Manyo-Sushi, 180 East Second St.
North Vancouver, 980-1510. Visa
and MasterCard accepted. Open
every night for dinner. Open for
lunch Monday to Friday. Take the
kids or call a babysitter? You
could ds either.

Menu for tonight:

© Sapporo beer ($4.25)

@ Half bottle of Saki ($3.75)

@. Sashimi Dinner Special ($15.75)
® Sushi Dinner Special ($13.75)

Timothy Renshaw
TABLE HOPPING

OR A first-hand

sampling of competi-

tion’s restorative
powers, diners should attend
Manyo the next time the
craving for sushi strikes.

Lower Lonsdale’s first real Japa-
nese food restaurant has, over the
past year, watched a host of com-
petitors open bright new Japanese
restaurants to the north on Lons-
dale, to the northwest in the
Westview shopping centre and to
.the west in West Vancouver.

All have doubtless taken more
than a nibble out of Manyo’s local
trade.

A less feisty operation might well
have invested negative energy in

“pining for the good oid days and

grumbling about the fickle dining

public.

‘Grumbfing, however, i is not
Manyo's style; survival is.

It has remained in business for
the past 12 years, not because it is

_one of the few Japanese restau-

rants on the North Shore, but
. because it is a good restaurant that

gives the dining public good value
for its dining dollar.

Over the past decade, Manyo
has also become an integra! part of
the Lower Lonsdale neighbor-
hood.

' But good neighbors sometimes
get taken for granted in the fash-
ionable stampede to the latest new
restaurant of the year.

And, conversely, good
neighbors sometimes start to take
their clientele for granted.

Enter the cold shower of com-
petition, an invigorating wakeup
call that has a way of making par-
ties on both sides of the neighbor-
hood shower curtain regard each
other with fresh eyes.

It put the Many braintrust back

special sushi plates.

into fighting trim. They donned
red trunks and came out swinging.

In the first round they took stock
of their opponents and saw the
Manyo experience being
duplicated and improved upon in
newer venues.

They took a few body blows and
a sharp jab or two to the culinary
chin.

But they have since come back
with some telling counter-punches
of their own.

For instance, Manyo’s happy
hour offers 50% off the price cf all
the restaurant’s sushi from 8:30
p.m. to 10 p.m. every Monday and
Tuesday.

And a revitalized kitchen has
focused attention on improving
the quality, variety and presenta-
tion of the ;estaurant’s Japanese
cuisine.

fhe combination of better value

_and better product adds up to a

Mo Betta’ Manyo, which now ap-
pears to be holding its own against
the new generation of North Shore
Japanese restaurants.

Our dinners on a recent Friday

NEWS photo Nell Lucente

: MR. MANYO... Yuki Kasukawa, co-owner and head sushi chef at
Lower Lonsdale’s Manyo-Sushi, presents one of the restaurant's

night were two of the best the
Table Hopping team has sampled
at Manyo over the past decade.

The restaurant's Dinner Specials
(a half dozen, ranging from Sushi
to Teriyaki and Tempura) are all
five-course Japanese feasts.

Ours started with Prawn
Sunomono Salad and a small but
interesting appetizer plate that in-
cluded grilled tuna marinated in
ginger and soya sauce, stir-fried
geoduck and salmon tempura; it
continued through plates of prawn
and vegetable tempura, in-
vigorating miso soup and the gen-
erous main entree; it ended with a
small plate of fresh fruit and a
piping hot mug of Japanese tea.

A full meal deal Japanese style
and a match for appetites of any
nationality.

The presentation of each of the
five courses was uniformly stylish
and colorful. From start to finish
no corners were cut, no details
were overlooked.

My sashimi, served on a half-

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