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| - Interesting place in a Chinese plaza at Leslie/Finch. Yes, it's correct to call it Asian Fusion, but when that term was coined, it referred to the fusion of Asian and western cuisines. This place is Asian-Asian fusion. Like, Chinese/Korean/Japanese mixed in with a bit of "who came up with that weird/tasty combination?"
Anyways, we went for a late dinner on a weeknight (after kid's hockey game) and they delivered piping hot, fairly good food, tout suite. Had to throw in some French in my review since the name of the place is inexplicably half-French. We ordered spicy-pork bibimbap, pork ramen, and Japanese beef bowl. I finished the family's leftovers (due to the small portion size of the bibimbap) so consider me eminently qualified to judge the quality of all three meals.
bibimbap: mildly spicy (half chili out of 4), tasty, but small. I liked how the stone bowl kept it hot throughout and also gave the rice a nice crispy outer shell.
ramen: standard fare, good but nothing to write home about. A bit too much corn for my taste
beef bowl: blah. not much to it -- rice and beef, exactly as described. there are probably better choices on the menu
Cool décor, and we loved the spade/pitchfork utensils as well as the "City of Ember" light bulbs. I'd post a few photos but I figured there must be a few in the 500 photos posted already.
The night we were there it was mildly busy but I would guess that it's pretty crazy in the summer, with all the fancy drink concoctions and that towering toast/dessert thing they sell. (Not sure what the fuss is about, but we didn't try it.)
Would go back just to try some of the other stuff that they had on the menu, there's a lot of things there I haven't seen elsewhere.
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