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We have quite an extensive menu and an item that has been humbly on there forever is our Agedashi Tofu. It's a very simple Japanese dish consisting of lightly battered and fried tofu cubes in a dashi sauce. A little green onion on top and that's about it. Very simple yet tasty. It's a great appetizer to get in between all that sushi you're eating while at Sushi World. Next time you swing by, be sure to look at our whole menu to see if there might be something else you enjoy. If not, always stick to your favorites. And also always check our Specials Board.

We hope everyone has a fun-filled and safe 4th of July holiday! Instead of lighting up sushi rolls like our Bentley Roll on our Independence Day, our sushi chefs will have the day off to light up some fireworks! So we are closed for the 4th of July! Our employees could also use the break! But, we are open the following day. And you're not going to go to work the day after the 4th of July anyway. If you're driving anywhere, please drive carefully. And also remember to be safe with your fireworks out there.

Every time you come to visit Sushi World, you can have something different. And we encourage you to try something different every time. Some items to consider adding to your sushi repertoire are our Japanese Jumbo Scallops, in-house made Ankimo (Monkfish Liver), fresh Amaebi (Live Sweet Shrimp) with deep fried heads, and our freshly shucked Oysters on a half shell. All are fantastic on their own but we highly recommend you try them all out eventually.

Some Oysters on a Half Shell with some ponzu, masago, and green onions are never a bad idea. They might help with whatever romantic action you're trying to achieve tonight ;-). We shuck fresh oysters every time and put our favorite toppings on them. Get some and hopefully, you'll get some.

Yes, it's almost that time again. Super Bowl Sunday! And it's time for us to celebrate all the awesome sushi bowls we have. Starting with our Unagi Bowl. It's baked eel with gobo, cucumber, avocado and tamago (eggs). Quite delicious and quite fulfilling, like all of our other bowls. If you want something simple, that's the route to go. We also have the Negitoro Bowl, which is fatty tuna. Our Chirashi Bowl, which is filled with 10 pieces of delicious sashimi. Or our Poke Bowl, which is filled with little chunks of delicious sashimi and dressed in our poke sauce.

What consists of a happy sushi weekend? Well, come on in and visit us one of these weekends and you'll soon find out. We have a number of different omakase-style meals where it's our sushi chef's choice on what to serve you. It's a great deal and you'll get to sample a variety of our freshest sushi. The sushi in this picture is just a few of the items that we regularly feature at our sushi bar, like Red Snapper, Bluefin Tuna, Yellowtail, and Salmon. But we also have such favorites as Truffle Salmon, Halibut, and Japanese Jumbo Scallops.

Our Japanese Curry menu is growing! Due to popular demand, we now offer a Shrimp Tempura Curry Udon! We have several new curry offerings like this one in addition to our original Chicken Katsu, Pork Katsu, and Potato Croquettes. Our Japanese Curry is made in-house with plenty of veggies and spices. It's a great option if you want something filling to accompany your sushi meal.

Being a sushi restaurant, not all of our fish or food is served raw. We also have a full kitchen behind our sushi bar ready to serve up a number of various items for patrons looking for something other than sushi, like Hamachi Kama (Yellowtail Collar), Salmon Colllar, Salmon Teriyaki, Chicken Katsu, and the pictured, Miso Marinated Black Cod. They can come a la carte (with rice), or as a combo with Miso Soup, Rice, House Salad, and 5 pieces of Mixed Tempura. It's a great option, especially when you come with a big group where someone is not yet comfortable with sushi.

Always bringing you the best Orange County happy hour around, Sushi World is proud of our various appetizers available for $5.00 all day Mondays and Tuesdays and all other weekdays from 2pm till 5pm. That includes our Chicken Gyoza, which the kids always love but we love having it with some beer. It's the perfect way to start your Happy Hour session with us!

