Yu-Yu

Came in for lunch. Service was good food was good I wasn’t wowed by anything here. But I would probably be back. We ordered sashimi lunch & the 10pc kashiage chefs choice.

This. Place. Rocks!!! What a gem in Chinatown. Again, I realized this was legit when I was the ONLY non-​Japanese person in the place.
The fresh food was prepared with care.
I came for lunch and had the jumbo prawn combination platter. HUGE prawns, fresh salad, delish soup. The service was also fast and waitress was lovely. Amazing experience!
Dinner was a bit different. Less people, but service was super slow. Still nice, but took much longer for my food. I ordered a tempura bowl and a salmon/​avocado roll. The food was amazing again.
The longer service/​music dropped it from 5 stars.
Price– much less than the strip, but better quality
Atmosphere — clean, modern and cozy. However, the profane music at dinner was very off-​putting (all sorts of f*cks, n**gas, bitches, shits etc…)

One of my favorite Japanese restaurant… when I crave for Japanese dishes I always come here. I have eaten here at least once a week for about a little over a year now. They are always consistent and the foods are delicious. Now they add beer and wine on the menu. I enjoy every dishes I have ordered here so far. Lunch items serve until 3:30. Very good deal. Try them out! Close by the strip…

I come here every week. Sashimi is very fresh and fried food is very tasty. I hope they can provide more set dinner choices

Stopped by here with visit from out of state. Although I can’t comment too much on the food since I was a bit ill, the tonjiru soup I had was delicious and my company also enjoyed their dishes. The service we received was great and I will have to come back to try this place some more.

Ichiza 2.0.
Everything here is consistently good, including service. Beef tongue, kushiage, soups, katsu, all great. This is my new spot!

Really really good sushi spot in the middle of LV Chinatown.
Carefully prepared food and sushi. Sashimi super fresh and rolls good. Good value. Hand rolls 5 for $ 15.
Better than places on the strip

Taste good and spend little! Just near the 99 ranch market. Easy to find. The writer is very helpful. Typically a Japanese cuisine.

If you want Japanese food and you don’t want to pay a ton of money for just okay food on the Strip, definitely come here. It’s not far off the Strip, and believe me — it is WORTH it considering how expensive all the food is in the casinos/​hotels.
I came here for lunch with two other people, and we ordered a bunch of tapas among other things to share. The sunomono (slightly pickled cucumber salad), yellowtail carpaccio, seared beef tongue, garlic chicken gizzard, assorted sashimi entrée, and the deluxe combo with katsu. It was more than enough food to share. I don’t usually eat beef tongue, but wow this beef tongue was amazing. It was super thinly sliced and seared and so tender. The marinade was ponzu and the little scallions and garlic purée on top really brought it together. I also did not expect to like the chicken gizzard so much. It was not chewy at all — there was the right amount of crunch with the garlic sprouts sauteed alongside the gizzard pieces. The yellowtail carpaccio I enjoyed, but I thought there was an excessive amount of red onions though the salsa was great on top of the fish. The sashimi was super fresh and well-​cut pieces of thick fish. I did not expect Vegas to have amazing sashimi, but I was very blown away and impressed. The deluxe combo was also unique in that it included a bunch of items as side dishes — a pork miso soup, cabbage, tonkatsu with sesame dipping sauce (came with a bowl to grind up your own seeds to mix with the sauce!), tamago & tofu, and yuzu sorbet.
I can honestly say that everything was really good. This might be one of the best Japanese places I’ve ever eaten at. Another wow was how reasonably priced everything was! My sister and I were discussing the prices, and if all this food was ordered at a restaurant in the Bay Area, it would run the bill probably upwards of $ 100-​$ 150! The service was also really good — I am actually giving this place 5 stars because of how good the service was. Our waiter was a nice Japanese lady who explained everything to us as the food was brought out (in a timely manner, might I add)!
Whenever I go back to Vegas, Yu-​Yu is a definite must! I also want to try the sister restaurant Ichiza.

I could kick myself for not making the reservation at Ichiza. It was full to the brim so I suggested coming here since it is owned by the same outfit as Ichiza.
The food was lovely. The girlfriend was born and raised in LV but hadn’t been here before. Apparently Chinatown wasn’t cool enough for her, the snob. Well, she is now a fan

I have given this place a few more try recently. I’m glad to find out a few bad servers from the past doesn’t work here any more.
The experience has been very pleasant at this establishment.
The food was good when I visited last time.

