Gaijin Japanese Fusion

Great Japanese restaurant! The sushi and sashimi is superb and high quality. They have an all you can eat special for $42 that I am sure I very popular. Interesting variety of sushi rolls and fillings. I love their Deluxe Sushi and Sashimi combo. Highly recommended.

Love this place.i have been here a few times and always have a great experience. Such a great range and the sushi is fresh and everything taste great. The staff are friendly and always attentive.

Quantity is very good - asked for 10 serves of sashimi and really got 10 serves
Quality is meh - slices were rather bad and sushi don’t hold together, very sloppy. Each sushi dish got 8 pieces so it’s very filling after a few

For the price of $50 all you can eat sushi and sashimi, could’ve done better

Went there yesterday thanks to the food reviews. Absolutely no idea how they got there but this place is terrible.
Phenomenally overpriced food that is some of the worst sushi I've had. We got the all you can eat menu and the sushi was tiny rolls of mostly very badly cooked sushi rice and a tiny filling. The sushi rice was somehow too mushy but also had Crunchy bits. I'd say undercooked with too much water.
We ended up leaving after the first round. I've honestly had better sushi from 7/11.
The staff were okay and accommodating of us leaving early and paying only for what was eaten rather than the full all you can eat price.
But still came to $57 for 3 of worst sushi rolls I've ever had, some edamme and agedashi tofu which was okay.
Whoever they have in the kitchen has no right calling themselves a cook or chef, I'd be embarrassed with the quality of rice that we had. I would advise strongly people bypass here until they change management or something. The price they command for the quality is insane.
Clearly the people saying this is good have absolutely zero taste and knowledge of what sushi actually tastes and the texture it should be. The other reviews are so far from the truth of our experience that I would almost say they are fake to suck people in.

Delicious and fresh! Loved the Ahi Tuna, Crunchy Spicy Tuna and Melbourne roll! The Dragon vs Tiger roll was also surprisingly good (considering I’m not a fan of Unagi/eel). My husband also loves the Baked Dynamite. The fried rice was also great. The half serves of sushi is also a great way to try more different types of sushi!

We were really optimistic heading to this place and absolutely starving - got the all you can eat menu. We ordered 3 sushi rolls and edamame and agedashi tofu to begin. We had the edamame and tofu and although not impressive we were still hopeful for the sushi. Starving, we tucked into the rolls. It was hard to eat, largely overly glutinous rice that was both soggy and crunchy - we were disappointed. The rolls were quite small compared to pictures we had seen and being largely the rice we decided to quit there. Don't recommend this place if you enjoy good sushi sorry.

Missing this place in lockdown! Such great sushi rolls after all the abomination sold in cheap fast food sushi joints around CBD

Delicious if you like a western style of sushi, with sauces, not-so-thin rolls and the such. Don't come here if you're looking for authentic Japanese sushi. That said, I absolutely love it and I'm a regular here! Service is really good too and the staff is super friendly.

The only reason why I don't rate it 5 stars is because the place has had a bit of a run down look for a year or so. There's a major leak on the roof in the middle of the restaurant and the wooden floor broke there, for example.

But don't let it deter you from giving it a try! It's a hidden treasure.

Great Japanese food, lovely staff and good value for money. Most definitely will come back for more!

You must know about it before you go there. You are going to waste money from wrong priced menu. Kingfish sashimi did picked bone out properly. Tuna sashimi was the worst quality ever.chicken Udon was green. The collar change from the wakame juce into miso base. (Ingredients wasn’t good, it was wakame, few diced tofu, funge mushroom, 1 piece of crumbed chicken thigh and noodle with soup for $20)

Additionally, POS machine was broken when we tried. It wasn’t big deal but problems was every bad experience was just in the first time visit. There are no second time.

There are no all you can eat for sushi, only all you can eat for roll which is 20cm for each portion. So if you order 2or 3types you already too full to try enoughly various food for buffet.

Food was nice but very expensive for what was served. The all you can eat option is greatly overpriced.