You can also get our Shrimp Tempura Udon Curry, & Tofu Curry on Rice. That's in addition to our Chicken Katsu, Pork Katsu, and Potato Croquettes. It's perfect for lunch or to accompany your sushi meal any time of the day. Happy Hour is all day on Mon & Tue, 2pm-5pm Wed-Fri.

Who isn't ready for some sake? This bottle is Sho Chiku Bai, which is a Tokubetsu Junmai. It has aromas of Vanilla, Custard, Cinnamon, and Toasted Rice. Sushi just tastes so much better when it's coupled with the right type of sake. Our servers are well versed and will be able to point you in the correct direction, depending on your tastes and what you order. Some sakes taste better only after eating certain types of fish. That's why we have sake tastings.

If you want to move on from sushi basics, try out our Spanish Mackerel (Aji). Just to give you a heads up, it can be fishy if you're not accustomed to it. It's very distinctive as it usually comes with a bit of shiny skin, which is due to the healthy amounts of fish oil in it.

Thanks to our recent 200+ lb catch, Bluefin TunaPalooza is back! Come get some fresh Bluefin Tuna Tartare! Topped with Avocado, Ikura, and Tobiko, it also comes with some seaweed strips, seaweed salad, and some bomb dot com sauce. We have several Bluefin specials like our Spicy Bluefin Tuna Roll & Handroll as well as a Spicy Bluefin Tuna Nigiri with a Quail Egg on top. But you can also just get Bluefin Tuna or Toro Nigiri or Sashimi.

Sushi World has been fortunate enough to acquire a 200+ lb Bluefin Tuna and we want to share it with you! Bluefin Tuna Palooza is on! Check out this beautiful slab of freshly cut Bluefin Tuna Belly (Toro). Come and get it while we still have it. This is the part that always goes first and it goes fast. Be sure to also check out all the other special Bluefin Tuna items we temporarily have. Call us at (714) 828-3474 for all take-out and reservations!

We love having outdoor dining as an option! See? Something good did come out of the lockdowns. We try to see the positive in every situation! The sun's movement is just perfect for our outdoor dining as we are in the shade for the hours that we are open. It's nice to sit outside and enjoy the beautiful OC weather while still getting your sushi fix in or if you just want to sit down and have a few drinks. That's what we like to do.

You know our Poke Bowl is seriously good because we only use our very own fresh sushi-grade fish for our Poke. We take fresh chunks of Tuna and Albacore and mix it with our very own Hawaiian Poke sauce. Each bowl is accompanied by some seaweed, cucumbers, avocado, tamago (egg), and masago. Oh, and somewhere at the bottom of the bowl is our sushi-grade rice. It's a pretty complete meal and great for lunch or dinner or whenever. Great to get to-go and eat at the beach or park or during a boring meeting at work.

We know you have busy lives, so busy you don't even have time to come in and enjoy a nice meal with us. Well, we're giving you options. You can get pretty much anything you want off of our menu to go! Just order it ahead of time and our skillful sushi chefs will expertly pack and make sure your food is not only presentable, but also, so freaking delicious! It's what we do. However, we do recommend you come in and sit down with us eventually. We need to talk. There are some things we need to go over. Namely, fish.

The Speedo Roll has officially arrived at Sushi World! Like our Yamaha Roll, we named it after one of our many awesome corporate neighbors in Cypress. Employees from Speedo often frequent Sushi World so we thought it appropriate for us to show them some love with a roll of their own. It features a center of Spicy Tuna, Spicy Crab, and Avocado. It's topped with Escolar, Cilantro, Tomatoes, and Toasted Sesame Seeds. Lightly dressed with a sweet sauce to finish it off. Which neighbor wants the next roll named after them?

A favorite roll from many of our regulars is our Baked Blue Crab Rolls. We make the baked blue crab with garlic aioli fresh in house so you know it's gotta be good! It's accompanied by a little bit of rice and then wrapped in a sesame soy paper. You can always ask for it wrapped in seaweed but we believe it tastes better wrapped in the soy paper. You can also get it as a hand roll if you want it all for yourself. And, there's no raw fish so it's definitely sushi-virgin friendly. We love virgins.

