I first heard about it from my mom who had it in Hong Kong. I didn't personally had a try until 2003 in Pasadena, CA. I've heard of it, and know how it works, but never experienced it. It's just fun to see your food going around.

We heard about Sushi Choo Choo from a friend who went. This is the 2nd conveyor sushi place that I've heard of in Houston, the first one was Sushi Sara (which I can't find a website for). I'm kinda sad to know that after this concept has been around for 10 years, it finally made it to the 4th largest city in the country to have it. For crying out loud, Dallas had it before we did. Mind you, there isn't one inside the loop, where the yuppies would totally embrace this concept.
This place has a U-shaped conveyor belt, and I understand this place has space and they can take up as much space as they like. However, they set their kitchen to the back, as an open kitchen, and has a normal sushi bar set up (to one side), and the little opening is where they load up the plates. That takes away part of the fun. You can still order any specialty items, but it's with your server as opposed to your sushi chef.
This place also try to please too many people at the same time. They have Teppanyaki, as well as skewers with lamb meat, as well as sushi. And the sushi isn't the best thing ever. Now, given that this is in Jersey Village, the population big on sushi is not great, which also explains why on the conveyor belt next to your sushi, you see cheese sticks. BUT! It's all over the place. I would say I'm going there for the novelty and that's it. There's better sushi places out there.
In Japan, we went to couple of places like that, and it's pretty much a self-served environment. You have your cups, tea powder, hot water, chopsticks, wasabi, ginger, all within your reach. The server is really there to keep you honest. The ones in LA, does a little bit more serving, but still focus on serving good sushi. Aside from the novelty factor, I'm not too sure what else this place has to offer.
Sushi Choo Choo
www.sushichoochoo.net
(Jersey Village area)
12149 FM 1960 Rd W,
Houston, TX
(281) 955-2888
3 comments:
Did u try the Convery in downtown?? I wanna try that one.... they said its first one in houston which is incorrect....
I'm with you! They may not have known ttat the others exist, which is poor research on their part. They can always say taht they're 1st in the loop.
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