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Sansei Seafood Restaurant & Sushi Bar

600 Office Rd. (Hwy. 30) Send to Phone
KapaluaMaui HI 96761
808-669-6286 | Menu
sanseihawaii.com
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Youthful, fun, contemporary Japanese. Sansei Seafood Restaurant & Sushi Bar is one of GAYOT's 2013 | Top 10 Hawaii Sushi Restaurants |

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: Forget any preconceived notions about Sansei being just a traditional Japanese restaurant. The phone number is 808-669-OCTO, as in octopus. The slogan? Home of the other red meat: ahi. We like the seared Sonoma Valley foie gras nigiri sushi with caramelized Kula onions and unagi demi-glace. You also will find Japanese BLT sushi with crisp salmon skin and tomato, Asian rock shrimp over ginger-lime chili butter with cilantro pesto and panko-crusted ahi sashimi over soy-wasabi butter. Put these on the table, and customers yell and shout with joy. In fact, owner D.K. Kodama's cutting-edge cuisine and upbeat ambience make it planets apart from other Japanese restaurants here. It's youthful and alive, contemporary and fun. This is the perfect place to graze on a number of appetizers, such as half lobster tail stuffed with spicy crab and masago and slow-roasted, black-tea duck with orange-ginger-soy vinaigrette (yin) and Cabernet demi-glace (yang). If karaoke is your cup of tea, Sansei offers the laser variety on Thursday and Friday nights from 10 p.m. to closing.

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