Kikaku - Dusseldorf Airport, Germany
Among the cafetarias, the coffee houses, the fast food joints and the pubs/restaurants lined across an international airport, it's often a very welcomed changed to eat in a sushi bar. Since we are talking about Dusseldorf , a city with over 10,000 Japanese inhabitants, the chances of the sushi bar at the airport couldn't be that bad...right???
Oh how wrong I was.
MAKI ROLLS: Dusseldorf Maki & Unagi Roll
When I lived in Japan, we had convenience stores like Circle K, 7-11, and Lawsons selling sushi. At the time, I used to think it was at best mediocre. If you compared the two sides (store bought and Kikaku Airport Sushi), one could almost say that convenience store bought sushi was heavenly compared to the version served at Dusseldorf Airport.
I find this troubling given the fact that Kikaku has been in the city of Dusseldorf since 1977 serving Japanese expats, German residents, and tourists with relatively good reviews. Their expansion into Dusseldorf Airport seemed logical as many travellers enjoy a quick bite before travelling.
Now let's talk about the food at Kikaku. The unagi/eel was a bizarre rubbery texture coated with most generic sweet soy sauce. There was virtually no taste of eel - just a sickly sweet sauce and some chewy, rubbery, meaty...something completely strange.
The Dusseldorf Maki which is essentially fried shrimp tempura cut into pieces and inserted into maki rolls didn't fare much better either. The shrimp tempura tasted as if it had been cooked weels in advance and thrown in the freezer. You could tell it had been brought to room temperature because all of the crispy batter of the tempura seemed old and wilted. The shrimp was also tasteless.
I was beginning to think there must be no way that a sushi restaurant could be this bad. To top it off, out of the 5 staff that were workin there, three were absolutely Japanese citizens and one other gentleman seemed as if he could speak it back to the other workers.
Japanese food is one of my all time favorites be it sushi, kaiseki ryori, or a multitude of other dishes. I absolutely love to promote Japanese restaurants too however this is that should definitely be avoided at all costs.
Kikaku - Airport Arcade, Dusseldorf Airport
http://www.kikaku.de/
Among the cafetarias, the coffee houses, the fast food joints and the pubs/restaurants lined across an international airport, it's often a very welcomed changed to eat in a sushi bar. Since we are talking about Dusseldorf , a city with over 10,000 Japanese inhabitants, the chances of the sushi bar at the airport couldn't be that bad...right???
Oh how wrong I was.
MAKI ROLLS: Dusseldorf Maki & Unagi Roll
When I lived in Japan, we had convenience stores like Circle K, 7-11, and Lawsons selling sushi. At the time, I used to think it was at best mediocre. If you compared the two sides (store bought and Kikaku Airport Sushi), one could almost say that convenience store bought sushi was heavenly compared to the version served at Dusseldorf Airport.
I find this troubling given the fact that Kikaku has been in the city of Dusseldorf since 1977 serving Japanese expats, German residents, and tourists with relatively good reviews. Their expansion into Dusseldorf Airport seemed logical as many travellers enjoy a quick bite before travelling.
Now let's talk about the food at Kikaku. The unagi/eel was a bizarre rubbery texture coated with most generic sweet soy sauce. There was virtually no taste of eel - just a sickly sweet sauce and some chewy, rubbery, meaty...something completely strange.
The Dusseldorf Maki which is essentially fried shrimp tempura cut into pieces and inserted into maki rolls didn't fare much better either. The shrimp tempura tasted as if it had been cooked weels in advance and thrown in the freezer. You could tell it had been brought to room temperature because all of the crispy batter of the tempura seemed old and wilted. The shrimp was also tasteless.
I was beginning to think there must be no way that a sushi restaurant could be this bad. To top it off, out of the 5 staff that were workin there, three were absolutely Japanese citizens and one other gentleman seemed as if he could speak it back to the other workers.
Japanese food is one of my all time favorites be it sushi, kaiseki ryori, or a multitude of other dishes. I absolutely love to promote Japanese restaurants too however this is that should definitely be avoided at all costs.
Kikaku - Airport Arcade, Dusseldorf Airport
http://www.kikaku.de/
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