Sushi Oyama

Sushi Oyama is amazing! The location is beautiful in an old heritage home and the sushi is super fresh and delicious. It is on the more expensive side, but you’re paying for good quality and big portions. The Maki Tray is the best bang for your buck, as pictured here you get so much food for a great price for two people! Highly recommend coming here!

I've loved Oyama for a long time, but tonight I was utterly disappointed. Their standard of food quality has gone down hill over the past couple years. Sadly, after ordering take out, I had to throw most of it out. That was a waste of over priced sushi. The tempura prawns did not taste right, mealy, the shrimp was grey under the batter, not to say it was undercooked, but maybe the shrimp was over cooked or just started to go bad. The quality of the sound trap roll too was disgusting.

I don’t like wasting my time for posting bad reviews but this time is not the case. Food was not that bad. But customer service was terrible. Be aware that this restaurant serves chicken karaage with bone which is still fine even though I haven’t seen boned karaage from other japanese restaurant. (Oyama Shusi’s menu didn’t mention they serve boned karaage) Also, the karaage was rather like fast food store wings. They were dry and hard. We casually mentioned chicken karaage with bone was not what we expected when waitress came to us and asked if everything is ok. She explained she has worked for so many different sushi restaurants in Surrey, Langley and they used to have boned karaage. I felt like waitress used condescending tone on us implying herself is right and customers are wrong. (So, I guess my experience from so many different sushi restaurants’ boneless juicy karaage is nothing) The worst part at this restaurant was when we were paying for the bill. We mentioned if we were the only cutomers so far having problem with quality of karaage and the same waitress said YES. After payment when we mentioned there is a review about karaage’s quality from other on Google, waitress didn’t let us finish our sentence and responded by yelling “YEAH YEAH OK OK YEAH YEAH” without even looking at us and started helping other customers. It would be the WORST EXPERIENCE EVER. This restaurant really should improve their customer service. I regret tipping this horrible restaurant. My day was totally ruined. I will never ever go back to this place. If you are gonna try this place, I recommend you getting yourself ready to be yelled just because you talk about the food and its quality.

We enjoyed our dinner and sake very much. The food is good, the building is a lovely old converted mansion with beautiful stained glass details as while the service is fairly attentive. I was happily surprised at the size of my BC roll. It's HUGE, fresh and yummy. Yaki Soba and Yaki Udon dishes were flavourful. Chicken teriyaki on rice was cooked well, gyoza and tempura prawns were fresh and hot. There are some menu items for someone needing gluten-free dishes which was great. The building isn't accessible for those with mobility issues. There are no ramps, lots of steep steps to walk up and no elevator that we could find. The meals main meals didn't come out at the same time so some we're almost finished before others had started.