Mega Sushi was our go to place for dinner yesterday, after some afternoon medical appointments in the Austin Heights area of Coquitlam.  The restaurant is located within a small plaza of shops, with a good-sized parking lot - we arrived about 4:30 pm, and easily found parking directly in front of the restaurant.

After an initial welcoming upon entering, we were directed to a booth (one side of the restaurant has booths, the other side, tables & chairs) - our server returned promptly with menus and mugs of hot tea.  The restaurant was empty of other customers at the time, but all staff were busy taking and preparing orders for takeout (several customers came in for such during our stay there).  I ordered a couple of appetizers, and then placed the rest of our order just before the first appetizer arrived at our table - the other dishes arrived soon after we had received the second appetizer.  Nice service, and it worked well for us.  Service was good throughout our meal - friendly and efficient - checking on how we were enjoying the food, and keeping our tea mugs full.

What we (threesome) ordered and shared: 

-  Appetizers -- spicy agedashi tofu, and ebi gyoza (pan-fried dumplings w/prawn and veggies) (5pcs) - two, very well-prepared dishes, each pretty, and so flavourful — sauce with the tofu had a tasty ’zip’, and the tofu itself, so soft, and creamy — the prawn gyoza was such a nice treat - coverings tender, ingredients so distinctly flavoured and tasty.       

-  Tempura -- prawn and yam (8pcs) —  batters were thin and crispy, prawns, firm, not overcooked, and yam slices, a touch ‘el dente’, perfect.  A very good preparation of a favourite dish.     

-  Sushi and Roll combinations -- spicy salmon combo (spicy salmon roll, w/2pcs each of tuna, salmon, and prawn nigiri), and roll combo (California roll, w/tuna, salmon, and kappa rolls) — the spicy salmon rolls were really good, very flavourful and spicy, the sauce, as with that on the tofu, had a nice distinctive and tasty zip - the nigiri preparations were ok, looked and tasted fine, but nothing out-of-the-ordinary — the California rolls and other rolls in the roll combo were fine, decent preparations, but lacked ‘something’ to really make them stand out from others we’ve tasted elsewhere.  Overall, the combo preparations were fine, they just did not present anything particularly unique. 

-  Noodles -- seafood yaki udon (pan-fried-thick noodles, w/seafood) — a very fine preparation, brought looking good, and really sizzling-hot to the table - the noodles were great, for my taste, perfectly-prepared (still a very small touch firm), the other ingredients (mussel, clams, squid, bean sprouts and other veggies) much the same, if anything, a touch undercooked - the sauce so flavourful and tasty, and used perfectly, adequately flavouring the ingredients, but not drowning them, as we’ve often experienced elsewhere.  This was such a fine dish, a major ‘yum’, and so well-enjoyed. 

Overall, we experienced some very tasty food and good service, in a pleasant ambiance - we sure enjoyed our dinner dining experience at Mega Sushi.