Garden Salad with Ginger Dressing

What if you could go to one spot for modern Asian Cuisine, a trendy night spot, a Sushi bar and Chinese takeout? Interested? Let me introduce you to a discovery I made; Wokcano.

The menu boasts sushi and sashimi along with traditional Chinese dishes and add to that a few Thai dishes, a sprinkling of Korean and Japanese – well, you get the picture. There’s something for the “I hate raw fish” among you and the “I don’t eat meat” diners too. How about when you want sushi but your dinner companion wants Chinese? All of this is no problem!

The Golden Triangle

The first dish brought to the table was the garden salad. Now you might think a salad’s a salad and usually it is, however, this is the exception. Wokcano might serve up the best salad dressing I have ever tasted – seriously!  A bit of ginger, a touch of honey, sesame, and rice vinegar all wrapped up in a creamy dressing. General Manager Shelly Chan told us that people are always buying quarts of it. Once a man bought some for his wedding since it was his-bride-to-be’s favorite dressing.

Wokcano has a full sushi bar so sushi is not just addendum to the menu. They have all the old favorites and a few twists like the Red Dragon Roll, Black Pearl Roll and Golden Triangle Roll. The Red Dragon Roll is a spicy tuna roll topped with slices of fresh tuna and crunchy bits of tempura; heat, crunch and yum all rolled into one.

Sushi and Sashimi Combination

The Black Pearl is a dramatic presentation of salmon, tuna, yellowtail, and cream cheese wrapped in seaweed and then dipped in a tempura batter and deep-fried. This is all topped with black sesame and butter garlic sauce, very rich and decedent, a definite departure from the ho-hum sushi roll.

Triangles of sushi are filled with asparagus and avocado and topped with seared spicy tuna, mint and black masago to form the Golden Triangle. Pop one of these in your mouth for burst of flavor.

Also brought to our table was the sushi and sashimi combination, brimming with the freshest albacore, salmon, octopus, ahi, halibut and other fresh fish. This is big enough for two hungry people and 3 or 4 as an appetizer. [continued]