The store has three main activities:

1) travel food, ideal for grabbing and bringing as gifts (local smoked salmon, maple syrup, maple sugar, maple caramels, etc.)

2) Local Japanese-style seafood products (everything from large whole halibut to individual portions of black cod fillets to sashimi, etc.)

3) A mail order intended to deliver the above two items to Japan. They are set up to be delivered directly through a shipping partner in Japan. They even include instructions in Japanese on how to prepare each seafood product.

For what it’s worth, the shipping price to Japan is extremely high, so I wouldn’t consider product #3. But in fact, they will pack the items for you, ready to ship, with proper refrigeration, etc. so you can check them in as luggage when you travel to Japan – great!

To try their products, we chose two items:

• Cod fillets (at a very reasonable price of 88 cents/lb!). They were frozen in the sea, and after defrosting they tasted very fresh. Ridiculously inexpensive too!
• Smoked bincho tataki. We got a decent sized loin (enough for about 12 generous slices) for about $4.50. It was packaged in a clear vacuum wrap. They lightly smoke the sashimi and then lightly fry the outside. The combination of light smoke and frying created a very unique tataki when we sliced it at home (sorry for the poor knife skills!).