Miyako - Garden Grove

Food was very good, quite a pleasant surprise in my neighborhood.Food: 4/5

Pretty good Japanese restaurant. It's seems to be a popular family neighborhood restaurant located in a shopping mall. Quality of the food is above average and quantity is also above average. Fairly priced for what you get. I probably would come back here but it's a bit of a drive for me coming from Irvine.

I’ve only eaten here once and I don’t think I’ll be coming back. The only reason I didn’t give 1 star is because the service was good and it was a pleasant little spot. That said, that was the worst sushi I’ve ever had, and I’ve tried a LOT of different sushi restaurants. I ordered the scallop roll and the miyako roll because it looked and sounded delicious but it was SO bad. The rice was both undercooked and mushy (I mean, how? Every time I picked up a roll with my chopsticks, it fell apart. The tuna(? that topped the roll was dry and had the taste/consistency of ground turkey, but worst of all, the salmon was grey! I was very disappointed with the food, even more so because those two rolls alone cost me over $30.

Perhaps when my friend and I went for lunch here, it was an off-day for the restaurant. We went on a Friday around 3pm, so it was just the two of us in the restaurant. The two special roll items we wanted to order, 'the calapop roll ' and the 'super crab crunch roll ' was not available. Our server suggested other rolls that were close to those we wanted, but it did not taste good. The taste and texture of the rolls were disappointing. It was a weird mesh of flavors that didn 't go well together. And the 'beef yaki soba ' was also disappointing. I don 't know if there 's a curry flavor with the noodles and I don 't know if that 's common? The miso soup was okay. But I can 't recommend this place, and it left a bad taste (pun totally intended) for us, so I don 't think we would even return to try this place again. The food was overall, so disappointing.

I went to Miyako with my friend that was born and raised in Japan. She said that the food at Miyako is not authentic Japanese food, and that she ate very differently while she was growing up in Japan. So apparently the Japanese food at Miyako is very Americanized. I'm not Japanese and I've never been to Japan. Maybe that's why I loved the food at Miyako since they adjusted their food for the American palate. My Japanese friend told me that in Japan they have no California Roll or Chapman Roll but they have both at Miyako. I had the California Roll, the Dragon Roll and the egg rolls, all of which were very tasty. The staff was very friendly and helpful. I've have to remember to try the Chapman Roll the next time I eat here : .