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| - Unfortunately, I'm not on the Gushi bandwagon. I recently moved offices near this kiosk and decided to give it a try since the $5 anniversary promotion was occurring.
It is located in the food market next to Jerk Joint, so with a roof over your head, you're eating in a cleaner and shaded place compared to the Dundas branch, which only has outdoor benches on a rundown path.
The service is quite quick for freshly made chicken: you wait about 5 minutes. I ordered the original and the nanban boxes here. Both boxes came with purple rice, radishes, and three pieces of fried chicken (regular sized box). What makes the nanban box different are the pan-fried onion slices and the white sauce (I forgot the name, but it tasted like ranch and tartar sauce). The rice sometimes had harder chunks, so it suggested that it wasn't freshly made rice. Also, the box was mainly stuffed with rice and there are no rice substitutions here like a salad. I would call it quits for the carb-conscious. The chicken was another problem. My bf found the chicken to be of low quality and I found the breading to be too thick, though smothering it in sauce did help to make the chicken skin more palatable. The nanban sauce, with its strongly flavoured sauce and soft onion slices, was the best box out of the three I tried in total from Gushi (I tried the Japanese curry box at the Dundas branch). However, at five dollars a pop, I still don't think I will be returning because of the non-existence of substitutions for the rice, the lack of vegetables, and the thicker breading.
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