Exploring AZUMA Japanese & Sushi Bar in Troutman NC #SushiLovers #FoodAdventure

Taking my lady to a brand new restaurant in my hometown. They were trying Azuma Japanese Restaurant Sushi and Bar. We're in Troutman, North Carolina, and today we're going to try it out. Are you ready now, darling? I'm constantly waiting on Josie all the time. You know it's all you. And ladies first. See, I'm a gentleman, okay? Yes, sir. Oh, they have a blossom tree. Look at this place. It's actually so nice. It's like so cute. I love it. There goes these little tables. We get the backboard. Thank you. What are your first thoughts of this restaurant and the entrance? It's nice. She greeted us really nicely. They have ramen. Okay, okay. Got a lot of sushi options. Yeah. I'm gonna go ahead and show y'all the menu real quick. This is what they got going on if you want to check it out. And then I'll flip it on the back. And then once again, just heaps and heaps of menu options, which is crazy. For any restaurant to maintain high quality with this many items is It's just awesome, which we're going to find out how good it is. So we'll see. Oh, look, $3.99 for the miso soup if we wanted to get it. They have actually affordable appetizers. Wow. Look at the cost of the appetizers. Ooh, fried calamari. Yes, sir. You want edamame? Mom and a man and a man. Spicy. Look, spicy edamame. Can we get something other than edamame? Okay. Okay. Why do you always get to choose? Thank you. How are you? Do you have pink lemonade? Do you have diet Sprite? That's regular. Okay, I'll take regular Sprite please. And then can we go ahead and get an appetizer? Can we get spicy calamari? No, what? Is that what you wanted? Oh, no, no, no, no. Edamame. Yes. I blanked there. I don't know if he liked us. He had to like give me an order and leave. It's probably been a long day. Ooh, Josie, what is udon? Stir fry thick buckwheat. What is buckwheat noodles? This is going to be confusing to me. Bento. I take the bento. All right, I'm definitely going to go with one of the combination specials. They are a little pricey. The other versions are like $13 and $16, but I don't just want one item. I want like multiple. You know what I'm saying? Do you know what you're getting? Yeah. What? Sushi? I reckon. I can't tell what's raw and what's not. Oh, yeah. I don't want to jinx it. Thank you. I don't think he likes meat. Let me be honest. Because you have to diet necessarily. Well, I don't. It's too much sugar. I've already had three Sprites today. That is a good carbonated drink. I'm doing the hibachi, but I want it teriyaki style. And I think I'm just going to do chicken and shrimp. Thank you. Thank you. Do you know what you like? Yes. Thank you, sir. Can I do the teriyaki salad, but I want to, can I add two things? Is it okay? Right here. Okay. Can I get the chicken and steak, please? And then I'll do broccoli and then the shrimp sauce that's on the side, right? Okay, that's it for me. yeah please medium. okay thank you so much. is it spicy? all right here goes their edamame. i mean this is the first time we got edamame that looks you know souped up. i actually like that. That might be the best flavored edamame I've had going anywhere else. These are very spicy though. Yeah. Very saucy, I like it. The sauce stays on it. Yeah, these are really good edamame. Yeah dude, we are almost finished with this. Me and Josie are big edamame fans. Like we go to the house and we cook it up all the time. This is probably the best edamame I've ever had. The sauce that they have on their sticks really well. It's not just salt and pepper. Really good edamame. If you like it, this is the place. Every single table in this place is now full. This is a fizzy, fizzy restaurant. Thank you. Did we order that? I guess it comes with the soup and it comes with the salad. Go ahead and try it out. They do look like water, but it's probably... I think it's miso soup. Thank you. That's hot, dude. Dang, I blew it for a while today. Well, I ain't gonna taste the food now. That is liquid lava right there. Is Justin good on the salad? You don't like it? oh it does taste decent thank you so much thank you here goes my steak and chicken hibachi teriyaki style dude that's a fair amount of food right there that's not bad at all and then here goes josie's soup over here which looks really good good i like it awesome see over here robin my fork here we go chicken looks good oh so much flavor wow and it dissolves in your mouth the cook is doing really good back there let's go ahead and try josie's soup wow that's got a little heat to it i think my only critique on the food would be this is more like a broth less like a thing that sticks to the food you know what i mean it's really good but it just doesn't stick well so you're just you're drinking the teriyaki more than you are enjoying it with the meat that you have it has good flavor i just wish it was a little thicker overall experience coming here to this restaurant today and i got the check right here i'm gonna be honest i the food really good i like the food i think my sauce could have been a little different it was teriyaki style but the food tasted really really good did you like your food yes a lot really good food the service i guess if you're You know, the whole deal altogether, you really kind of felt like you're like, here's this, here's that buy. Like, that was pretty much. But they were really busy. They were very busy. But then again, the other guy was busy, and he comes out with a smile, and he's happy. I don't know. Everyone's different. Everybody's different. Regardless, overall experience here, will I come back? Yes. Total price that we paid for all the food that we got was $52, plus we did leave a tip. Azuma in Troutman, North Carolina, brand new restaurant, overall rating, I'm going to go 9 out of 10. Food was really good. Little discrepancies with other things, but not bad.