It didn’t take long to realize we had been missing out on more than a few things unique.
The Korean and Japanese restaurant and sushi bar Mae Brown and Yi Ho Suk opened in mid-2009 boasts that it has "33 Unique Rolls."
And there are definitely items you don’t find on other local menus.
With ingredients that range from spicy mayo to lemonade sauce to hot Mexican sauce, the speciality rolls are far from traditional.
Kabuki waitress Myria Click described them as “gourmet fusion” during my phone conversation with her.
During our visit, we tried the Ninja Roll — calamari, spicy tuna, avocado, and cream cheese deep fried with a special chef sauce — the Playboy Roll — shrimp tempura, spicy tuna, and asparagus topped with cooked shrimp, fuikake with a sweet glaze sauce then barbecued — and the truly showy Fire Roll — spicy crunch crab, avocado, shrimp tempura topped with scallops, a spicy sauce.
Each is regularly $12.95.
The Fire Roll comes wrapped in foil set ablaze at your table.
The visual effect is very dramatic.
Of the three we tried, we favored the complicated Ninja Roll by far. A bite was like marital arts training for your taste buds.
The business has a variety of Nigiri and roe as well as more familiar sushi rolls — California, spice tuna, etc.
There are several Korean noodle, beef and rice dishes and has teriyaki, tempura and curry options too.
Details:
848 South Main St., Centerville
(937) 435-9500
Sunday to Thursday — 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Friday and Saturday — 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
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