A very popular dish among sushi aficionados is ankimo, also known as monkfish liver. If you enjoy foie gras, you'll especially enjoy our ankimo because we make ours in-house. It's been called the foie gras of the sea with its delectably rich taste and texture. We serve our ankimo in perfect little medallions with some gelatin and sesame seeds as garnish. Ankimo is one of those dishes where the longer you let it sit out and cool down to room temperature, the better it will taste. Next time you come in, give it a try if you're an adventurous sushi lover with exquisite taste buds.

We really shouldn't have to say much about this beauty. Just look at it. Absolutely beautiful. The fattiest and most delicious part of our Bluefin Tuna is the most desired and you can easily see why. You can see the beautiful fatty lines running all across these pieces of sashimi. Of course, this is in very limited supply so you better hurry up and come on in and get it while we still have it. Of course, our regular Bluefin Tuna Sashimi isn't bad either so that's always an option if we're out of Toro.

Sushi World's Happy Hour, the best in all of Orange County, features an array of appetizers all for only $3.99 each, which includes the pictured Shishito Peppers topped with Bonito Flakes. Now, if you haven't had it, you must! It's not spicy or hot, as you might think. It's just a pepper that tastes great! And, it's only $3.99 during our Happy Hour, which is all day on Mondays and Tuesdays and on all other weekdays from 2pm till 5pm. Also enjoy $2.99 sushi, and $12 Sapporo pitchers.

It's the day before Ash Wednesday so it's time to get loaded up on all the goodies you'll miss out for Lent. Luckily for you, every Tuesday is Happy Hour all day which means you have Happy Hour Fat Tuesday with $15 Sapporo pitchers! And you might as well get used to eating fish for Lent by taking advantage of all the other specials we have during our Happy Hour. Heck, you might as well get some sake while you're at it. If you flash our sushi chefs, they won't have any beads to throw at you but maybe they'll string up some masago & throw that instead.

We always sell a lot of Oysters around this time of year. Yep, February is the time get some Oysters, especially around Valentine's Day. You can get a set of 4 Raw Oysters on a Half Shell, which is also available as an option as one of your options for your Valentine's Day 5-Course, Prix-Fixe meal (only available on Valentine's Day). Or you can always get a whole dozen and share it with whomever you wish. We shuck them fresh and then dress them up with Masago, Ponzu, and other seasonings.

A past special that is now on our regular menu is Iitako Karaage, otherwise known as Fried Baby Octopus. There are three babies to an order and they're quite delicious, even for being babies. But don't think of it as eating babies. Think of it as eating delicious morsels of fried gifts from the sea. Yeah, think of it that way and you'll enjoy them as much as we do. Swing on by soon and always check our specials board first before ordering. You might be pleasantly surprised.

Did you know that these types of sushi are called, Gunkan-Maki? When it's wrapped with nori seaweed with a little rice and then topped with something like Uni, Masago, or Spicy Scallops , they're called Gunkan-Maki. "Gunkan" means battleship. Would you like to sink these battleships down your throat?

Our talented sushi chefs can make anything you'd like into a sushi hand roll. They are very creative. And, they like the challenge. We, of course, have the classics, like spicy tuna, salmon skin, and spicy scallops. But we also have a vegetarian hand roll, called the avocado roll (don't knock it till you tried it). There's been a movement of trying to change the name to hand cones but we're not falling for that. They're called hand rolls, cause you eat them with your hands. And that's that.

Yeah, we can pretty much put whatever you wish into a hand roll. Like Salmon? Like Avocado? Done! Here's your Salmon Avocado Hand Roll. Any type of fish. And type of combo. As long as it can physically fit into a seaweed wrapper, we'll do it for you. We can't always guarantee your choices will be good but we do have quite a few preset hand rolls we always recommend. There's also Spicy Scallops Hand Roll, Blue Crab Hand Roll, and Bluefin Tuna and Natto Hand Roll.