Ukai Japanese Restaurant

You will rate Ukai Japanese Restaurant a five star once their signature sushi and sashimi rolls touch your tongue and give it a pleasing sensation. This BYOB restaurant serves Japan’s finest dish and Chicago’s best kept secret is revealed in your table for you to feast upon. Make sure you try their appetizers too. The sushi rolls, are above excellent! The restaurant’s dim lighting and comfortable chairs give a perfect romantic ambiance for people who wants to have a wonderful and quite dining experience. Their food and service are ranked excellent by most food bloggers and food enthusiasts. Are you excited to taste their Tempura udon, or shrimp tempura? How about an adventure along with their sashimi boat platter? Or maybe you just want to have the spicy salmon maki roll? Oh, a ramen or miso soup would be good for a cold night out. The mouth-watering Japanese rolls will bring you to seventh heaven. They are unforgettable! Ukai Japanese Restaurant will be serving Japanese dish lovers in the great Chicago area and we guarantee that if you have not tried it yet, you better do, because once you taste it, you’ll always want it. If you cannot make it to the restaurant, don’t worry, they deliver freshly prepared sushi rolls too. Call their delivery hotline and the sushi will be delivered in your doorstep in time.

3 Types of Sushi

Temari Sushi

Nigiri-Zushi (握り寿司). Neta (ingredients) on top of small Sushi Rice. Nigiri means to squeeze, to grab in Japanese, referring to the movement a Chef makes to form Neta and Shari together. Neta on top of the Sushi Rice can be fish, vegetables or meats, where fish being the most widely served and consumed.

Sushi is the umbrella term that incorporates nigiri and maki presentations. Rolls would be considered makisushi and nigiri would be fish draped over logs of rice. Sashimi is another designation that entails thinly sliced pieces of fish that are presented in a manner that does not incorporate rice.

Temaki Sushi

If you are vegetarian or do not eat raw fish, you can still make Temaki Sushi with vegetables of your choice or use cooked ingredients such as Shrimp Tempura, grilled unagi, or even Chicken Teriyaki and Chicken Kaarage! It’s fun to make your own fillings, so get creative!

Temaki Sushi is sometimes called a “hand roll” because it is made of a rolled cone of seaweed, wrapped around rice and fillings. The best part (for me as a cook) is that this is a meal where everyone helps themselves. You just need to prepare a platter of sushi rice, nori (seaweed sheet) and fillings such as sashimi-grade fish and sliced veggies/mango. Then at the table, each person makes a hand rolled sushi based on their favorite mix of ingredients.

Temari Sushi

One of the easiest and the cutest sushi that you can make at home is called Temari Sushi (手まり寿司).

Temari Sushi was named after these temari balls as temari sushi’s round shape and colorful toppings resemble them. Temari sushi basically consists of 2 parts: the bottom part with sushi rice and top part with ingredients of your choice.

The restaurant’s dim lighting and comfortable chairs give a perfect romantic ambiance for people who wants to have a wonderful and quite dining experience. Their food and service are ranked excellent by most food bloggers and food enthusiasts. Are you excited to taste their Tempura udon, or shrimp tempura? How about an adventure along with their sashimi boat platter? Or maybe you just want to have the spicy salmon maki roll? Oh, a ramen or miso soup would be good for a cold night out.

The mouth-watering Japanese rolls will bring you to seventh heaven. They are unforgettable! Ukai Japanese Restaurant will be serving Japanese dish lovers in the great Chicago area and we guarantee that if you have not tried it yet, you better do, because once you taste it, you’ll always want it. If you cannot make it to the restaurant, don’t worry, they deliver freshly prepared sushi rolls too. Call their delivery hotline and the sushi will be delivered in your doorstep in time.