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The Japanese entry on Macdougal Street’s cheap-eats row comes with a tiny back bar churning out sushi and sashimi—popular choices on the far side of midnight. Although the cuts can be inelegant, portions are large and the fish is fresh. House rolls employ creative ingredients like broccoli and apple; the sushi-pizza appetizer—tuna or salmon layered on a hash-brown patty beneath a lurid mass of roe—is significantly ahead of its time. Hot entrées (udons, tempuras, and teriyakis ) get equal billing, and if the bibimbap, served in a hot stone bowl, is Korean not Japanese, who really cares? Yummy Village’s interior is narrow, its mottled copper gussied up by a bulletin board filled with Polaroids of customers who have challenged the twenty-minute sushi-eating records: 60 pieces for men; 37 for women. If you can beat it, your raw fish is free. — Ethan Wolff

Mon.–Fri., 4 p.m.–8 p.m.; buy-one-get-one-free sushi and sake specials

Sushi regular, $17.75; barbeque chicken, $12.75