After seeing all of the great reviews my boyfriend and I decided to try Akari Express instead of going to Kanki. We placed our order through Raleigh TakeOut and were pleased with the good prices (especially compared to Kanki). The food arrived and didn't look great but I figured it would taste great based on the amazing reviews. I don't know what restaurant those people ate at, but it couldn't have been Akari.
We ordered a feast: teppenyaki, vegetable tempura, house salad and seaweed salad. The seaweed salad didn't have the crunch that it does in better restaurants. The japanese house salad was ""eh"" and the ginger sauce is just ok. Oh yeah, and there was a long black hair in my seaweed salad - I kid you not.
The tempura was soggy and I could tell it wasn't just because it was takeout - it was still warm but very soggy and the rice wasn't the quality of Kanki's.
The teppenyaki was also just ok, nothing like Kanki's perfectly cooked meats.
Overall I was very disappointed because I was expecting it to be a new favorite and I will definitely never get it again. Sad.
I will gladly pay to go to Kanki and have a little onion volcano made for me because the food is SO MUCH better.
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