2018-07-20

Sake Sushi (Japanese)


Sake Sushi is located at 5875 Highway 7 in Woodbridge, in a small mall. It may be in a semi-isolated and semi-industrial area, but it had plenty of customers, with more arriving after I got there until it was full, all of them were couples or small groups. There is booth seating and a small upstairs area. Mini-iPad ordering is used, as well as reusable chopsticks. Ginger is not dyed pink. Pop is $1.25 per can, not AYCD. Sake Sushi also had very good air conditioning on a hot day which was most welcome. Soy sauce was excellent, fresh, high-quality but slightly salty, however I stuck with it.



 
Miso soup was excellent, savory, well-balanced, and fresh, not dilute. Wonton soup was excellent, tasty broth with both flavor and savour and excellent filling in the wontons. Green salad was good in light, savory wasabi house dressing, with a slight orange hint. Cheese wontons were excellent and had very good sauce, and were lighter and fluffier than many others. Steak teriyaki was fantastic, thick, juicy, savory beef in an excellent sauce. Agedashi tofu was excellent, sauce very good and cooked well. General Tso Chicken was lighter and spicier and very good. Beware the chicken dishes teriyaki, Tao/Tso and sweet-and-sour as they are served with broccoli and onion pieces. Are they considered garnish? I ate them anyway and they were good. Chicken teriyaki was excellent, nigh-perfect with sauce hinting of citrus and cooked succulently. Chicken katsu was very good, well-cooked and good sauce, although I think it was just modified ketchup but it worked for me.


Shrimp tempura was excellent as the tempura dipping sauce was the best I've ever had, rich like gravy with much flavour; it wasn't included so I asked for some and it was steaming when brought out. Pan fried gyoza was also fantastic and much of that was to do with that wonderful tempura sauce. Scalloped surimi tempura was very good, again especially with the excellent sauce.


Red snapper and white tuna sushi nigiri were excellent, super-fresh and with good rice. Crab surimi nigiri sushi was good. Salmon nigiri was excellent, fresh, a bit smaller than usual, but that's no problem as just order more of them. Spicy salmon maki was very good, well-spiced and tasty. Avocado cucumber roll was very good, with the avocado perfectly right. Philadelphia roll was very good; unsure of one of the ingredients but it was good whatever it was.


For dessert, excellent mango, vanilla, rich and bitter chocolate, red bean and strong tea flavor green tea ice cream were very fresh and all very good. Fried banana had chocolate sauce uniformly and thinly applied in a layer and was excellent like that. Cheesecake was not even on the menu never mind ordered, but it arrived anyways and was very good. Mousse cake was the same mocha cake as 8 Sushi and many other places use. Mango pudding was excellent. Mango tempura ice cream was also excellent, unfortunately I did not have room or time to try any more flavors of this excellent variation on plain old ice cream, as they are all available on a "tempurary" basis. Service was very fast and friendly. And the best part of the meal: weekend lunch was only $16.95. (There was even a handwritten note on the front door apologizing for the increase to this price.) There wasn't one bad item for this very reasonable price, and plenty of very good to excellent ones. Mishy insists I return sometime with her and I would be happy to.


Rating: 9-9.5/10

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