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  • A big hell yes I like this place. Get to know me well enough and you'll soon learn that fried chicken is an integral part of my being. Perhaps it ranks right up there with bacon or steak but whatever it's my favorite way of having this meat cooked, period. Mr Tonkatsu is visually squeezed into a corner near the intersection of Patricia and Yonge on the west side beside a butcher place that has enough room inside their store to open another entire store. Regardless it's cozy inside and it has an earthy feel to it probably because of all the wood everywhere. I sat facing the wall but I had been facing a textured wall and the decor was not simply sterile. What caught my eye was on a wooden weave type wall I caught some words on the strips and one of them was "SEOUL". The menu was pretty simple to follow. It's a single laminated sheet with no photos but everything if you know what it is - is pretty straight forward. There are simple descriptions and our server explained anything that wasn't clear. We had shared several types of fried chicken: plain karaage chicken wings (8 or so to the serving), honey butter "sprinkled" chicken thigh boneless and sweet chicken thigh karaage (sauced). What a great mix of styles and flavors! The plain wings were basically just battered wings, thicker batter than what I'm used to seeing with Korean style fried chicken but still tasty and crunchy. The wings were well cooked and not watery. The honey butter sprinkled boneless chicken was amazing. It was more of a tempura style batter, light and covered in a sweet butter type spice almost like a popcorn type topping. The pile on this serving plate was rather high and the taste and look almost reminded me of something you would see at a carnival kind of like elephant ears but no, it's fried chicken! Boneless thigh give good pieces of chicken and some pieces were long and thin but the batter and flavoring really made it something special. Last but not least the sauced "popcorn" style battered chicken was good and while a little sweet for me it was still complimentary to the other styles we had. One thing I'm not too fond of is when sauce makes the chicken lose it's crunch but still it adds flavor and changes the texture a bit so not everything is all crunchy and dry. For my main I had ordered a chicken katsu set which includes cabbage, rice and miso soup. The katsu came on a small cookie cooler type tray so by staying elevated it didn't sit in grease. Before that they had given me a pestle and mortar type thing so I could crush my own sesame seeds to mix with my sauce. I had no idea what to do with it until I asked someone what it was for. The chicken was thin, crispy and panko golden breaded. It was a good dish for only 14 dollars and the sides (rice, soup, cabbage) are in unlimited quantities. I ended up asking for more rice and soup afterwards. It seems at least for now that this establishment doesn't have their liquor license so beer wasn't to be had which was fine. I don't always need to drink beer with chicken although I do enjoy it once in a while. Overall the place is good and I would return. There is another location on Bloor in Koreatown and I may very well check that out as well.
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