The Rice Fusion Restaurant Review:
1158 S State St
1158 S State St
Salt Lake City UT
Located in downtown Salt Lake City, The Rice Fusion Asian Cuisine is among the new Asian-themed restaurants that have popped up all over Utah within the last two years. Let's see how this one rated...
The interior and overall atmosphere was nice, very spacious, with elegant interior design. Then we saw the menu. Wow. They had a little bit of every Asian fare, from coconut curry to sushi. In order to get as much variety as possible, we ordered a dish from different regions.
Here are our appetizers--Croquettes (Japanese) and Summer Roll (Vietnamese). The Summer roll was delicious, with shredd lettuce, cilantro, vermicelli and char siu pork in see-through rice wraps. The sauce was a bit too sweet, but overall was very good.
The croquettes on the other hand....
Notice the orange color on the breading. Notice the almost eery uniformity of the croquettes. Had they handmade their croquettes, they would never turn out like perfect clones of each other. These are most definitely once-frozen products, purchased then reheated. It didn't taste very good either--the potatoes were gummy, and the breading was somehow chewy, almost like mochi. And didn't even taste like potatoes.
Our next dish was Orange Soy Chicken (Chinese). They had a great selection of vegetarian dishes. Despite the fact that this "chicken" was soy-based, it actually tasted very good, with crispy exterior and tender interior. The only drawback was the orange sauce was too sweet and not at all spicy as the menu claimed it to be.
Our sushi was a hard disappointment. In this picture, from left: Citrus Roll (California roll with a slice of salmon and lemon on top), Spider Roll (deep-fried soft-shell crab), Xanax Roll (with cooked albacore tuna, fried crab, and asparagus, all deep-fried in tempura batter). The best one out of all of them was the Citrus Roll. The others, sadly, tasted very bland for the amount of ingredients it had. Everything sort of melded together in to some mushy shtuff and I couldn't taste each ingredients. And the sushi rice was terrible. It was dry and lacked the vinegar taste, which is critical to sushi.
Now for the dessert....their dessert menu was impressive for an Asian restaurant. We ordered White Passion (white chocolate and passionfruit mousse with pistachio genoise and white chocolate piece on top) and Pyramid Noisette (chocolate ganache, hazelnut mousseline, in marbled chocolate shell).
OMGoodness. They were heavenly. Rich yet light, they weren't cloyingly sweet, and the texture of the mousse was so smooth and velvety...
...but it turns out that they purchase their desserts from a pastry shop in California.
...All in all, it was pretty disappointing. Sushi was less than average, and the dishes mediocre. I would come back here only for the desserts and great service.
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