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.