The place is so modern and clean! There was so much to choose from. To start off, we ordered deep fried veggies and meats! The batter was amazing and everything was crisped to perfection. We also ordered one of their sushi rolls, it was their main house roll which was pretty good but it might be too spicy for those who are not fond of wasabi because it’s inside the roll. Another dish we ordered was their stir fried noodles which was delicious. Make sure to order the salmon because it just melts in your mouth!!! So good.
I definitely wanna go back and try their katsu meals. :)

Haven’t been to Yu-Yu’s famous sibling, Ichiza, but Yu-​Yu is a pretty strong offshoot of the original. The food we had here was very reminiscent of what we had in Japan.
I tried the grated yam udon noodle soup, which came with two Osaka-​style boxed salmon sushi, and I added sea urchin sashimi to my order. We also sampled assorted fried foods on sticks, including eggplant and octopus.
I’ve had grated yam with udon before, sans broth and served cold. I actually prefer the hot version that I had at Yu-​Yu, which came in a bonito-​based broth. It was so nourishing and savory. And the lunch special price of $ 7.95 can’t be beat.
Yu-​Yu specializes in kushiage; skewered and fried or grilled meats, seafood, and vegetables; so it was imperative that we tried a few of these items. Yu-​Yu provides a dark dipping sauce along with in-​house seasoned salts for dipping the skewered foods in. Very tasty and somewhat addictive.
Yet another gem located on the magical Spring Mountain Road. Not to be missed on your next trip to Vegas.

Supposedly the sister restaurant of Ichiza and located in the same plaza as Chinatown Mall, Yuyu specializes in kushiage (fried food on a stick) and katsu. I know it’s weird but my orthodontist got me hooked to this place and I am forever grateful for his suggestion.
AMBIANCE
I find it baffling that Yuyu is the sister restaurant of Ichiza. Ichiza has been on dirty dining multiple times and has gotten shut down by the health department which is the reason why I stopped going to Ichiza. The kitchen at Ichiza always looks filthy and the food they bring out are questionable. When was this sashimi cut? Last week? Was this someone’s left over?
Yuyu is elegant and most importantly clean, like how any restaurant should be. Their cleanliness and attention to detail really shines through and I love that a lot.
SERVICE
Servers here are polite, knowledgeable and provides great service every visit. They constantly check on you, refill water, takes dirty dishes off the table, etc.
FOOD
Kushiage– price ranges anywhere from $ 1 to $ 2 per stick. It might be scary for some to get fried everything, but kushiage here are breaded lightly. Kushiage comes with sauce and two different powder (spicy powder and curry powder). My favorite has to be their kurobuta sausage, dipped in the curry powder.
Deluxe Combo– it’s a great deal. $ 19.99 and comes with katsu, rice, sashimi and bunch of side dishes along with a dessert of choice, vanilla ice cream or yuzu sherbet. Comparable to the meal set from Tonkatsu Kiyoshi, but with more options.
Salmon Skin Salad– green salad with ikura and fried (?) salmon skin. I personally like their Salmon and Avocado Salad more.
Sushi– ordering sushi from Yuyu is like getting a bowl of ramen at a curry house. It’s not their specialty. That being said, I enjoy their Salmon Avocado Roll which are only $ 6.50 and is a good portion with fresh sashimi used. My only complaint would be that they pack dense block of rice but salmon used in the roll typically is a generous cut.
CONCLUSION
Love the kushiage here. Somewhat odd that their lunch menu seems more appealing to me than their dinner menu. Will be back for lunch!

Now I know the rules. When I go to Yu-​yu, I should stick with kushiage.
I went there for lunch today and got pork ginger, which tasted good and so did the tonjiru soup, but I was’t as satisfied as I had the kushiage or kuro tonkatsu! Lesson learned.

Love coming here when I’m in town for quick and inexpensive Japanese food. Coming from SF, the prices here are a steal! Their sushi may not be top notch, but you get a big bang for your buck. They’re located at the Chinatown plaza, next to 99 ranch. I never had an issue with wait and service was always great.
I normally start out with the salmon and avocado salad with no mayo. The mini sashimi bowl is a favorite. It’s basically a chirashi for one person with about 9 pieces of fish. The seared beef prime is another favorite. You won’t find it in the menu book; it’s on one of those stand up menus at the table.
What’s really a steal here is the Deluxe Tonkotsu Combination. For $ 19.50, you get fried pork cutlet, with a small scoop of potato salad, rice, 5-​piece sashimi, choice of soup, apanese style omelette, agedashi tofu and a choice of dessert. It’ll definitely fill you up. We went with the yuzu sorbet. Probably the least memorable part of the meal.
Again, not a fancy, high quality Japanese restaurant, but good go-​to spot for Japanese eats.

