Moon Sushi Japanese Restaurant

Moon Sushi is located at 1900 Fowler Drive, just north of the Queen Elizabeth Way and Southdown Drive in Mississauga. It's just north of Clarkson GO station, so was the welcome lunch end point for a long bike ride Mishy and I enjoyed from eastern Toronto on a chilly but very pleasant December Sunday.

Moon Sushi has a pleasant and modern interior, made even more modern by the iPad ordering system (which the higher-end AYCEs all seem to be using these days.) The music isn't too loud nor the decor too dark. Chopsticks are the reusable kind (I notice hardly anywhere uses disposables now.) The soy sauce was very fresh, not salty and nearly perfect. Ginger was not dyed pink. Soft drinks are AYCD and only $1.50. So, off to an excellent start.

We both enjoyed the green salad. Mishy really enjoyed the dressing, and she liked the seaweed salad very much as well. California roll was excellent. Teriyaki mushrooms were awesome with a wonderful smoky flavour (they are butter mushrooms plus teriyaki.) Dumplings were excellent and flavourful. Salmon rose sushi was fantastic; all of Moon's salmon was super-fresh and perfect. Cheese wontons very also very good but watch out... hot! I forgot to take precautions as I usually do and almost burned my mouth.

Spring rolls were very good and we loved the sauce. Chicken cutlet was well-spiced, as were the curry chicken skewers. Chicken teriyaki was very delicious. The beef teriyaki was utterly amazing: exceedingly tender, savory and flavourful. I ended up ordering two more portions, for which Mishy couldn't help but put aside her misgivings against eating mammals and helping me devour.

There were a a couple of slightly less-than-perfect dishes. The wonton soup's flavour was good but too dilute, and the tempura wasn't as light and flaky as it should have been; we tried broccoli and yam noting this, however the shrimp tempura was much improved.

Desserts were equally wonderful. The banana tempura included a maple sauce so was very good, the "berrycino" pudding was awesome and I wished I could order more (by that time lunch was over), mango pudding was also excellent and all the ice cream (chocolate, green tea, mango and vanilla) we tried was very fresh.

Moon Sushi's service was very fast and friendly, although it was noted that some of the wait staff's English wasn't too good, but this caused no issues. One thing also to note orders of more than one portion of something will be separately plated rather than together. The price at $15.95 for lunch was at the higher end but this seems standard for the newer sushi AYCEs to set the bar higher with better food and decor, iPad menus and faster service. All in all, it was a fantastic lunch for the price and capped off a wonderful day.  I would definitely return.

Rating: 9/10.