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  • This restaurant has definitely change owners and lowered their standard! On August 23, 2014, we decided to go out to our old "favourite" Gal Sushi for a quick dinner and of course, ordered our old "favourite" food. We ordered Galbi (LA) style - $24.99 beef rib with big bones and d a bento with sushi and sashmi. The moment we walked in , we knew something changed. The old Korean greeting was not heard...usually the sushi chefs all shouted out..it was sort of their tradition. Nothing was heard and it was like going to a new place. All our regular Korean servers were not there. We thought it was a day off but for all of them... We ordered our food from a new server . We had to remind them that we wanted tea. He was quick to get it.. Usually when we ordered galbi, it would take about 20 minutes because they do have to cook it over a grill..and came in like you just BBQ from the backyard. For this meal, the galbi came out 2 minutes after we consumed our regular soup and salad. Then we realized why: it was a precooked and re-steamed galbi. For the last 8 years when I ordered this, the galbi came medium or sometimes medium rare. This galbi was very well done, tasted steamed and even the bone part was well done. It was simply not possible to BBQ on a grill and served the food in 5 minutes (total time from order to serve). We were very surprised and ate some because we were famished. But even a hungry stomach cannot eat steamed meat with grilled marks (barely there) ... It was horrid. It tasted like dry steam meat tenderized by baking soda with MSG (famous cheap Taste enhancer) and grilled marks. They had the nerve to make this their signature dish! And NO one came back to see if our meal was okay. Now I knew why! We had the sushi and sashimi bento with shrimp tempura. The shrimp tempura was re-fryed because it shrank after retrying and tasted very dry. It was served with a tiny tiny soya sauce plate which you can barely dip the tempura in. It showed that they don't know what they are doing. Tempura sauce is usually served in as all bowl or sauce plat big enough yo dip your fried food in...this one measured one inch square. The sashimi was okay because they did not reheat it. The sushi was passable . But we were glad we did not order our large combo because hat would test their skill a bit more. Service was definitely lower because no one came by until we asked for our bill. It is definitely new ownership and new crew. My disclaimer is that non Japanese or Koreans can manage a good sushi restaurant (e.g. Dragon legend). I heard the chefs were talking in Chinese and so were the servers. They brought in their usual habit like the one we no longer visit : Wasabi on West Beaver Creek - cheap food and average service. It is sad that another good place is replaced... Now need to find another or drive to North York spring garden street...
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