Kishu Island

Kishu Island
(Broadway & Main St, Vancouver)
About 12$ if you choose the right items for dinner

This is my ideal choice for a japanese dinner, being the broke deadbeat I am. There are actually two locations, the other being downtown Vancouver on a street close to and parallel to Granville St.

Both restaurants offer a very authentic experiene, more so than TopGun. Additionally, after 7pm several items on the menu go 40% off. These entrees include tempura, yakisoba, udon, donburi, and california rolls. Yum yum!

TopGun Sushi

TopGun Sushi
(New Westminster Quay, New Westminster-5 min walk from New West Skytrain Station)
12$ for lunch, 30$ for dinner

This is a beautiful japanese restaurant. It is a chain, but I have only eaten at the all-you-can-eat option in New Westminster.

There is a small salad buffet, and a decent menu that you order from. There is salmon and tuna sushi available wrapped in rolls, or for 3$ more for everyone at the table people can order sashimi. Personall I just order the sushi (raw fish on top of a rice ball), and don't eat the rice ball.

Items from the lunch menu include veggie tempura, calamari, udon soup, california & alaska rolls, and a house roll filled with salmon & tuna. I've only eaten the dinner menu twice, and do not believe it's worth the double-price, although there are more options to choose from.

All the staff have an authentic japanese ethnicity (no round eyes here), and type your order into their wireless palm pilots which are immediately seen by the cooks in the back. I'd recommend ordering a variety of types of food immediately, hedging your bets against any backlogs in the kitchen.

Uncle Fatih's Pizza

Uncle Fatih's Pizza

(Broadway & Commercial)

1.5$/slice, 12.5$/8 slices

Uncle Fatih's is not to be laughed at. Great deal for a slice of pizza-there's always at least 4 different types of pizza to chose from under the heat lamp at any time. He makes about 20 different types of pizzas, and varies them frequently. The place is just across from the skytrain station-it gives off an aura of sketchiness, but after you've been there a few times at night, you realize nothing's going to happen. There's a decent police presence at Broadway & Commercial. Uncle Fatih's is open super late (I've never droven by it when it was closed).

One pet peeve though-the guy is a bit of a cheap fuck. If you do the math for the cost of the 8 slice deal, you realize he's charging you extra for the box. Minimum purchase on debit is 5$, and visa is 9$.

MegaBite Pizza

MegaBite Pizza

(Broadway & Commercial...)

1.5$/slice

This is a chain of pizza by-the-slice joints across the Lower Mainland. Being that, it doesn't have the mythology that follows Uncle Fatihs, which ironically is across the street from Megabite. The Broadway location has the ideal spot, as it's impossible to transfer skytrains without walking by it. However, they cheap out on toppings. I choose the guy who cheaps out on boxes, rather than one who cheaps out on toppings.