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| - Came here for a dinner date after a long day at work, we were looking for some sushi at an affordable price, downtown core area. Yelp helped us identify the spot, and had it not been for the decently high rating I would've overlooked the place as a fast food spot. The location is right across from the TIFF Lightbox, and is set up very much like a grab and go fast food place. There were only a few tables and some bar stools, a very simple layout with open space probably meant for lineups or crowds waiting for their orders. We weren't sure if we had to order and then sit, but staff greeted us and directed us to a table for dine-in service. We were handed some menus - their takeout brochure really, and brought some chopsticks and napkins. Overall the place is cute and great for customization - a quick fix for food any meal of the day but not somewhere I'd rave about.
The menu is pretty simple and clearly designed for takeout. There's a variety of simple appetizers from miso soup to chicken karaage, a selection of bento boxes, specialty rolls, sashimi platters, set meals and combos, and the signature make your own maki roll. We went with a bento box each, chicken karaage to start, and a custom maki roll to share.
The bento box comes with miso soup, 4 pieces of California roll, choice of two gyoza or spring rolls, seaweed salad, and rice with choice of salmon, beef, pork, or veggie. It's quite a portion and definitely sufficient for a dinner meal, and quite affordable at $12.95. We noticed that everything is served in takeout-ready containers, and all the cutlery was disposable. I guess if you have leftovers of change your mind about staying, it's a quick ordeal having to only ask for some lids and bags. All the food comes at once, so chicken karaage showed up shortly after the bento boxes, and our custom roll followed. Our two-person small table barely fit all the items and the takeout trays made it feel a bit like a live Tetris game.
The bento box items were generic but not disappointing, the salmon on my rice was tasty and not too salty or too flavoured. My gyoza were crunchy but still biteable and chewable, and were still hot inside. The miso soup was a bit bland, and the takeout container made it appear even more plain. Everything else was acceptable, no surprises good or bad.
The chicken karaage was not to our taste because there was a lot of fat and soft bones, and the pieces were rather irregularly sized. The batter/breading was crunchy but not flavourful. The chicken inside was quite dry as well. I won't be ordering this again!
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