My Sushi Restaurant (Japanese)

My Sushi Restaurant is located at 5440 Yonge St., one light south of Finch subway station so is transit-accessible. I went for weekday lunch. My Sushi is a smaller place with a nice interior and long window frontage. Free Wi-Fi is available. Pop is $0.99 AYCD. Ordering is old school onto paper templates. Reusable chopsticks are used. Soy sauce at table was not salty, was rich with wine notes and very fresh. Included tea was very fragrant with something added that made it wonderful, especially on a cold rainy November day, so I didn't want anything else.

My Sushi salad aka the house salad was excellent with house rice wine vinegar ginger dressing. Miso soup was excellent with plenty of umami, clumped perfectly was just a touch dilute. However it was savory enough that it didn't really affect it. Beef teriyaki was excellent, the sauce was very good with wine notes, not too sweet, and there was some black pepper on the beef which really brought out the flavor. Chicken teriyaki was similarly good, the sauce was the same but it complemented both quite well, and the chicken was well-cooked. Chicken katsu was excellent, sauce well-balanced and tangy, and chicken cooked well. Tonkatsu AKA pork cutlet was equally good. Shrimp tempura was excellent; the dipping sauce was very good and rich, and the tempura light and flaky.

Crab surimi nigiri was very good and fresh. Butterfish nigiri was almost certainly escolar, but was also very fresh and good with good rice. Surf clam nigiri was also very good and fresh. Red snapper nigiri, almost certainly tilapia, was slightly off of completely fresh, but not enough to really matter. Salmon nigiri was excellent, very fresh. Salmon cheese roll, almost a Philadelphia roll, was excellent with large chunks of very fresh salmon. Yam tempura was piping hot fresh from the fryer, so it was a touch oily, but this soon passed and it was good. Gyoza were served with sauce already on, and were quite good. Spring rolls were also very good with a very nice fragrance. General Tao chicken, while not strictly traditional, was very good in an orangey sauce. Beef udon soup was quite good and with a milder flavour. Red Dragon California roll (salmon, crab surimi, avocado, cucumber and tabiko) was a good combination but beware the size... not bite-sized for most!

For dessert, sesame balls were served hot and were delicious. Shot-glass mango pudding was very good. Banana tempura was excellent with just the right amount of chocolate sauce. The red bean ice cream had that wonderful, indescribable flavor that I love (and too often go without.) Green tea ice cream was good. Vanilla ice cream was the darker French vanilla style which was very good. Mango ice cream also had the signature and hard-to-find flavour that I love that reminds me of bit of lychee, so three of the four ice creams were top-notch. Service was excellent and friendly. Weekday lunch $19.99, which is quite good given the area and with the excellent included tea and inexpensive AYCD pop, this was an excellent lunch with almost everything above-average (and I would happily return with Mishy.)

Rating: 8.5-9/10