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| - So I finally decided to venture out here on a weekday night for cheap cheap sushi. We tried a fair share of the GTA's Japanese restaurants and prefer to stick to sushi a la carte for portion control.
For ambience, there are only about 4 tables of two and it sort of feels like your Asian grandma's tea room (if you have ever been around one) and so if you are looking for a romantic date night, this might not cut the cake. This sushi restaurant is a cheap eat and so, you should treat it as such. Most customers went for the take-out route (CASH ONLY, gosh that is so inconvenient nowadays). Or else, like a well-practiced act, you might get a scowl face from the female japanese cashier who then, out of frustration, subsequently hands you a debit machine in a covert fashion (I witnessed this many times).
We ordered spicy salmon, dragon roll (shrimp tempura) and spider roll. The sushi rolls are GINORMOUS, as in 3 inches in diameter (and that might be an understatement). The sushi chefs have definitely adopted the Texan way of making sushi.
The spicy salmon everyone raves about is honestly siracha chili sauce packed with salmon sashimi (it was 4.99). Cheap, creative but definitely didn't quite hit the spot and didn't taste the way spicy salmon is done elsewhere in the city.
The Spider roll was unconventional in that it contained egg, avocado, cucumber, salmon(?), and soft shell crab. Suffice to say, it was STUFFED and could be considered a meal for two in itself. The dragon roll was equally large. Each maki took two huge jawfuls to chew. As other reviewers had mentioned, if you are eating here, you must prefer quantity over quality.
I might come back for a cheap bite if I'm in the Yonge/Sheppard/Finch area. I would only recommend it to someone who just feels like filling up on sushi on a dime.
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