On The Radar is a weekly SmartShanghai column where we profile 2-3 new venues that you might like to know about. Here are the facts and our first impressions.

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Keeping it compact, sweet and mostly bite-sized this week, kind of like our two venues. We've got hiphop themed take-way maki rolls from FUKU Sushi and plastic goblets filled with creamy goodness at Kiss the Tiramisu.

FUKU Sushi

What It Is: The guy behind the counter said it's Shanghainese-owned. If so, then either the owner or the manager have probably spent some time overseas, because they're injecting way more West Coast culture into sushi than just serving Cali Rolls. To wit; Kendrick Lamar on the stereo, motivational weed references plastered on the wall in neon tubing, "punny" and/or topical names for their sometimes very weird maki rolls.

At the moment, the menu's got 10 different rolls available. Things like the FukuRoll (lobster salad, tobiko, crispy ebi, apple, cucumber, avocado), the SuperBored (tobiko, torched salmon, salmon tamago, cucumber), the Cartier (tobiko, torched tuna, cream cheese, cucumber, avocado), the PinappleExpress (tobiko, avocado, spam ham, pinapple (sic), cream cheees) and the BlueNana (cereal corn flakes, blueberry jam, kiwi, banana). That sentence was structured to give your eyebrows enough time to knit gracefully at the menu's audacity. How'd we do?

They've also got the Kenny and the DonaldTrump. One's orange on top and kind of yellowish in the middle, the other's kind of yellow on top and orange in the middle. None of the names have spaces in them, so they're super easy to hashtag.

The maki rolls come in really nice boxes: "Team" sized (30 pieces for 268rmb) or "Squad" sized (10 pieces for 108rmb). They've got these little dividers between all the rolls (a name card that'd have Mr. Bateman salivating inform you it's best to remove these before eating), along with wet wipes, short, sturdy chopsticks, wasabi and soy sauce sachets, napkins, the works. You can either come to the shop and listen to hip hop while they prepare it for you, or you can order delivery from their WeChat channel.

First Impression: Sushi's just all right. Tastes like take-out. The BlueNana was straight-up unpalatable. I'm all for #innovation, #paradigmshift, #disruptive, all that stuff, but I don't know if banana's the way forward for sushi. The blueberry jam wasn't offensive on the BlueCali, but it also wasn't amazing. Pricing is also inoffensive. FUKU is mostly inoffensive, unless you're a sushi purist. Hey purists! Read the name on the sign. Anyway, this place seems like it's aiming to be a lifestyle brand, not a tour-de-force in sushi quality, but maybe just stick to the #FukuRolls, the #Kennys or some #DonaldTrumps, #fam.

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Kiss the Tiramisu

What It Is: Basically a hole in the wall crewed by happy, smiling young people (for now), Kiss the Tiramisu is apparently the first Shanghai outing of a South Korean brand that serves plastic goblets filled with tiramisu and ice cream. There's one in Hong Kong, don't you know.

They've only got four flavors on at the moment; Original Banana, Strawberry (covered in, respectively, chocolate, banana and strawberry powder and syrup), and Matcha (covered in green nothingness). Each of them are 35rmb. The gimmick appears to be the highly photogenic goblets. Man, they look real pretty.

First Impression: Hey, it's okay! Nice dumb dessert thing to walk around with, those goblets are quite generously sized, and they look fabulous on your WeChat moments. Yes, they did melt a little quickly (doesn't everything in Shanghai these days?), but they tasted pretty good. The tiramisu, identifiable as the bit under the token layer of crushed ladyfingers, didn't taste like much (supposedly mascarpone cheese?), but the ice-cream on top tasted almost exactly like FamilyMart soft-serve, and FamilyMart soft-serve is fantastic. You tried that seasalt one? Fantabulous. Also significantly, significantly cheaper than Kiss the Tiramisu. But FamilyMart doesn't have a matcha option, yet, so I guess KTT 1 - 0 FamilyMart.