There's This Japanese Restaurant You Should Try ...

There is a Japanese restaurant in Gubei so clean you wear socks to the bathroom. So popular they have three branches with 300 seats each and you still have to reserve. So goddamn good at service that the waitress can tell you the biological variety of sea urchin on the menu. So delicious that it passed my test by a gauntlet of chefs and semi-professional eating people. 

Sasano

It is disingenuous to pretend Sasano is a hidden secret, one of those mind-blowing Japanese bolt holes we all know exist but don’t know how to find. Just one of Sasano’s locations has 25,000 — twenty five THOUSAND — pictures from customers on its Dianping page. Bringing it to you here is sort of like introducing a FOB Japanese person to Element Fresh, and telling them you’ve got this great Western restaurant they probably have never heard of but really need to check out, though I promise Sasano is much better than Element Fresh (and that’s not a dig at EF). 

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