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| - New restaurant in the destiny plaza at Old Kennedy and Steeles. Right when you walk in, it's an open kitchen, where you can see the yakitori being smoked. The waiters seem to all speak Mandarin, but with broken English they were able to serve us.
The layout is very cute with all the tables being wood, the booths seem a little small, we sat on a high table. The chairs are a little hard and uncomfy.
They don't have their liquor license yet, so they have pop or bottled water at the front where you help yourself. The pop is $1.75.
They have a warming tray to place your ordered yakitori while you eat. One order comes with 4 skewers, and it's $5.95 for a set. They have a variety of different meats. We tried to 2 that were recommended, lamb and pork intestines. Both are very good, the lamb were nicely seasoned and not too salty, the pork intestines had a garlic clove in the middle that was crunchy, very nice pairing.
We tried the eggplant skewer, it didn't come in a skewer, but on a plate, well seasoned with cilantro, it was slightly salty after a couple more bites.
Also wanted to try a noodle, so got the minced meat noodle. This was a cold noodle, mixed with minced meat, cucumber, cilantro. This was probably my least favourite. It was too salty for my taste, it needed more cucumber to cut the salt.
Lastly we got squid tentacle. It was 2 sets of tentacles, not too big. Once again using the same seasoning, so i found it was salty.
Overall an interesting concept. The skewers are really yummy, I think that's what I would stick with next time I come. The service was pretty good, you can tell they are new, they are not familiar with the table numbers yet. But they're polite.
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