Sushi Train

The standard sushi rolls were half the size compared to what I’m used to. Limited variety in special rolls. The service was good though.

If I can give this Sushi Train or wait Green Papaya whatever the name is I would give it a negative 5, I would. Here is how the story goes:
I knew it was a bad idea when I tried to look this place up on Unilocal under Green Papaya as visually advertised outside, down the street, on the corner courtesy of their «fancy» street sign advertisements. If your food is that good you wouldn’t need all that mumbo-​jumbo! Any who, lets get to the good part.
Maybe 3 tables full so not busy. No excuses… We ordered Egg rolls. waiting, waiting… look over as they bring over a «plate» of something 3 tables down, about 30 sec. later the waiter tells them its not their food, takes the rolls off their table after the guy sitting there had already touched them with his fingers (no chopsticks). The waiter walks into the kitchen goes around the other kitchen entrance/​exit and brings over the rolls to our table, before we even think of touching the egg rolls my BF says, «I guarantee you, these egg rolls were the ones they brought by mistake to that table over there and now they brought them to us». I am thinking «NO FLIPPIN WAY». My BF say’s go ask the table over there if they mistakenly got the egg rolls. …So, I did and guess what! They sure were, the poor guy said, «yeah I didn’t think twice I was so hungry I just grabbed the egg roll.» I said, «ok, thanks» and walked away. I SHOULD OF WALKED OUT, I SHOULD OF, I SHOULD OF!!! I stabbed the Sh** out of the egg rolls with my fork before I demand a FRESH set of untouched egg rolls by other patrons to make sure they don’t just re-​send them back to our table. We call the manager over and called him out on what we just witnessed. He apologizes and says, «I am sorry, my son has finals this week, he is tired». UH, ok? Then maybe he shouldn’t be working here? So we get the fresh rolls… movin on.
We ordered our food, I wasn’t in the mood for sushi so I ordered the Pork Shoulder w/​Garlic Noodles. First thing we ordered was the Super Tempura Roll w/​no Tobiko. The roll came to the table w/​extra tobiko. I send it back, the owner apologizes by saying, «Oh my son only 16, he has finals.» Again, ask me why I care about his finals? Stop throwing your son under the bus and bring us our damn food.
***I am still waiting for my Pork Shoulder w/​Garlic Noodles*****
Ordered: Just the Tempura Roll. The next fiasco (I mean order) comes out. My daughter grabs the ginger w/​her hands and picks at the tobiko and starts nibbling. Young waiter (tired 16 year old son of the owner) comes to our table and says, «Oh I am sorry this order is not yours» Really? Are you for real, right now? Takes it away and does god knows what with it.
***I am still waiting for my Pork Shoulder w/​Garlic Noodles*****
My table is more than ½ way done with their food. I am sipping on Sake and Sapporo beer… getting a little light headed since I am STILL waiting for my food. No luck.
We are all a bit irritated but more annoyed that the owner would just talk like that about his son and blame him for the mishaps. At this point but we made a pact that we would never come back to this place again… Oh wait my food arrives, everybody can now watch me eat now. *SIGH*I look at my plate for a minute and see that it was NOT what I ordered. WHY JESUS WHY? They brought me a wonderful plate of Top Ramen Noodles with Chicken. Wrong table maybe?
***I am still waiting for my Pork Shoulder w/​Garlic Noodles*****
I am not hungry anymore, I have the kid call his father/​owner etc… and have them take the Pork Shoulder w/​Garlic Noodles off my bill since I never got it. He said, Fine. walks away upset. My BF wanted a cigarette to calm his nerves. I tell him I will take care of the bill, he hands me his CC and walks out.
I call the owner over and tell him that they way he humiliated his son and blamed him for practically everything was not right. He is the owner, he is the face of the business, take ownership. He walks away and as he does I told him to think about the experience we have had as customers at his place of business. He comes back, I told him to make it right. He say’s I’ll give you 15% off. I said, NO! maybe 50%. He said, NO! I said ok, I will pay for the alcohol only and we will call it even.
Ok, so my BF is back and sits down quietly as the owner and I are going back and forth. My BF witnesses the waitress pour 2 semi-​empty glasses of water from a table that just left in the pitcher of water that she was also using to pour water into our glasses the entire visit. REALLY???
My BF calls her out on it as the owner is still arguing with me about how much I need to pay. I walk up and we are ready to walk out. The owner says,“FINE, I will just charge the alcohol. It’s illegal just to pay for alcohol you know” Really in what country? Well it’s illegal and UNSANITARY to pass around food from one table to another and have strangers manhandle and share water! DON’T DO IT!!! DISAPPOINTING AND DISGUSTING!

Located inside Green Papaya on Mission, Sushi Train is an affordable lunch option in the area. Came here a few weeks ago with my co-​workers, as they were looking for a healthy dining option. We had all eaten Green Papaya’s food before, but hadn’t yet gone the sushi route here…
It was a cold day so I ordered Miso soup and a spicy tuna roll — was hoping they would warm up my thin California skin. I used to make fun of everyone who said 40 degree weather was «freezing» — now I’m one of those people! My how times have changed! The Miso soup was good, but didn’t taste like anything different than what you get out of the Trader Joe’s package. Kind of felt the same about my tuna roll, although it’s difficult to make a basic roll anything exciting. My co-​workers ordered speciality rolls and seemed pretty happy with what they got. And if sushi isn’t your thing, you can order off the Green Papaya menu instead.
Overall, it was a 3-​star experience. Not bad, not great. Probably would hit up Tokyo Express before coming back to Sushi Train but definitely wouldn’t throw a fit if we happened to eat here again.

The place is awesome… Chef (female) is most knowledgeable and can make magic with her own artistic gift. I suggest sitting on the sushi train as close to the chef as possible. The conversation starts out simple but quickly turns into a friendly to family like atmosphere, and the food is great. I recommend ordering hot sake it always compliments the dish.

It’s a sushi operation located inside a Vietnamese restaurant (
). Yes, really.
Just wrong on great many levels. I’m a huge fan of the conveyor-​belt sushi when it’s done right (quick, easy in-​n-​out, reasonable quality at reasonable prices) but unfortunately, this is not that one. One look at the stale ingredients, the mushy rice, and the overall aroma from the Vietnamese restaurant creeping into the sushi side, and your common sense should kick in at that point.
Avoid.