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| - As a Korean, it's hard to swallow this Japanese business name, but here we are in Canada, where everyone shares cultures.
We call "taiyaki" boong-uh-bbang, or goldfish cake.
Kevin's Taiyaki is located inside the PAT Supermarket on the corner of Bloor and Manning.
Goldfish cake can be made from butter-batter or egg-batter. The butter kind is yummier, but heart-attack-ier. The filling options are red bean, black bean, or green bean. There is no fish in a fish cake! They just look like fish.
If you're lucky, you can buy a fish cake right as they're coming off the grill. I use this as bait/reward to get Boyfriend to come grocery shopping with me. We walk home with our bikes loaded up with groceries, taking turns on having bites of the yummy fish.
It's crispy on the outside, moist on the inside, oozing with delicious sweet bean paste.
My main complaint is that their hours are not rigid. The PAT website publishes the hours that are posted in the Yelp profile, but after having spoken to the proprietor, they say that they leave when it gets quiet at the end of the day. Be prepared to be disappointed if you go late on a slow day.
Totally unrelated but cute fact: When you see a child and parent who look very much alike, we say that the child is a goldfish cake of the parent. You know, because they were made from the same mold!
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