text: So, after doing much research, hoping to find a great alternative to my usual spot for AYCE sushi, I decided on Oyshi, solely because of the great reviews I saw here on Yelp. \n\nI looked up the website, called and asked about prices, and finally my boyfriend and I decided to make the trip out. \n\nWe arrived at about 8:30pm, and it was a Friday night, so I expected it to be bustling. During our wait to be seated,  I scoped out the crowd, and noticed the usual. Mostly those under the age of 30, large groups of them in fact, and figured this must be their spot before they hit the clubs, considering their attire. Well, it was either that or the fact that the music in the restaurant sounded as if you were already in a night club. It must be set on Pandora or something. Anyway, it was only about a 15 minute wait, which wasn't bad at all. \n\nSo, besides my observations of the restaurant ambiance and demographic, we finally were able to look at the menu. My boyfriend usually orders the nigiri, so we got the usual garlic tuna, albacore, cajun albacore, and decided to try the Oyshi scallops. As for the rolls, I decided on the Sibuya No Rice, Coco, and a Bonsai. I also decided to get the agedashi tofu, grilled beef asparagus, baked mussels and seaweed salad. This was only the first round after all.\n\nWe were excited to eat until the food arrived on our table. First the nigiri, the presentation was obviously not of any importance, but you can't judge a book by its cover, so we took a few bites anyway. \n\nVerdict, \n\nthe garlic tuna was DISGUSTING. It smelled and tasted like spoiled blood. I've had garlic tuna many times at many other restaurants, and this one had to be the worst. It even looked slimy, not because of the sauce, just itself.\n\nthe albacore was seared, and also tasted old. It had the same garlic sauce poured over it as the garlic tuna, and it was mushy.\n\nthe Oyshi scallops I thought were going to be \"OISHI\" but, definitely not. They mixed it with crab meat, and very light mayo, and it fell apart immediately as I tried to pick it up. \n\nthe cajun albacore had TOO MUCH cajun seasoning! I usually love cajun albacore, and this was too much for my palate, on top of that it was DRY.\n\nmy boyfriend got his usual spicy tuna hand rolls as well, and the spicy tuna looked a little spoiled. \n\non to the rolls,\n\nthe Bonsai, had the cajun albacore on it as well, but I had to bear it to see if the spicy tuna in the center was at least average. The roll as a whole was not to my liking.\n\nthe Coco, was probably the most decent roll on table, probably because each of the ingredients in it were fully cooked.\n\nthe Sibuya No Rice, again with the spicy tuna... eh.\n\nthe appetizers,\n\nthe agedashi tofu is usually my favorite appetizer!!! It came out looking as if it were just fried up, and I commend the presentation on this one, but the center was cold, the sauce was not tasty, and I hate that it is not \"bite-size\" as most Japanese cuisine is known to be. \n\nthe seaweed salad was not a bright green and although it was crispy, it had an ugly after taste, I've had better, let's just leave it at that.\n\nthe grilled beef asparagus was drizzled in teriyaki sauce. The asparagus was perfect, but the beef wrapped around it was dry somehow.\n\nthe baked mussels were not baked enough, and the yumyum sauce was pretty tasteless. \n\nI was disappointed already, but decided to take another round of appetizers, since I knew the sushi wasn't going to be very enjoyable. I settled for calamari, shrimp/veg tempura, edamame, asian style skirt steak, and some other things that were just not memorable enough.\n\nI knew it was bad when I was scarfing down edamame and tempura. The calamari looked good, but the dipping sauces  (ranch and a mayo/mustard mix) could have been more \"asian\" I guess? My boyfriend ate the skirt steak (aka Korean bulgogi, in my opinion). He even commented \"I'm eating beef, which is probably the last thing I would expect to eat at a Sushi restaurant.\"\n\nWith that said, it smelled as if something was burning the entire night we were there! \n\nHm, it was overall a disappointing experience.  We have both gone to many sushi restaurants, with my list including restaurants in Hawaii and San Francisco, California, and I wanted to seriously give this place a chance. Unfortunately, Oyshi just did not live up to the hype!\n\nOn a side note though, my waitress was very helpful, and service was mediocre, but that's about it.