Ryuu Sushi Express

Well this is interesting! It appears that the Parking Lot Of Glorious Fish Tacos and Jamaican Food has added a new resident: a sushi truck «with a Latin touch.» Feeling skeptical of food cart sushi? In this case, there’s nothing to worry about: none of the rolls feature raw fish. What they do feature is creative methods like battering and deep frying entire rolls, fun ingredients like bacon, chipotle mayo, and strawberries, and free Shasta sodas with your meal (including the venerable Grape). As an added benefit, the seemingly-​high prices for each roll are earned with rolls that are approximately twice the size of anything you’d normally see in a sushi restaurant.
At the recommendation of the chefs, my girlfriend and I tried two rolls, the Flying Pig ($ 8.99) and the Ryuu Roll ($ 9.99). The Flying Pig was filled with chicken, bacon, cream cheese, and avocado. The entire roll was deep-​fried and served with a chipotle mayonnaise. The Ryuu Roll was stuffed with fake crab and cream cheese, then deep fried and (allegedly) topped with more fake crab, chipotle mayo, scallops, eel sauce, and red beets. To be honest, I was only able to detect the fake crab and chipotle mayo, but maybe the other stuff was hidden (?) — in any case, I wasn’t looking that hard.
The verdict? To be honest, I’d say the results were a bit more fun and entertaining than delicious. We felt that cream cheese-​filled, deep-​fried sushi is a bit more of a novelty than a regular food option, and that we probably wouldn’t replace a real sushi dinner with a Ryuu lunch if faced with the choice. But for a one-​time chance to try something new and interesting, Ryuu was just about perfect. If you’d be intrigued to see what a Mexican-​style sushi roll tastes like, then I’d say this cart is worth at least one trip. If you hate it, you can always go to one of the other fantastic food carts on the lot!