Seki's: looks like Japan, tastes like Missouri

For someone who doesn't like raw fish, I sure do eat a lot of sushi. This time, Jake, Dave, and I headed to Seki's on the loop to celebrate Jake's recent acquisition of a job (yayyy!).

Ever since watching The Ramen Girl (bad movie, don't do it. My excuse is that I watched it on a plane), I've been hyper-curious about ramen. The only ramen I've ever eaten is out of a package, and one day I hope to eat the real deal. Seki's version is supposed to be the real deal, but sadly it is not.

It tasted to me like nothing special. There was 1 piece of pork, and 1 piece of seaweed. The broth was super salty, and other than that kind of bland. Guess I will have to wait to visit a bigger city (or just fly to Japan!) to eat some real ramen!

The ramen came with a couple of gyoza and fried chicken pieces. Both were pretty standard, nothing special. Wasabi's gyoza is a hundred times better.

It sure is gorgeously crispy though.

Jake ordered the sushi appetizer and the Loop roll:

Evidence of raw fish in the above picture. Therefore, I did not try. But Seki's gets points for the way this roll looked - so colorful! And the tamago in the sushi appetizer was pretty delish.

I went with my go-to roll: eel and avocado.

There is a TON of eel in this roll, which is awesome, since I hate it when restaurants skimp on my precious eel. Seki's makes their rolls a little too big, though. I prefer them smaller so that I can just pop 'em in my mouth. The sushi rice (a large part of how I judge sushi places!) was also not as fresh as Wasabi's.

Here's Dave's tempura udon. I didn't try it, but it looks pretty solid.

All in all, I would skip Seki's if you're looking for great sushi. Jake would disagree - he prefers Seki's, though he might admit it's only because Seki's authentic atmosphere makes him feel more like he's in Japan.

And Seki's has something Wasabi doesn't have: pictures of adorable babies on the wall!

O.m.g. I could really eat these babies. Greeshma could, too.

Seki's Japanese Restaurant
6335 Delmar Boulevard
St Louis, MO 63130
314.726.6477