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| - Atmosphere: This place is a busy and happening restaurant. This is owned by the same owner/lady as Han Ba Tang ( I remember because she is this nice, middle-aged, Korean lady that was also there to serve us when Han baTang first opened.. and then here she is again here when I came!!) The tables are scattered all over the restaurant (can seat 2's, 4's or
larger table of 6), but there is no private rooms or secluded dining areas.
Reservation: I definitely will recommend calling ahead to book.
Food: Yay -- here comes the fun part!! This is a 'fusion" pasta/udon place! I totally dig iT!
It has my fav style of noodle --- CHEWY UDON, but it also combines different unique "CREAM" sauce to give it a similar PASTA type of eating way to enjoy your udon.
I definitely will suggest to order CREAMY sauce instead of their regular soup udon will not be as special as their different style and flavours of UDON sauce available.
Firstly, please also order the CORN kaki-age. It is battered corn but so YUMMY and surprisingly very addictive. Too bad I had to share that dish with others at the table!! =(
ALSO, ORDER the THAI ICE TEA! this is one of the STRONGEST thai ice tea that I have ever had in Toronto. It had such GREAT, bold flavours!!! and this is not even a THAI restaurant!! But definitely order it. It wasn't listed on the menu. I only knew to ORDER it, thanks to YELP REVIEWS that i read beforehand. OMG so good! but kept me UP ALL NIGHT.. it was such a strong tea that I really think that After my dinner meal, it still kept me wired late into the night!! I LOVE IT THOUGH!
Also, Some of my fave udon was: Mentaiko cream sauce (interesting flavour,,, sorta reminds me on those original flavour instant noodles... but addictive flavour to it). I was lucky enough to try a few different udon flavours because we came as a group and got to enjoy ordering a different bowl for each person (sharing it all between us of course!!).
I can't say i remember enjoying the other bowls THAT MUCH MORE because after eating all the different "CREAM" sauces, they all sort of tasted the same after, especially when there was nothing new in the textures as we ate the udon.
The original Kama and oven baked udon (unique because it reminded me of a western meal since it had CHEESE) were unique but then when we also ordered a bunch of other udon with cream sauce -- i Cannot really remember what i enjoyed.
I would definitely come here again. I can't say I have craved eating another creamy udon in A LONG while because it is not the typical meal I usually want to eat since it just feels too HEAVY. Good thing we had a group to share it with because one UDON order is really too big to finish by one person like me.
Great spot though!
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