Sushi Mountain (Japanese)

 Sushi Mountain is located at 1540 Dundas St. E. in Whitby, the municipality about 30km e. of Toronto, at Thickson Road and just n. of its Hwy. 401 exit. Sushi Mountain has a plain modern interior with many windows, all chairs with no benches or booths. Ordering is old-school onto paper templates. Disposable chopsticks are used unfortunately but we brought our own as always. Soy sauce at table is all green-lid low-sodium; it was flavourful and slightly salty. AYCD canned pop is included in the meal price, which is fantastic.

Mishy loved the seaweed salad, was was a large portion. Miso soup was a bit bland, probably just dilute, but had plenty of wakame and was still enjoyable. Cheese wontons were the flatter variety and were quite good and flavorful. Spring rolls were good and the sauce was as well. Age tofu was delicious and had many visible flavour ingredients in the sauce.

Black pepper beef was wonderful excellent savour in a simple soy and black pepper sauce. Chicken teriyaki very good with thick strips of chicken and sauce was reminiscent of maple. Beef teriyaki excellent in the same sauce and mushy also loved it. Shrimp tempura was light, flaky and not oily... very good and the sauce was delicious. Chicken katsu was delicious, moist and savory, not over-fried, with a good sauce topping. 

Salmon nigiri was excellent, fresh good rice. Butterfish aka escolar nigiri also very good and fresh, as was red snapper aka tilapia nigiri. Crab aka surimi was very good as was surf clam; all quite fresh. Philly roll was good but had a slight excess of cucumber filling. Spicy salmon sushi was delicious and well spiced, not too hot.

For dessert, vanilla, green tea, mango and ginger ice creams all fresh and good. Fried banana was made with a green banana rather than the overripe usual so didn't taste right; I attribute this to the overload of customers Sushi Mountain has had as all regions west of Durham are closed due to the COVID-19 emergency orders, so not enough time to let the bananas age. Service was still fast and friendly even with the overload. Weekend lunch was $19.99 which is excellent even with the minor shortcomings considering the current shortage of AYCEs and and included AYCD pop. We had a very good lunch and would happily return.

Rating: 8.5-9/10