I love Japanese food. I love the freshness of everything. Japanese food isn't all about sushi and sashimi. Kulu Kulu operates a conveyor belt sushi restaurant in, Soho, Covent Garden and South Kensington. You simply pay for each plate you take off the conveyor belt, there are 5 different plates at different prices. Do keep an eye out if you're worried about costing, as you could easily get carried away picking plates off the belt. This is a good place to take someone that is a sushi virgin so that they can see the food on offer. And we do eat with our eyes as well! Here's a few of my favourite treats they have on offer, OK I know I haven't added many sushi or sashimi items but here goes.... Sweet tail prawn nigiri, out of all sushi "toppings" on offer, my favourite have got to be either sweet tail prawn because it is slightly meaty but sweet or toro because you have to eat this fish extremely fresh or you can definitely taste the difference, and because it is meaty, slightly salty tasting of the sea with a hint of sweetness because it is so fresh.
"Tempura hand roll" featuring a tempura prawn, strip of salmon sashimi, and a slice of avocado, with sushi rice, mayo, wrapped in nori. This gives you a the best of both; cooked and raw food. The crispy tempura prawn gives you great texture against the soft velvety salmon and soft avocado.
"Soft shell crab hand roll" featuring tempura soft shell crab, sushi rice, mayo, sesame seeds wrapped in nori. The soft shell crab is crispy on the outside with soft crab on the inside.
Hand rolls are a fun way to introduce sushi. I think it's a good way of introducing sushi to children, obviously not raw fish if they're really young. But kids love eating with their hands so a hand roll would be ideal. I think even as we grow up, as adults we enjoy eating with out hands.
"Ebi fry with potato salad". Crunchy breadcrumbed prawns, need I say more? if you love prawns and you love deep fried food. Yum!! The potatoes in the potato salad is mashed, with pieces of carrot, cucumber and onion to give it an interesting twist, with creamy mayo. Its such an interesting and different take on potato salad
Chawanmushi; which is a steamed savoury egg custard. It can have prawns, kamaboko steamed fish cake, shiitake mushroom, spring onion. This chawanmushi comes with spinach on top, with little cuts of chicken and fish cake. You may have to wait around 15 mins as it is not as popular as some of the other items on offer so you may have to order it when you sit down, but its well worth the wait. It's a great little treat as it warms you up when there's snow outside like there is now. 
Last, but definitely not least, my favourite item on offer from Kulu Kulu..... Their tori kara age, or how I like to call them, chicken nuggets. I think they're absolutely amazing!! The chicken has been marinaded in a mix of soy sauce, garlic, ginger then fried. The outside is crunchy, but the inside is juicy soft chicken. They're the best chicken nuggets I've tasted in London. I love their chicken nuggets. If I haven't had them in a while I start getting withdrawal symptoms and really start missing them. I think they would be as part of my last meal request. Even now as I'm writing this, staring at its picture, brings me memories of its taste, texture and smell. It's making me salivate over the picture and have a real Homer Simpson moment mmmmmmm*drool*
If anyone thinks somewhere else offers tori kara age better than this let me know, would like to be enlightened!
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