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| - I actually didn't know this place existed until I had a pamphlet delivered to my house. The dinner bento boxes are what really caught my eye. $12.99 is a great price and on top of that, the variety and combinations available for the bento boxes made me pick up the phone to order. With a lot of other sushi places you're limited to one main meat choice (example: salmon OR chicken OR beef) but Sakada offers options like chicken teriyaki AND salmon in one box that falls under the $12.99 price. The boxes at Sakada also came with a miso soup, green salad, 3 pieces of salmon sashimi, 6 pieces of california roll (cucumber, avocado, crab meat, fish eggs), and 2 spring rolls - just an absolute mountain of food. I've noticed that other restaurants will provide one of either sashimi or a roll and when a roll is offered, it's usually just a cucumber roll or plain salmon roll. The fact that both sashimi and a maki roll were offered was awesome. There was also no "filler" item like fruit which I thought was great.
I ordered for take-out and was quoted an estimated time of 15 minutes for 2 orders of bento boxes. My food was immediately ready for pickup when I arrived and the staff were friendly.
When I started unpacking my food, I could see the care taken to prepare my take out order. For fried items, steam holes were cut into the boxes and a layer of oil absorbing paper was laid underneath. The food was also looked appealing - it looked fresh and was laid out nicely - it reminded me of what it might look like if I dined in. This might not be important to a lot of people but it's nice to see that a restaurant didn't haphazardly throw together my food because I'm a take out customer and thus the wait staff don't need to work for that tip.
In terms of the taste, everything from the salad to the fish was fresh and tasted great. The teriyaki sauce was flavourful and the dipping sauce for the chicken cutlet was awesome too. The chicken cutlet was crispy and wasn't over battered. I'll definitely be coming back here.
Overall great Japanese option in Pickering!
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