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| - Well, it's a fairly unique restaurant concept for Toronto. Aka Teppan specializes in dishes served on sizzling platters, specifically whole meals served on sizzling platters, the specialty of the house being a supreme beef (hotpot style sliced beef) rice. The restaurant is fairly small, although deeper than it appears. I would not recommend coming with a party of any more than 12.
Fairly busy at 6:30 on a Saturday night. Came with a party of 12. Food came fairly quickly and efficiently. The servers did not remember who ordered what, so we had to answer when they let us know which dish they were trying to place in front of a person.
Was recommended: Ox tongue rice, and Atlantic salmon pasta with herbed cream sauce.
Ordered: Ox tongue rice ($8.99). On the menu, it says that corn and green onions are an extra $0.49 each. The ox tongue rice, without additions, already comes with corn and green onions. The $0.49 is for additional corn or green onions. They also have other additions that cost $0.49 and $0.99 respectively. The cheese option ($0.99) is shredded white cheese served on the side. I just ordered my ox tongue rice straight up. Good portion. Ox tongue slices served on the outer rims of the circular sizzling plate, and the rice topped with corn and green onions served in the middle. Upon first glance, the rice is sauceless. When mixed up, I discovered that the sauce was inside the rice! That was pretty cool. The sauce is almost like a terriyaki black pepper sauce. The reason I'm rating this a 3/5 is because the sauce wasn't flavorful enough, and the tongue was a tad too chewy and it lacked that distinctive tongue taste I enjoy. The tongue was braised in almost a star-anise soy sauce (or that's what it tasted like to me).
Additional notes:
No cake fee. We brought cupcakes and they gave us small dishes to eat the cupcakes on. They also brought us a knife so we could cut the cupcakes up and share them.
Final thoughts:
I would come again, but it would be because someone suggested it. I probably would not suggest this place. It reminds me of meals I had in Hong Kong, but in a more expensive, less delicious way.
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