Always up for new sushi restaurant

Walk into Super Fusion Cuisine II, peek at the menu, and you'll have flashbacks to a dozen other Japanese restaurants where you've unwrapped your chopsticks recently. All the regulars are here: the maki combo, the sushi deluxe, the seaweed salad, even the tragically ubiquitous Philadelphia maki, a mash of cream cheese and smoked salmon.

But then consider the sea rainbow papaya ($9), an unexpected treat unless you're already acquainted with the original Super Fusion Cuisine in Brookline. This appetizer is theatrical, a thick disk of papaya sheathed in crispy tempura, topped with a lemony mix of smoked salmon, tiny scallops and snow crab, and a shrimp arching skyward. It's also very good.

This is the fusion in Super Fusion Cuisine II, little surprises lurking in the eel maki and the sashimi that will make you remember this place among the crush of blond-wood sushi bars.

SUPER FUSION CUISINE II

54 Mt. Auburn St., Watertown, 617-393-0008.

All major credit cards accepted.

Wheelchair accessible.
Prices Sushi $3.25-$45. Entrees $10-$20.
Hours Mon-Thurs 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m., 5-10 p.m.; Fri 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m., 5-11 p.m.

Sat noon-11 p.m., Sun noon-10 p.m.
Liquor: Wine, beer, and sake.

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