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Cat Sushi & Fusion Restaurant
9012 Mcfadden Ave
Westminster, CA 92683
www.catrestaurant.com

Ordered Dishes:
Appetizer – Philadelphia roll, eel nigiri sushi, dynamite roll
Main Course – seafood hot pot
Dessert – none
Drinks – fruit flavored soda; water

Review:

Hello, it’s Iamme!  So let’s start:

Why do restaurants that consider themselves fusionistic find it necessary to charge more for practically everything?  At Cat’s, the sushi prices were about $4~5 more than other places.   So The LovingSpoonful.net finally arrived at Cat Sushi and Fusion Restaurant and we realized we should have left before ordering. Since I had my new camera, I figured what the hell, why not try a new place, it may be spectacular! Ha! I was wrong in a different way.

The appetizer sushi:
Philadelphia Roll:

So I ordered the Philadelphia roll, a basic that you can find in most sushi places in Orange County. I use this as my standard for comparing sushi. Ahem, for $10, I expected some much more than what I found on my plate. I wanted to see a lot more fish in my philly roll, but my desire was unfulfilled. There was a much more cream cheese than fish.

Eel Nigiri Sushi:

The eel nigiri sushi had nothing special to it. I have had better, but this was okay. The eel was bland and the rice was just weird. I think a little too much vinegar to rice ratio in the sushi.

Dynomite Roll:

Ever had raw scallops? Well, we come very close to raw scallops at Cat’s!

Main Dish:
Iamme’s seafood hot pot:

Hmmm, I wonder what’s hidden on the inside?!

Awwww…. it’s sea food fried rice! Lots of different types of seafood scrapes hidden by the baby corn and mushrooms.  If you look closely, there’s corn, mushrooms, carrots, some shrimp, onions, calamari, slices of pork! egg, and pieces of white fish on a bed of white rice that’s cooking due to the heat of pot. Essentially, it’s seafood fried rice.  So you have all that mixed in with maybe a little soy sauce.  I added a lot of pepper to make it taste like something.  This is type of dish is probably great for Cat’s, since all the work is simply placing the jumbled mess on some rice, wait a little bit, and then serve.  Bam!  $15!  Easy money! No work!  Oh yeah, my recommendation is to not order this dish.

Mightypen’s main dish never made it out of the kitchen. The high school looking waiter mistook her beef on a bed of greens order for beef stew.  Mightypen by this time, not impressed with the sushi nor the clay pot, just wanted to leave.

All in all, I’ll probably go to another sushi place for better sushi and better sushi prices.  I found the prices for sushi expensive for the quality you get.  For the Vietnamese food, the prices are adequate, taste wise, not too great.  The wait staff are conscientious but lack skills.  Gah! I wanted to tell them how to do their jobs!  I found Cat Sushi and Fusion Restaurant spectacularly disappointing.

PS. If you do have staff, please inform them what type drink is called a tisane (herbal tea from anything other than tea leaves   wiki is your friend!), especially if you offer it in the menu.   And if it’s in the menu, then I expect you to serve it. If not, then update your menus!   There’s was this big blurb (1/3 of the page) about combo items in the back of the menu but it’s no longer offered.

PSS. I forgot Mightypen’s drink:
Flavored Soda

I also think someone was here before our visit?  What gave me the clue?  Could it be the bread crumbs on the tablecloth?

Plastic chopsticks painted to look like silverware = nasty!!

Rating:
2 out of 10 Spoonfuls

Value:
$$$