DIXON – A taste of Japan now can be had in Dixon.
Bangkok Gardens Asian Cuisine, a sushi bar and pan-Asian restaurant, opened Monday.
You can get your vegetable maki or your unagi 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
Kadkeo Keopanya, who is from Laos but now lives in Rockford, co-owns and runs the restaurant at 504 S. Galena Ave.
Bangkok Gardens offers foreign drinks as well as foreign food. Imported beers go for $3 during Wednesday happy hour, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. If you want a domestic beer with your shrimp tempura on hump day, you'll have to pay $2.
The restaurant can be reached at 815-677-9038.