This has been a long time coming since I've been living in Hannover for five years now. I've been a regular here since 2011 when my husband and I scoured our surroundings for an authentic sushi restaurant to rival what we had in southern California. Having saved us from the brutal winter blues many a time, Sushi-Do is now our go-to mom and pop owned sushi restaurant and is the only one in Hannover that rivals the small mom-and-pop joints you can find in SoCal. Plus, they deliver! Although Sushi-Do doesn't have all the bells and whistles--a menu of hundreds of crazy rolls and a chic atmosphere--what they don't have they make up with their superbly crafted textbook-perfect sushi. Sushi-Do, how do I love thee, let me count the ways. 1. The rice is always the correct temperature, which is to say as warm as the hand of the sushi chef who is supposed to lovingly, yes lovingly, cup the top of the slice of fish to form it to the small block of rice and hold it there for a few seconds. Did you know it takes at least two years of rice making training before a sushi chef can even begin to work with fish? This is the single most important part of a piece of nigiri and I can't tell you how many places serve the rice cold, overcooked, or falling apart. If you see a place with rice kernel droppings all over the plates they serve you, run. 2. The fish is sliced correctly on the grain and precision placed on the rolls or nigiri. With sushi it's the little details that are so hard to master. Have you ever tried to eat beef sliced the wrong way? It's the same with fish. 3. Purveyors of freshness. I have eaten at several places in Hannover where I've ordered my favorites, uni or ikura, and have had to spit the food out on my plate because the seafood was old or even worse, rancid. If the more exotic things don't have a good turnaround, just leave them off the menu, guys! I won't fault you for having a smaller menu. Sushi-Do knows this and doesn't even try to put anything on their menu that they can't get fresh. 4. Artful and skilled presentation. Never too much, but just enough to let you know the chef is aware that you have eyes. 5. Flexibility, friendliness, and consideration. The staff and owners are lovely people, always friendly. I really missed my spicy scallop hand roll when I moved here and couldn't find it on the menu anywhere. I saw that Sushi-Do did spicy tuna and had really fresh scallops so I asked if they could make me one and they did. It has since been added to the menu because I order it every single time. They adhere to the Japanese hospitality code and aim to please. 6. Did I mention they deliver? Skip the trudge through the snow. This has saved me many a dreary evening when I had to work late at home and needed a sushi fix. read more