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Rays Sushi (Japanese cuisine)  $

 8
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888 West A Street, Hayward, 94541  (Directions)


510-887-0701


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Packed Japanese restaurant offering large sushi rolls.


Reviewer: Terry
Total Reviews: 738
Reviewed: 3/3/2006
Rating: 8
My photo gallery 		Rays Sushi has been on our wishlist (from numerous sources) for awhile, so I was finally happy to head up to Hayward and give it a try. It was a Friday night and I went with my family. We arrive and the lot is full. The inside is full of people waiting for a table. We get in there and leave our name. It would be a 40 minute wait. I am getting excited as this place has gotta be good.

I am not letting the wait affect my score as I am sure there are lots of other sushi places on jatbar (Miyakes comes to mind) that are at least as busy as Rays during the evening.

The wait was long but I wasn't bothered, with the thoughts of good food circling my head. We sit down and look over the expansive menu. I decide to split a Dragon Roll, order 2 Kani rolls, and an order of California rolls (my standard).

The California Rolls arrive first. And they look disappointing. The rolls were huge of course, but they used the immitation crab and the stick variety. Ideal would be the crab salad, and real crab. For $3.75 I would expect this, but I can't deduct too much as they provided 6 rolls for that price. Good fill-you-up sushi. I had no problem finishing them.

The Kanis arrived next. I was careful to order the real crab, not imitation, for $4/each instead of $3/each. So the picture shows my 2 orders of 4 pieces total. Despite those orange eggs on top (which I scraped off) these are the best rolls I had. Easily in the top of any Kani I got anywhere.

The dragon roll arrived last and like the other rolls, was massive. I ate about half of it and gave up. There was too much eel on top for my tastes, and the inside was rather short on ingredients. I usually prefer larger shrimp inside. Oh well. It was not bad, just eel overkill.

All in all, I would probably rate this as an 8, but I doubt I will return again. If I lived in Hayward, this would be a good night-out destination. The place sure was hopping. But Koi Sushi Boat in Union City is closer to my house, has better rolls and is less crowded.
 
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Reviewer: Shannon
Total Reviews: 28
Reviewed: 10/17/2007
Rating: 5.5
My photo gallery		 So the parking lot is under a construction a bit,... let me emphasize a BIT. Apparently there's a sign that says "open trench" so it literally scares EVERYONE who sees it and they end up driving the wrong way into traffic. THREE times it happened to me.... one after the other. I couldn't believe it.

Japanese restaurant owned by Chinese people.... hmmm. Yes, that is iffy. I placed a huge to go order and the person on the phone said it would only take 25 minutes! That's pretty short.

We ordered a dinner combo (shrimp tempura + chicken teriyaki), vegetable tempura, sashimi 30 piece dinner, crazy monkey roll, titanic roll, spicy hawaii aloha roll & the lion king roll. The total was about $112. Pretty pricey but the portions were pretty big. The slices in the sashimi dinner were very thick but come on... that dish alone was $35!

Tempura was soggy, salmon in the lion king roll was overbaked & the rice in the rolls didn't taste fresh. Yes, rice can be fresh. I liked the spicy hawaii aloha roll the most which was spicy tuna topped with white tuna. The white tuna tasted a little fishy & old though.

I wouldn't go here again... we were just looking for something nearby where we live.
 
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