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There’s a boatload of Asian seafood restaurants in Brookline. Their names range from the evocative (Fugakyu, which sounds a little like a samurai swordsman’s swearword) to the prosaic (Chinatown Seafood, simple and to the point). But between those two Coolidge Corner establishments sits one sushi bar whose moniker has lately gained a new and unwelcome association.
Tsunami, whose logo shows its "T" rendered as a tall and cresting wave about to engulf the rest of the word, was very quiet during lunch hour this past Monday. A lone couple dined in the corner; a waiter and a sushi chef bided their time behind the bar at the back. On the walls, fish-shaped kites hung lazily. The silence was sculpted only by water burbling gently over pebbles in a small fountain by the window.
Tsunami. A word that just two weeks ago signified merely a half-grasped abstraction, a distant possibility, now evokes something all too horrifically real. Small surprise, then, that a restaurant named after one might not be high on most diners’ lists. In fact, however, owner John Wu says he hasn’t noticed a precipitous decline in customers since the "the terrible incident" of two Sundays ago. "The economy is slow in general compared to two or three years ago, there’s no doubt about that," he says. "But there’s not been a significant drop."
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