’re from Victoria, and while you’d think it’s the same, it’s not. Somehow prices are lower and quality is better here. Maybe you’re just too small of an isolated market and it ends up costing more.

I definitely have friends from Victoria who make an explicit point of getting sushi when they’re in the Lower Mainland.

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somersquatch t1_j6h9gmk wrote

I'm not sure why you priced it so low, as a quick 10 minute look at the menu of a place I've never been before shows that the breakdown is much higher than $25 or $30.

Just the 6 rolls alone would be on average ~$4 each, and that's low end imo. These aren't one ingredient rolls with no sauce or extras on top, like the $3.50 rolls at Sushimoto. So I'm using $4 average even tho it could be $5. $24 for 6 cheap rolls is still very good value, but we're leaving out the 6 pieces of nigiri @ $3 a piece (higher than the $2 I had guessed), so that's another $18. Gonna be easily $40+, approaching $50+ with taxes. The closest thing on the menu to the box pictured is the party tray A, which is 5 rolls, and 12 pieces of nigiri, for $46. That's not a bad deal by any means, but it would still leave you paying $50+ for less sushi than OP got. Quality matters though, for all we know the sushi OP ate was ass lol.

Now, I'll absolutely be going to Sushimoto, and likely often if it's good, because those prices are cheap for 2023. But long gone are the days where you could spend $25 bucks at a decent sushi place and get a large quantity of food.

Edit: and yes, I'm from Victoria, born and raised in Vancouver though. My favorite sushi place in Victoria is similarly priced to Sushimoto, and if the quality is anywhere similar, I'm sure Sushimoto is awesome. But even at my local place I couldn't get this much for less than $50 OTD, but a tray of 8 separate rolls (some bigger/better than pictured by OP) is $49.99, and that's a 58pc tray.

Editedit: I'll also say, my favorite sushi roll from my local place was $11.99 ~6 months ago. It's now $16.99. I actually fully believe that you could get the same amount or more than OP in Vancouver for $30 just a year ago. But prices have shot up like crazy from what I'm seeing.

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its_justme t1_j6i5ivo wrote

There’s a bunch of random hole in the wall sushi places which are that cheap at least in Vancouver. Recently I went to one up the street from English bay (can’t recall the name) but was super cheap for a bunch of sushi and couple Sapporo

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xen_deth t1_j6hree3 wrote

There's also not a full roll anywhere on that plate...that's going to help the price a bit.

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Lady_Dinoasaurus t1_j6he80m wrote

I got so excited to see a .co.uk that I was ready to drop £50 on sushi but it doesn't deliver to my area 😭😭😭

I'll grab a wee yo sushi and be sad about it

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Fullm3taluk t1_j6hp51g wrote

Just don't buy a drink with your sushi they are fucking rip off in yo sushi

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ParrotDogParfait t1_j6g5gy9 wrote

The tag [I ate] means that it was bought somewhere. And I second that question, where did you get it OP?

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