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The Good:
Friendly service, nice contemporary indoors
The Bad:
MSG (and lots of it!) in their main specialty (ramen noodles); food arrived at very random times and some finished their meals before others even arrived; quality was below average
Overview:
So I decided to take my folks out to try a new place after they heard of my food-ventures. They'd driven by Steeles many times and had seen this new Japanese noodle shop on the south side of Steeles beside Subway, just slightly west of Old Kennedy road. Being a Japanese noodle house, I decided to get what should be their specialty. I ended up getting a Sapporo Ramen, can't remember what the item name was (the item names themselves weren't descriptive, they have light descriptions in the bottom of each item although it didn't help much in picturing what I was ordering). My father ordered a seaweed salad and had to ask for a custom roll since they had no other vegetarian food there, the avocado roll. My mother ordered an unagi roll. The seaweed salad and avocado roll were average, according to my father who has picky standards like me. My mother found the unagi to be tasty but she's pretty generous. As for my meal, it was a soup ramen served with some slices of beef, some onions and a piece of seaweed. The first thing I tried when it arrived was the soup. Right after my first spoonful my taste buds felt completely numb. I couldn't believe the amount of MSG they put into it! One spoonful of the soup felt like I'd just eaten a cup noodle, which as you can imagine, has a lot of MSG in it too. Just, wow. I ended up finishing alright but I had at least 6 glasses of tea! The noodles themselves were OK but the broth ruined it completely. A place that calls itself a Japanese noodle house should definitely invest some more time in learning how to actually prepare a broth without overloading it with MSG! Mine was 8.99 before tax and the portion was average. I was definitely not full after eating it but I didn't expect to be seeing others order similar items. The service was very good though...the waitress that served us was very polite and friendly. At the end, I did end up tipping generously though as I always tip based on service, not on the quality of the food. You're tipping the waiter/waitress after all, not the chef!
Overall, if you're going, do your tastebuds a favour and don't get the soup noodles. Maybe it was just mine (I think my item was H002 or something...it was on the left side of the menu on the left side of the ramen page), maybe it was just that one day, but I'm definitely not trying that again if I do decide to go back.
- Simon
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