{"id":9706,"date":"2013-05-04T18:49:09","date_gmt":"2013-05-04T23:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=9706"},"modified":"2013-05-04T18:49:09","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T23:49:09","slug":"tsunami-not-as-good-as-it-used-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=9706","title":{"rendered":"Tsunami: Not as Good as It Used to Be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tsunami used to be one of our favorite eateries on the East side of town. Over the years, we went less and less frequently for diet and financial reasons. The last blow was moving to the South part of Wichita. It was no longer convenient for us to go.<\/p>\n<p>A recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groupon.com\/r\/uu3017670\"  title=\"Groupon\" target=\"_blank\">Groupon<\/a> offer got to us to return the other day, though. But it wasn&#8217;t the place that we remembered. It&#8217;s still located in the same strip mall and the menu is still the same, but the feeling is completely different.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/8683647785\/\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"pic\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8543\/8683647785_26ff05fb2d_z.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The salad roll was okay. It wasn&#8217;t as delicious as I remembered.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/8683643999\/\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8263\/8683643999_82e6768d51.jpg\" width=\"480\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fried dumplings were just okay also.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/8684761256\/\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8257\/8684761256_273095c636.jpg\" width=\"480\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"float:left; padding-right:15px; padding-top:5px;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/329\/1472543\/restaurant\/Tsunami-Wichita\" ><img alt=\"Tsunami on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/link\/1472543\/biglink.gif\" style=\"border:none;padding:0px;width:200px;height:146px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The bottom line is that the quality of the food isn&#8217;t what it used to be. You used to be able to taste the love in the carefully prepared dishes no matter what you ordered from the menu. Now the food is just blah.<\/p>\n<p>The people were nice, but I think the restaurant has changed owners. That would explain why the food isn&#8217;t the same even though the menu hasn&#8217;t changed. The sticky floors on the day of our visit was also an added turn off. The place just seems neglected. I feel sorry for what&#8217;s become of one of our old favorites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tsunami used to be one of our favorite eateries on the East side of town. Over the years, we went less and less frequently for diet and financial reasons. The last blow was moving to the South part of Wichita. It was no longer convenient for us to go. A recent Groupon offer got to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[2098],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9707,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9706\/revisions\/9707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}