Mabui means soul or spirit in the Okinawan dialect. This restaurant has a lunch, dinner, drink and sushi menu. The dinner menu has Mabui specialties, salads, vegetables, chicken, pork, beef and seafood offerings. The sushi menu is divided into rolls, nigiri sushis and sashimis. The more popular rolls include: mabui roll (chili, salmon, kaiware, green onion and cucumber), and spider roll (soft shell crab, lettuce, kaiware, cucumber, masago and avocado). Nigiri sushis include uni (sea urchin), amaebi (spot prawn) and taro (octopus).
Mabui Sushi-Izakaya
8-2070 Harvey Avenue
Kelowna, BC
V1Y 8P8 Canada
250-868-8852
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Tsunami is a small restaurant that prides itself for using the freshest ingredients, including freshly caught seafood and crisp vegetables. Japanese and American-style tables are available. The menu has 26 different kinds of sushi, including California, Philadelphia and B.C. rolls; salmon, spicy salmon, tuna and scallop rolls; and chicken and vegetable rolls. It also offers a sushi boat, which is a boat-like container that acts as a plate for different sushis and sashimis put together. The restaurant also offers other types of Japanese food, such as tempuras, teriyakis and udons. It is open Mondays to Saturdays and holidays from 4:30 p.m. with dine-in, take-out and delivery options.
Tsunami Japanese Restaurant
123-1940 Kane Rd., Glen Park Village
Kelowna, BC
V1V 2J9 Canada
250-762-9818
tsunamisushikelowna.com
Edo is in Westbank, which is located across Lake Okanagan from Kelowna, about five miles and 10 minutes away. While its specialty is its teriyaki chicken, it offers many other types of Japanese dishes, including sukiyaki beef, shrimp teriyaki, and beef yakisoba. They also have bento boxes, combo meals, udon soups and side orders. Its menu has two pages of sushi, with an offering of a combination platter for one and another for two persons, and listings of nigiri and maki sushi. A top seller is the edo roll, which is a combination of crabs, tuna, shrimp, cucumber, avocado and fish, all rolled into one.
Edo Japan
#100, 2127 Louie Drive
Westbank, BC
V4T 1Y2 Canada
778-754-5536
edojapanwestbank.com