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| - My hunger drove me to walk over to Kiyomizu tonight, alone! I ordered four dishes, a lot for my tiny frame. Nothing went to waste! I ordered Sapporo beer and a bottle of Organic Nama Sake. Half the bottle was adequate for me so I gave the other half to a couple who had just arrived and thought they'd love the experience of drinking beer and cold sake alternately. Agedashi Tofu around the world is pretty good, but tonight's Agedashi Tofu is probably the best one so far in Toronto recently. Usually the batter is too thick and sometimes the broth isn't quiet as good, but this one really did it for me. I hanker after a certain Agadashi at a hole in the wall place in Sydney, Australia, where a local food critic treated me to dinner last month. This one is the closest, the broth not quiet as good, not gingery enough, but the deep fried tofu batter was almost parallel, frail, the fragile stringy bits a little gooey (how I like them)! I also ordered the Hiyashi Tofu, a cold tofu with green onion, ginger and sesame oil, a real treat on a hot summer's day. Nasu Dengaku, grilled eggplant with sweet miso and sesame sauce was beautifully seared over the barbecue and finally the Legend Dragon stood up to it's name, avocado, cucumber, deep fried shrimp wrapped in spicy salmon with sauce and fish eggs. Suddenly being back home in Toronto after a great deal of traveling and eating Japanese in Paris and Sydney, isn't that bad. I'll definitely go back in a hurry to my neighbourhood bestie and try some other dishes soon! In the mean time, if you like any of the four dishes I tried, don't wait! Genmaicha was all I could handle to round things off but Black Sesame Ice Cream caught my eye. Maybe next time...
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