The traditional method for preparing sushi requires slices of raw fish to be held over unlit fires in order to secure that signature uncooked flavor. Explore such innovative foodsmithing with today’s Groupon to Sushi Zone in Arlington. Choose between the following options:

• For $10, you get $20 worth of Japanese fare at lunch.
• For $20, you get $40 worth of Japanese fare at dinner.

Sushi Zone’s chefs slice and dice fresh seafood, steaks, and sushi in traditional Japanese style. The roast garlic tofu steak ($5.25) kick-starts feasts with a flood of garlic sauce, making way for the tonkatsu pork, freshly fried and anointed with rice and dripping sauce ($11.95). After being grilled to supple tenderness, a New York–cut steak, coated in tangy wasabi sauce, offers a shoulder to cry on ($16.95). Lunchtime california-roll combinations mix and match the avocado and crab-stick-filled roll with four pieces of nigiri—tuna, fresh salmon, white meat, and shrimp ($9.95)—or with the tongue-tickling heat of a spicy tuna hand roll and a dynamite hand roll ($9.95). A sleek sushi bar juts out from the wall, offering primo seating to watch the knife skills spectacle of Sushi Zone’s deft chefs.