Tacky Tako Sushi

A few weeks ago we went to Tako Sushi, a Chinese-run sushi place on Don Mills between Lawrence and York Mills. We've ordered and enjoyed sushi party trays from this place before, so we had high hopes for dinner. Apparently, those hopes were unfounded.

We started it off with some vegetable tempura. It was terrible. The tempura batter was super oily and soggy, and the veggies were mushy. In two cases, two slices of different vegetables were stuck together in one piece of tempura. Ugh.
Next up was a beef sashimi. This dish was alright. The beef was not sliced as thinly as I'd like, which meant a little bit of work to eat this dish. The spicy soy sauce was okay too.

We had these baked scallops hoping that they'd be reminiscent of oyster motoyaki which we've had in Vancouver. Unfortunately, this was not the case. The scallops were drowned in a too-salty curry sauce and topped with cheese (the only redeeming part of the dish). The scallops could have been styrofoam chips for all I knew - the nasty, salty curry just overwhelmed everything.

These sushi "rolls" were basically a deconstructed California roll. Overall, these were pretty tasty, but there was a disappointment: the bed of rice was supposed to be crispy (possibly by frying the rice) but it was just normal sushi rice.

At least we ended the evening with this katsu-don (pork chop on rice). This was a pretty decent rendition of a standard dish. Nothing special, but nothing wrong with it either.

I guess we're sticking to the party trays from now on. At least those have a cash discount.