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Quick Summary:
- An All You Can Eat sushi restaurant in Manchester, with the option of an A La Carte Menu as well
- Offering different types of sushi, noodles, rice, fried and from the grill and lots more
- With gluten free soy sauce and the staff can inform you what options can be made gluten free
- Location: Manchester, Portland Street
Preparing for Japan: Exploring Sushi and Japanese Restaurants
Ahead of the Japan trip that me and my partner will be going on in a few weeks, we wanted to try more Japanese and sushi restaurants. As I imagine we will be having lots of sushi on the trip, and we thought it’d be important to educate ourselves on the different dishes that’ll be available for us. So, what’s better than trying as much as you can at an All You Can Eat at Sushi Mami?
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Sushi Mami Experience: Affordable All-You-Can-Eat
We were so excited to try Sushi Mami. It was only £29.00 each for All You Can Eat on a weekday which is a really good price considering the amount of food we ordered.
Once seated, the waitress demonstrated the process of ordering food on the tablet. There is a way to see the allergens for each dish, by holding down the picture, and for some dishes which contained gluten, you could ask the waitress and they’d let you know if you can request it without gluten. There were quite a few options, especially the dishes that you can request without gluten, although normally this meant the sauce being taken off.
We were also provided gluten free soy sauce. I had actually brought some with me just incase but it was reassuring to know they were prepared for coeliacs.
We were also told to not order too many dishes at once, at a maximum of 3-5 dishes each at a time. This was fine as the food came out really quickly so we didn’t wait long between each order. My only concern for this would be when the restaurant is really busy on a weekend, we went on Wednesday, as I think you’d have to wait a lot longer between each order.
Sushi Pieces: Nigiris and Gunkans
The image above shows the smoked salmon nigiri, salmon gunkan and the seabass nigiri. Both nigiris were gluten free but the salmon gunkan was not gluten free (my partner had the gunkan). From what I have learnt about Sushi restaurants, normally the sushi can be made gluten free but some of the fish will be coated in soy sauce, so you do need to always check just in case. The nigiris were delicious, I dipped them both in my small bowl of soy sauce and they tasted fresh.
Sushi Handroll: A Perfect Bite with GF Soy Sauce
The image above shows the salmon handroll at Sushi Mami. I think the hand rolls are becoming my favourite type of dish at a Japanese restaurant. I like the decorative stands they are placed on and I think they look so pretty with the fish and veg sticking out of the rice. They’re also so easy to eat, I tend to pour a bit of soy sauce down the roll so it can reach all the rice. The handrolls were relatively smaller than what I’d prefer, but they were gluten free and tasted good.
Maki Rolls with lots of different fish to try!
We also tried the salmon maki, avocado maki and tuna maki rolls, as seen in the image above. These were delicious when dipped in the soy sauce and were small enough so weren’t too filling. My favourite was the salmon maki roll as it just goes so well with soy sauce.
Lacking GF Options with the Sauces and Fried Section
Another dish I tried was the seaweed salad, this went well with the fried rice or eaten together with a maki roll. Not many sauces were gluten free so it was nice to have a salad with a dressing on it to mix with other dishes.
Overall, Sushi Mami was an enjoyable experience with lots of small dishes to try, even if you’re gluten free. However, one issue I did find was that most of the dishes such as on the Teppanyaki or Robata Grill section had a sauce and therefore contained gluten, and as we were ordering on a tablet we had to keep asking the waitress to come over to check that it can be made gluten free. If the tablet had an option to allow you to put gluten free if it was possible, then the experience would have been better. Despite this, the waitress was really friendly and happy to help so it wasn’t a big issue. We were even gifted a small panda to use to help us with our chopsticks, we weren’t very good at using them, and the waiter was so friendly and said we could keep it.
So Many Options and All Served On Small Plates
There were a few other dishes that we had, but I did not take a photo. As we kept ordering so many, it was getting harder and harder to keep my phone out and snapping pictures before we got our hands on the food. Above, the image shows what my partner had, very gluteny, which were the spring rolls and king prawn udon noodles. These were very small portions which was really good as it meant you didn’t get too full on only a small number of dishes, and got to keep trying new plates.
Would I recommend Sushi Mami to coeliacs?
I really enjoyed Sushi Mami and I would recommend it to someone who is gluten free, but I’d advise you to check with the waiters before ordering something with gluten in the dish. There were options to take out the sauce by typing this on the tablet, or even by typing ‘No Gluten’ in the notes, however this method did not work for a few dishes as once the dishes got to our table and I had double checked it was gluten free, the waiter said it had gluten in them. So definitely check with the waiter before doing this on the notes section and ordering as I think the chefs didn’t always read the notes part.
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