Everyone has a touchstone for the "Japanese-ness" of a Japanese restaurant. The one that works for me is, when they bring out the tempura, is there a little mound of grated radish, orosidaikon, there for you to stir into the bowl of sauce?
Well, WASABI fails that test. No daikon. And indeed the front-of-house personnel are Chinese-Canadian, the old copies...
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