It’s super easy going and not at all crowded on a Sunday in the early afternoon. Super chill.
The sashimi was fresh. Everything we had was great.
This is a great place to take people who have limited culinary experiance. You can try all sorts of new things like octopus, different pieces of chicken and bacon wrapped stuff.
The sushi is a bit limited, they have all the classic traditional rolls. Aside from that there are some more creative rolls.
The sashimi bowl is the perfect size for lunch along with some other small bites. The mini bowl had 3 pieces of 4 different fish.
Overall this place has it all on the menu and it has a good price point. It’s super laid back.

How has this place been around for 2+ years. I’ve driven by it so many times and never saw it…
We stopped in on a late Tuesday afternoon and the place was empty the entire time we were there. Walking in to a restaurant that has 3 times more workers than customers can’t be a good sign, right? I would have left if the waitress that approached us hadn’t been Japanese. Japanese restaurant run by Japanese staff, it gave me hope.
We ordered the katsudon, 10 piece Chef’s Choice kushiage, yellowtail carpaccio and fried jidori. The katsudon was my favorite out of the things we ordered. The egg/​onions were the perfect consistency– more watery than solid. The katsu was soft and flavored well. (I could only find katsudon on the lunch menu. I don’t think they serve it during dinner hours!) The yellowtail carpaccio was weak. The wasabi wasn’t strong enough, nor was the «homemade salsa.» Sashimi with watered down flavor. I almost wanted to ask for some soy sauce for it. The karaage was good, crunchy not moist.
Kushiage are $ 1 – 2 a piece, the $ 2 we saved by ordering the Chef’s Choice wasn’t worth it. Skip it and choose your own kushiage instead.
Our 10 piece assorted kushiage included– mushroom, asparagus, lotus root w/​curry flavored ground chicken, squid leg, quail egg, chikuwa w/​mozzarella cheese, onion, beef filet, shrimp w/​japanese ginger and something else.
Good: lotus root w/​curry chicken, quail egg, chikuwa w/​mozzarella cheese
OK: mushroom, beef filet, shrimp w/​ginger
Skip: asparagus, squid leg, onion.
Yu-​Yu was good, but not amazing. Not enough for me to rave about it to friends.

Thanks Unilocalers for all the great reviews!
Came here for girls day (Hinamatsuri) lunch with my mom. We had the katsu combination lunch. Came with soup, tamago, tofu, sashimi, katsu, rice and sorbet. Great location, price and fast service. Will be back!
I’m a fan!
–miss Unilocal 2015

Kushiage! Such a cute dining style! All fried skewers — dare I say: perfect for those hormonal times?
I’ll admit I was a little scared to have a huge selection of fried everything — it sounded dangerous to me. But to my surprise, the little skewer guys were only breaded lightly with a crunchy panko blend, not too greasy, or heavy and fried with expertise (I know this because the bar is in direct view of the open fry and prep kitchen!) — pretty cool scene I might add.
I particularly enjoyed the condiments: cabbage salad and a dark dipping sauce I believe is made with Worcestershire and light soy = not too salty? They also bring you flavored chili salt and curry salt to dip your skewers. My hugest complaint would be that the dipping sauce could use some more character. I felt that it was so plain and didn’t really add any extra life to the skewers. I think that straight up tonkatsu sauce would have hit the spot.
Here are my favorites: all range from $ 1.00-$ 2.50 per skewer and there are typically 2 – 3 small pieces per skewer. with the exception of the garlic which comes with 5 cloves:
Garlic (5 cloves) $ 1
Okra (1 okra cut into 3 pieces) $ 1
Avocado (1 piece) $ 1
Quail egg (2 eggs) $ 1.75
Curry beef tongue (2 pieces) $ 1.75
Shiitake with ground chicken (2 pieces) $ 1.50
Bacon wrapped enoki (2 pieces) $ 1.50
Bacon wrapped scallop (2 pieces) $ 2
We also requested miso soup, but they don’t offer it here. The waitress recommended that we try the Tonjiro $ 3 — Miso based pork broth soup with tender pork belly and flavorful root veggies. So wholesome and comforting! If you love miso soup this is a step up!
Also, to compensate for too much fried food, we also tried the Yu Yu special roll $ 11.95 — it’s a typical, fresh fish sushi roll: a nice complement to the breaded offerings.
We also noticed the variety that they offer on their menu and we are intrigued by their Japanese «tapas» and fresh and creative sashimi selection.
Just note that the bill will add up quicker than you think. We left satisfied with a bill greater than $ 30 for 2.