SushiWay — the Japanese restaurant of ocean waves

Japanese restaurant · District 3 · 6A Phạm Ngọc Thạch

SushiWay needs no long telling: past the glass door with its white noren is one ocean-wave motif throughout — navy seigaiha noren across the ceiling beams, wave-shaped LED coves along both walls, teal-rimmed round mirrors like a ship's portholes. In the middle of that long bright hall, the dish most remembered is the 9-compartment wooden box served billowing with dry ice at the table.

The restaurant sits at 6A Phạm Ngọc Thạch, Xuân Hòa ward, District 3, in a single long, narrow dining hall. The storefront is a full-width glass sliding door with a white noren printed with blue Japanese characters, with potted orchids and plants on the exterior ledge. Inside, two rows of light-wood tables run the length of the hall, set with white round plates, small white soy dishes, chopsticks and white ceramic teapots, and medium-tone molded-plywood curved-back chairs.

Light is what sets the room apart: by day, daylight floods through the glass storefront; warm-white LED coves run the length of both walls in a wave pattern, with black spotlights in the wood-slat lattice ceiling. Warm cream plaster walls, a light glossy tile floor, small potted cone topiaries on the floor by the tables, wave-shaped niches with florals — pink blossoms and red berry branches. The hall is bright, airy and warm — never moody.

The recorded menu centres on sashimi and sushi: mixed sashimi, salmon sashimi, nigiri, shrimp / crab nigiri, aburi sushi topped with fish roe, sushi rolls and the smoking 9-compartment sushi box — plus chawanmushi, soba on ice, tempura, gyoza, oysters, crab pasta and salad with sliced fish. All of it is unpriced — ask at the restaurant. The house logo is an orange enso circle with navy kanji lettering.

A nigiri menu page — the orange enso-circle logo with navy kanji lettering

The storefront

The glass door and the white noren

A full-width glass sliding door, a white noren printed with blue Japanese characters above it, potted orchids and plants on the exterior ledge — that is how to spot the restaurant from the street.

The hall

Seigaiha waves, portholes, a slat ceiling

Navy seigaiha wave noren across the ceiling beams, wave-shaped LED coves along both walls, teal-rimmed round mirrors, a wood-slat ceiling with black spotlights — a single shared hall with two long rows of tables.

Ordering

Ask at the restaurant — all unpriced

The recorded menu lists 14 composition-described items, all unpriced — ask at the restaurant when you arrive rather than guessing a price. The first dish to try is the smoking 9-compartment sushi box served tableside.