Booked 5 days in advance and I come to Gaijin disappointed. My group of 7 people did the all you can eat sashimi and sushi deal. Initially ordered 30 pieces of sashimi from each fish and later was told by the server 'we don't have enough fish for today'. Their only excuse was that they did not know there was a booking for 7 people today and there was miscommunication error. Considering this is a sushi restaurant and saying 'we don't have enough fish' is a poor attempt at business. 1/5 star

Came as a group of 7 that was pre-booked 5 days in advanced. Arrived for the all you can eat sashimi and immediately ordered 30 pieces of each of the 3 fish options available. Waiter immediately said that there was not enough to fulfill our request and offered a 10% discount on the ala carte sashimi instead. This is a joke, how does a sushi bar not have the capacity to cater to 7 people let alone hundreds of others? AS AN "ALL YOU CAN EAT"
Will definitely not be coming back.

Very decent Japanese fusion food. Good flavors and textures. They do seem to pad the rolls with a healthy portion of rice, so it's easy to fill up. Most people would be fine ordering the combo rolls for 30 rather than AYCE for 42. I didn't try the sashimi, but did see others order it, and it was thickly sliced as other reviewers mentioned. Tasmanian roll (pictured) was great!

Great food. Value for money and exceptionally taste.
Love how fresh the food was. Highly recommend the pork belly.

I was really excited about trying this all you can eat sushi place. While they did deliver on quantity, quality was not up to par. The tuna did not have the right mouth feel and left us questioning if it was real. That being said, most of the rolls we had where tasty although very rice heavy. Speaking of rice it was rather over cooked. Service was not great but not bad either. I’m glad I checked it out but unfortunately will not be back.

Sushi is ok, but they use too much rice that makes you really full. The all you can eat option is a waste of money if you like sushi and want to eat a lot. When I do the all you can eat is because I want to be able to try most of the dishes on the menu, not only 3-4 of them (beacuse the rice makes you full). Miso soup was disgusting, taste like sugar.

If you want sashimi, you pay 8$ extra but i do really NOT suggest it. They give you the worst parts of salmon, tuna or kingfish, full of fat and that's all.

Having stayed at The Quest Prahran and this Japanese restaurant being just around the corner, my partner and I thought we'd give it a try.
My review may seem a little on the harsh side as I have been a Japanese chef for 27 years, but here we go.
The entrance windows being covered in dust should have given us an indication that they don't care about the overall cleanliness and appearance of the place.
As we walked into the establishment, we noticed a feint smell which was unusual for Japanese restaurants.
No Japanese staff were visible, but not a great deal so long as the chef is Japanese and/or has extensive knowledge of the cuisine and its presentation.
By this time we really hungry and we're happy to settle for anything semi decent.
We ordered: Tempura prawn Cha-Soba salad, Sushi & sashimi combination, and the Agedashi Tofu.
***Agedashi Tofu - The favour was not bad, but lacked in presentation. Japanese food should be presented with the food standing tall in the centre if served in a bowl.
***Tempura prawn Cha-Soba salad - The Soba was over cooked and had no bite to it. The meaning of Cha-Soba is Tea flavoured Soba, but we couldn't taste the tea as it had a salad dressing on it which masked the flavour. Hardly a salad when it is just a small ball of Soba with salad dressing on it with a small amount of Kizami-nori (shredded seaweed). The tempura prawn was nice and crisp but was either overcooked or cooked in old oil as it was darker in colour than tempura should be.
***Sushi/Sashimi combination - This started off a little wrong with the dish's front facing myself. If a plate is dished up tall at the back, lower at the front, then the 'front' should ALWAYS face the key guest, female, and when unclear on whom the key guest is and both being of same sex, then the plate should face the senior. The kingfish was nice and fresh, the salmon was reasonably fresh also, the tuna was a snap frozen cut (which is commonly used in a lot of restaurants with a lower budget). However, the Sashimi slices were cut too thick and big that they become chewy as you eat it as it loses its soy flavour after the first few chews. Sashimi should never be cut too thick for this very reason. The sushi rice lacked sushi vinegar, and if they make their own sushi vinegar it lacked salt. The Nigiri-zushi (gripped sushi) was over-gripped and turned the rice into mushy balls rather than easily falling apart in the mouth. The Salmon carpaccio to the centre of the platter was random cuts of salmon with some dressing on it. Very lacking in flavour and creativity.
We walked out leaving what I took a photo of and paid $75.00 for the three dishes and a generous glass of wine.
I don't think we'll ever return, but hope that they up the quality regardless.

If you are looking for the yummy sushi, that’s the best place, and tasty staffs are really friendly.

Had the all-you-can-eat sashimi. Some of the dishes were good, the rolls were poorly made; they broke easily, way too much rice and not enough filling. Service was somewhat slow too but not too bad.