Category: Japanese/Korean (日韓美食)

Aug 23 2012

Shiso Tree cafe (J-Town)

Shiso Tree cafe is a fusion Italian-Japanese restaurant located in J-Town Toronto.  I was told that it’s a perfect place to go for lunch, for the price of $8, you get a salad, a soup and a main pasta dish, though the pasta dish is not as big, I think it’s quite a good lunch size for me consider it with the soup and salad.  I was pretty happy with my order, which was a spicy sausage pasta, it had a fruity flavor along with a spicy taste.  I really hope I can try all of the things on their menu, maybe I should just go there for lunch everyday from now on since it is not that far away from my office :p  If you work in the area, you should definitely give this a try 😀

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Rating: 7.0/10 (1 vote cast)

Jul 22 2012

DAHN (Korean Cuisine)

To celebrate Cheryl’s up coming birthday next week, we decided to treat her a fine Korean dinning at DAHN (Korean Cuisine), located on Yonge St. just south of 407.  This Korean restaurant is a little different from the other ones because they provide you with tons of private dinning rooms, if you make a reservation with more than 5/6 people, they would let you dine in a room with your own privacy.  Food is also very good but in my opinion, I like Bulgogi Brothers a little better but still, it is way way better than a lot of the Koreans restaurants out there already 😀  Unfortunately, there is one thing that we were not 100% satisfied, everything we ordered took a long time, even beverages…  Other than that, everything is good so if you are looking for dinning place with a little privacy, this is actually a very good place to have a dinner party 😀

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Rating: 6.0/10 (1 vote cast)

Jun 17 2012

Bulgogi Brothers

Bulgogi Brothers is newly opened Korea based franchise restaurant up in Richmond Hill. Located at 140 York Blvd where all the restaurants are gathered.  Bulgogi Brothers has around 30 locations in Korea and recently began expanding abroad, opening its first international location in the Philippines last year.

It was my first time having beef after I started exercising for weeks and it tasted soo good…  compare to the other Korean BBQ resturants in Toronto, I would have to say this one is probably by far the best.  Just like when you get bread and olive oil to start at other restaurants, Bulgogi Brothers started off the meal with a basket filled with traditional Korean snacks. The basket was filled with steamed corn on the cob, fingering potatoes and edamame.  Not to mention the beef combination we ordered, served by a nice Korean waitress, soo yum yum good…

Super thumbs up for Bulgogi Brothers with amazing service and food, guess other Korean restaurants will have to work a lot harder from now on, and I guess Chako (in the same plaza) is already out of my restaurants list :p

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Rating: 8.0/10 (1 vote cast)

May 12 2012

kon-nichi-wa Japanese Restaurant

Another good restaurant find in downtown, kon-nichi-wa Japanese Restaurant.  We were supposed to go to another one but too bad it was not open to public yet so we went to this one instead which is a like 20 steps away.  Everything in downtown is good including this, cute small restaurant with a very unique character, plus food quality is quite nice, all fishies were very fresh unfortunately, I am not too impressed about those cooked dishes tho, maybe they are just too regular in many places but still a pretty good place for a nice dinner tho 😀

Not to mention I was actually quite surprised there are soo many different kinds of restaurants in the area and I can tell you, I will someday try them all if I have a chance :p

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Rating: 8.0/10 (1 vote cast)

Apr 11 2012

TOMO SUSHI Japanese Restaurant

TOMO SUSHI Japanese Restaurant is located in Richmond Hill (Yonge st. and Weldrick rd.)  This is a restaurant that is a few blocks away from me, I have tried their take outs a couple times but never really got a chance to dine in it.  Luckily I got a perfect chance to go with a few friends so I could get a real good look and taste inside :p  We only had 4 people, so we didn’t order a lot but with just a few dishes, I was already amazed.  Of course it turned out as what I expected, food was very good and presentation was super.  Just take a look at the pictures below and yea, they taste as good as they look.  Oh, one thing I need to mention, if you dine in during sun down, the sunlight goes straight into the big windows which makes it a little uncomfortable with the bright light even with the shades :p  So go when its dark or before sun down :p 😀

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Rating: 8.0/10 (1 vote cast)