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| - Amazing food in a really random place! New York City has (had?) its best Banh Mi in a jewelry store. Montreal's best Thai food is in a student building food court. And now, with Kaiju, Toronto finally joins the ranks: our city's best Japanese-style curry is hidden in a dark, vacant mall underneath the horrific 60-storey Aura tower.
SERVICE & EXPERIENCE
Finding the mall entrance is a challenge. Finding the food court is a challenge. Finding Kaiju in the food court is... well, that part's easy because the only other options are two sushi places and about 10 "FOR RENT" and "INQUIRIES CALL CHRISTINE LIN" signs.
It's hard to find, but it's worth the effort: there is nothing like this place in Toronto.
The service is better than many sit-down restaurants in the city. The proprietors are always friendly, and more than willing to let you try samples. When you order, if you're eating in they'll let you sit down and then bring your meal to your table - and even set the napkins and plastic cutlery out! After you've started eating, they often come and check up on you to see if you like it, chat about the food, and bring you a customer loyalty card. It's some of the sweetest, nicest, most sincere and attentive service I've had in this city... BUT AT A FOOD COURT.
FOOD
As you've read here the food is incredible. I love Japanese curry, and I can safely say Kaiju's is the best in the city (my comparison points being Tokyo Kitchen, Tokyo Grill, Gyugyu Ya, Manpuku, Don Don (lunch), Bushi Udon Kappo, and some no-names). It's also among the best I've had in Japan as well (I ate a lot there...). It's not too sweet, it's a bit thinner than most (but still able to easily coat the katsu), and it's really original. It's not 'authentic', in the sense that I've not tasted any curry exactly like it in Japan, but it's really unique and it's DELICIOUS. Ask for extra sauce - it's worth the few bucks more.
The katsu is also incredible. Whether you order chicken, pork or fish, your meat will be dropped into the deep fryer the second you order it, and will come out hot and crispy. The meat is shockingly high quality for the price, and the quantity is the most generous of all the other choices in the city. It's really good value.
A word about the spice level: your choice only affects how much hot-pepper sauce they add to the curry (that's the reddish-orange substance you see in the pictures), not what kind of curry you get. MIX IT IN before you eat it, and don't go above hot or you'll drown out the natural curry flavour.
Finally, they also have a selection of Malaysian food. It's OK! But not as good as the curry. I had the Mama's chicken, which was quite good, but I like the curry a lot more. I also have no points of comparison for it, so I can't really give you a good rating.
CONCLUSION
So yeah, you really should try this place. Absolutely fantastic curry and incredibly sweet makes-you-feel-at-home service, all wrapped up in a weird, labyrinthine abandoned-mall ambience... I dunno, maybe I'm overthinking it but it's one of the most oddly compelling dining experiences I've had in this city.
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