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| - Sushi Tei is one of those restaurants that you can trust to be fail-safe. Conveniently located near Square One and Celebration Square, it's a good spot for mall-rats and festival-goers to grab some grub. In fact, my friends and I went here after the Japan Canada Festival 2017. The first thing you will notice when you arrive is the "traditional" decor with its wooden booths and paintings of geishas. We enjoyed the clean interior and spaciousness, but, other than the decor and the polite service, nothing else blew us away.
The food here is decent; it's good, but it doesn't have a "wow factor" to it. The portions were average, but the prices were a few dollars above average. The price to quality ratio was a concern as well. We ordered the chirashi bowl, unagi donburi, sukiyaki, angry tiger, takoyaki, and donkatsu. Here were our thoughts:
- donkatsu - my bf, who is a self-proclaimed donkatsu aficionado, said it was one of the best donkatsu dishes he has ever tried in the GTA and surrounding areas.
- angry tiger roll - it was bland, dry, and the size was too large to eat without difficulty.
- unagi donburi - my friend said he would rate it 6/10 because it was decent in flavour and size, but the price was too hefty for what he received.
- sukiyaki - the broth was flavourful, but it was too sweet for some and there was only a small portion of meat.
- takoyaki - it looked very-well plated, but it was 3/4 the size of takoyaki that you could find elsewhere
- side dishes - unlike other Korean-run restaurants, you only receive two side dishes (tofu skins and bean sprouts)
Overall, we didn't dislike the food. It just wasn't impressionable. We would still recommend others to give it a go because they had a constant traffic of customers, which is a good sign of well-received food by the general public.
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