Gyumanor Japanese BBQ

Gyumanor Japanese BBQ is located at 3229 Hwy. 7 in Markham,  Pop is $1.99 canned not AYCD Gyumanor has a modern dark interior, although the lighting is not dim. Soy-based sauce at table was too sweet for me, but Mishy loved it... it did however go well with the food. One thing I noticed is that there is no free Wi-Fi and the signal in this cellular building was very poor, which makes it very difficult to order as all the menus and ordering is digital through one’s smartphone. Reusable chopsticks are used thankfully. We went for weekend lunch.

Veg. salad was spring mix with a quite original dressing which tasted very authentic and we both loved it. Popcorn chicken was excellent with an orange sauce. Japanese beef rice was fantastic and we both really enjoyed it, and have not seen it on any other place; it had a wonderful wine-like sauce. Cubed pepper beef was like having a very good steak, so savoury and smoky and a thick generous cut of very good beef. The “original and secret” beef was also fantastic; very well-seasoned. I ordered “crispy radish cubes” but what arrive was not crispy but instead small cubes with terrifyingly hot kimchi sauce that burned my mouth and I could not finish it. I had to rinse the sauce off in a bowl I could not taste anything for several minutes afterwards. Kimchi also used this sauce of course, however I was prepared for this and only took mini-pieces of it that were not immersed in the sauce; still it was very hot and I couldn't taste anything afterwards. Pancakes were just the opposite and extremely mild, including the white sauce included. Cucumber and soy sauce was better than expected, as the soy sauce was well-seasoned. Cold noodles were enjoyable even though they seemed to be in dilute kimchi sauce.

Sweet potato fries were very good and well-seasoned. Fries were good and crisp. We both loved the bibimbap even though we had let it sit a bit too long and it was getting cold; it did have a bit of heat. Chicken nuggets were quite good using their sauce is probably just ketchup. Pork belly was excellent with the provided sauce and table seasoning, and thick cut was even better. I loved the seasoning and flavour of the sweet sausage, which are tiny complete sausages rather than slices.

Crab stick salad roll, torched salmon, roll, fresh mango sushi roll and salmon oshizushi were all good and, although not superlative, I was glad to have it, however they were not complimented by the oversweet soy sauce.

There are only two desserts: brown sugar jelly and pudding. Both of them were excellent... the jelly had lychee and raisins or similar, and the pudding was crème brûlée with a wonderful custard flavour. I didn't miss ice cream. It was $28.99 for weekend lunch whish is slightly cheaper than average; it was very enjoyable other than the excessive heat in the kimchi sauce, which I need to note as a subjective preference. (Does anyone actually like this? I guess so...)

Rating: 9 – 9.5 / 10