Genki Sushi

A year ago, Genki Sushi opened at Junction 8 and it was the only eatery P and I regularly visit at least once every few weeks. There were long queues when it first opened, and a year later, the queues are still around, unlike many other shops which had long queues only when it first opened. I've seen the queues at the take outlet and it was just as long. It's not the cheapest sushi place around but we really loved the food, and P started eating Japanese food and sushi after we got kind of addicted to it. Most of the times he is the one having the craving for it.

The cute train that delivered our food

After my long run last night, it was 9pm when I got home and P had this sushi craving. Sometimes, we do takeouts from the restaurant but it is still better to eat the food hot, plus the takeout dinner also involves a lot of plastic containers so I prefer to eat-in. I was tired, sweaty and hot last night but I agreed to it. However, it would be a bit of a rush as the last order is at 9.30pm so we decided to just go for it on Sunday evening. To beat the long queue, we sometimes get to the restaurant early at 6pm or much much later at 9pm so that we can get seats almost immediately, or the other way is to do takeouts.

The long queues that are always there from 6pm till at least 8++

I finished my tuition this evening at 7pm and I was hungry even before the session started, so I asked P to meet me there around 7.30pm, I couldnt wait till 9pm to eat as that will be too late. We started queueing around 7.40pm and only got a seat at 8.20pm, that was how long the queue was, but it was not the longest we had waited. We were lucky to get a nice booth seat, even though we were all mentally prepared to just go for the next available counter seat.

Not so family and big group friendly seating

What set Genki apart from the other restaurants is the using of cute sushi trains to deliver the orders, there are also no servers to take our orders. Last year they had iPads at every table or station which we used to order the food, and this year they just gave us QR code to scan with our phones and we can order using our own mobile phones. How cool is that? We observed that most of the patrons are young couples and younger groups of people, we do see families with kids and old people but those are rare. The restaurant seating is not cool for groups and families as there are only ten booths and about thirty bar counter seats.

Takeout to Junction 8 playground opened area

There were a few times we did takeouts and ate the food at the open area in Junction 8 (one with a playground and groups of students). We did that once when we were going to catch a movie and did not have time to queue and on another occasion, we were just too hungry to wait till we get home to eat.