Valentines Dinner at Hiro Sushi

Hiro Sushi

3655 N 129th St

www.hirosushiomaha.com

Being the procrastinator I am, of course I waited till the afternoon of Valentines Day to try to make dinner reservations for somewhere nice. After checking into about a dozen places, and thinking we were going to be spending another Valentines night at Zio's, I managed to get us reservations at Hiro Sushi. It was truly the luck of the draw that we ended up there. After dinner we felt that our lucky draw could not have gone better.

We arrived a little early for our reservation, but were seated instantly. There was a little confusion as to who our server was when we first got there as we had two different people take our drink and appetizer order (but I'd rather have too many people waiting on me than not enough). Once that was cleared up the service was fantastic and they delivered out food in waves, which I love because I like to enjoy each dish individually. 

First out was our order of Edamame (cooked and salted soy beans in pods). They were delectable! I swear they could replace my favorite salty snack, pop corn. The beans them self have a great flavor, and I love the sea salt on the pod that you taste while sucking out that delicious little bean.  I could have eaten a giant bowl of them.

Next was the Miso soup, then an order of Yakitori (Japanese style kabobs with chicken marinated with Teriyaki sauce).  These two items I order pretty much any time I can get them, and seem to be pretty good no matter where you go. Hiro was no exception.

Then came our platter of sushi. We'd been watching boats filled with sushi leave the counter all night, and by comparison our platter was tiny. Although, we could hardly finish what we did order, so I think we did pretty good. Our sushi order consisted of the conch nigiri, seared tuna sashimi, a "husker" roll (tempura beef tenderloin, asparagus, cream cheese, eel sauce) and a "Wasabi Stinger" roll (tempura shrimp, cream cheese, jalapeno, cucumber, outside: shredded crab topped with wasabi cream sauce, eel sauce). All of our sushi was amazing. If fact at the time I think I described it as "fantastically delicious". 

This was the first time I had tried sushi other than in roll from (other than seared tuna, which is another item I will order any time I see it on a menu... because it's awesome!). I enjoyed the conch more than I thought I would, since it was just the conch and rice. I was surprised how un-fishy it tasted and it wasn't nearly as chewy as I had expected (it had a texture close to a firm mushroom). Also, the sushi we did have in roll form was outstanding. Both rolls were delicious, however I liked the husker roll a bit more, mostly because I could fit the whole thing in my mouth. The wasabi stinger was HUGE, in fact we cut in in half and could still barely fit the pieces in our mouths, plus the crab meat on the outside made it slippery and a little messy. The tempura beef in the husker roll also had a great little crunch to it, which gave it more texture and made it really interesting to eat.

So, that was our dinner, and it was really a fantastic evening. Even tonight (3 nights later), we had an in depth conversation about how amazing our dinner was and considered having sushi again tonight. We left Hiro stuffed and completely satisfied. We can't wait to go back! 

**I'm sorry I didn't get any pictures of our food. The light was a little dim and I hate drawing attention to myself by taking pictures with a flash.**