{"id":1421,"date":"2010-03-22T14:29:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T21:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2010-03-22T14:29:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T21:29:31","slug":"review-nishino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=1421","title":{"rendered":"Review: Nishino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dinning out\u00a0is a luxury for us ever since we began saving money in FULL force.. but we make it a point to try something really really good once a mth&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So we purposely dressed up. Here&#8217;s a pic\u00a0 of\u00a0 me in my new dress &#8211; erm.. do I look pregnant??? I am not!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/P1070728.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1410\" title=\"P1070728\" src=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/P1070728.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/P1070728.jpg 400w, https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/P1070728-168x300.jpg 168w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this month is extra special.. haha.. it&#8217;s OUR birthday month! I seriosuly miss Japanese food&#8230;so BH and I decided to try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nishinorestaurant.com\/\">Nishino<\/a>. We were only able to make reservations for 8pm which is too late for us&#8230; so the next available timing was 5.15pm .. wah.. this place is popular man!<\/p>\n<p>So we took the 5.15pm reservation and had a kinda early dinner\u00a0( wasn&#8217;t too early as I was hungry already? haha) Parking space was limited.. we parked along the road up a hill<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/nishino.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1423\" title=\"nishino\" src=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/nishino.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/nishino.jpg 404w, https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/nishino-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/nishino-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ambience was great! Shortly after we were seated, a group of Japanese ladies came.. they were wearing Kimonos! How interesting! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what we ordered<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/nishino2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1424\" title=\"nishino2\" src=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/nishino2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/nishino2.jpg 404w, https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/nishino2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/nishino2-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s this &#8216;Dine around Seattle&#8217; promo where you can choose 3 courses ( appetizers, entree, dessert) for $30! I tried the pronmo while BH ordered a grill squid.. man.. the squid was huge!!! and it&#8217;s delicious!!<\/p>\n<p>My appetizer was crab cakes! I love crab cakes!! \ud83d\ude00 the crab meat was so juicy and tasted really good! My main course is a plate of sushi ( abt 11 rolls) and very filling. The wasabi is super powerful.. ate till my tears flowed down.. haha.. the sashimi were very fresh!! love it!! Dessert was abit disapting.. the Red Berry cake was soooooo sour!! and it&#8217;s supposed to be from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hiroki.us\/\">Hiroki<\/a> Maybe I shld have taken the Green tea tiramisu cake!<\/p>\n<p>We also ordered a special seattle cocktail &#8211; not worth mentioning.. it tasted like medicine.. haha..<\/p>\n<p>Service at Nishino was fantastic! BH requested for white rice and it was complimentary! I have complementary miso soup too! haha.. then again, BH gave more tips coz of the complimentary items<\/p>\n<p>Total cost: US$80 w tips<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll probably go back there again \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/P1070782.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1411\" title=\"P1070782\" src=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/P1070782.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/P1070782.jpg 492w, https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/P1070782-182x300.jpg 182w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last but not least&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/us-bday.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1422\" title=\"us bday\" src=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/us-bday.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/us-bday.jpg 404w, https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/us-bday-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/us-bday-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BH forgot his age and thought he&#8217;s 30!! this shows how ridiculously forgetful he is!!!! geeeez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dinning out\u00a0is a luxury for us ever since we began saving money in FULL force.. but we make it a point to try something really really good once a mth&#8230; So we purposely dressed up. Here&#8217;s a pic\u00a0 of\u00a0 me in my new dress &#8211; erm.. do I look pregnant??? I am not!! Anyway, this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=1421\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: Nishino&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}