Ryoko's

White Tuna Toro Nigiri 

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Edamame

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Salmon Skin Roll: grilled salmon skin, shiso, cucumber, burdock root, flying fish roe 

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Big Mama Roll - spicy bbq eel, egg, shiso, cucumber, flying fish roe

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Tahoe Roll: tuna, avocado, flying fish roll

Our favorite haunt serves two of our most pressing needs: (1) Fresh, buttery raw fish and (2) Maximal laziness. In fact, we're not sure how its even possible that we've gone so long without posting about this fantastic sushi place literally around the corner from our apartment. With a staff that shout enthusiastic salutations as you enter and exit, a skull full of candy, a soundtrack of 90's R&B, 2:00 AM closing time, and complimentary edamame, what's not to love? We haven't managed to find a place that has sushi rolls that come anywhere close to Ryoko's, though we tend to order the Big Mama and Tahoe Roll over and over again, because why fix what isn't broken? They're generous with the wonderfully aromatic shiso leaf in the Big Mama roll, which nicely melds the sweet tamago with the savory unagi. The tuna in Tahoe Roll is simply creamy and perfect. We usually end up pathetically trying to salvage the last grains of tobiko from our dishes of soy sauce. The Salmon Skin roll is a bit salty, but the White Tuna Toro Nigiri simply melts in your mouth. Every time we come here, we wish they had some sort of frequent customer buy-ten-rolls-get-one-free stamp card, because we'd fill a pile of those up in no time.