Happy Birthday Sushi Time!

Posted on Monday 15 August 2016 by joshwilltravel

Happy Birthday Sushi Time! Great Dinner at Sushi Ichiban Kan!

Saturday night! Time to celebrate! Happy Birthday to me! It’s Sushi time!

We love Sushi Ichiban Kan!
Our friend Hiro-san runs the best Japanese restaurant in the valley!

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Sushi Ichiban Kan in Tarzana/Woodland Hills, California

A FANTASTIC FISH!
ANOTHER WONDERFUL DISH!
SUSHI TIME YOU WISH!

We’ve written a few Blogs about Sushi Ichiban Kan (use the search box ^^^^^^) and read our previous Blogs (links below too).

ON THE MENU: Tekka don dinner (tuna bowl with miso soup and small salad), stuffed squid, volcano, albacore sashimi, baked scallop california roll, yellowtail/salmon/bluefin tuna sushi, sunomono, blue crab cut roll, spicy tuna hand roll, spicy yellowtail cut roll, green tea ice cream, iced green tea and a large hot sake!

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: Sunomono (cucumber & seaweed salad)

: Stuffed Squid w/Crab

: Alabacore Sashimi

: BSC – Baked Scallop California Roll

: Tekka Don: Tuna Bowl

: Volcano

: Blue Crab & Spicy Tuna Rolls

: Yellowtail, Salmon & Bluefin Tuna Sushi

: Blue Crab & Spicy Yellowtail Rolls

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Happy Birthday! Green Tea Ice Cream

NOTE: It was great dinner and I am truly thankful. However, the circumstances of the weekend made it impossible to actually enjoy the party in my honor. In case you missed the previous blogs, two of our dogs were killed Thursday night by coyotes in our fenced backyard. Pretty much everything related to dogs is a “trigger” for a wave of hard emotion (sadness, guilt, grief & anger) and my dinner companions kept talking about dogs, the tragedy, coyotes and wolf urine…. it was extremely uncomfortable from start to finish and not a happy distraction.

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So full of sushi. No Dessert! So birthday cake for dessert the next night!
One of my favorites: Boston Cream Pie from Bea’s Bakery!

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Boston Cream Pie from Bea’s Bakery

Great Dinner at Sushi Ichiban Kan in the Valley!

Posted on Friday 20 December 2013 by joshwilltravel

Far away from the Westside and Hollywood and Santa Monica and Downtown, in the west end of the San Fernando Valley, is one of my favorite restaurants: Sushi Ichiban Kan.

Sushi Ichiban Kan (copyright 2013 JoshWillTravel)

The restaurant is beautiful, from the front to the back, and the parking is FREE! Or at worst, you’ll have to park at a meter (which now run until 8pm) on Ventura. We went to dinner early, parked in the rear and entered through the back door. We were greeted and seated and then the real fun began

Dinner tonight was fantastic! Everything was fresh. Everything was prepared beautifully. The service was friendly and efficient. I’ve known the owner and masterchef Hirosuke and his wife for twenty years and have followed him from Kabuki in Northridge, to Hirosuke in Encino, and now to the new restaurant Ichiban Kan on Ventura Blvd in Tarzana, between Corbin and Winnetka. Trust me, if you love sushi it is definitely worth the trip from wherever you are.

Sushi Ichiban Kan - Assorted Sashimi Combination & California Roll (copyright 2013 JoshWillTravel)

On the menu tonight: stuffed shitaki mushrooms stuffed with creamy crab starter, miso soup, green salad, spicy tuna and blue crab handrolls (with no rice), an assorted sashimi combination (with tuna, albacore, yellowtail, salmon), assorted tempura and an iced green tea.

It’s not cheap, but it’s not “over the top” expensive. You can get a lot worse and pay a lot more at other places. This is top of the line fish, that rivals Nobu, and it’s a real value for sushi lovers. Be sure to tell Hiro-san that I sent you!

Sushi Ichiban Kan – 19723 Ventura Blvd in Tarzana http://www.sushiichiban-kan.com

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