Tuesday, 29 May 2012

Kazan Teppanyaki Barbeque Restaurant


Date: April 17, 2012
Location: 9625 Yonge St. (north of 16th Ave.), Richmond Hill
Meal: dinner

My thoughts:
My family and I came here for a joint birthday celebration for my sister and I. This is what we ordered below:

Takoyaki ($6.95): fried breaded squid balls.


Ja Jung Myun ($9.95): noodles with black bean sauce.

Steak teppanyaki ($24.95): 10 oz N.Y. strip loin

Sukiyaki teppanyaki ($19.95): 8 oz marinated rib eye in special sauce.

Yakiniku teppanyaki ($19.95): 8 oz thin sliced Black Angus strip loin with teriyaki sauce.

Choice of three teppanyaki ($29.95): chicken, shrimp and scallop.
If you have never had a teppanyaki meal, what it basically entails is a chef cooks your food in front of you on a flat iron grill. Asides from preparing and cooking the food, chefs usually also create some form of entertainment. A popular one is stacking several rings of onion and lighting the whole thing on fire to create the illusion of a moving volcano.

Anyway, I didn't bother taking pictures of the teppanyaki dishes because we all shared the food and it was difficult to differentiate between the different cuts of beef.

Overall, the food was pretty good. Each teppanyaki meal comes with the standard miso soup, a salad and a bowl of rice. I highly recommend upgrading the rice to fried rice for an extra $2.50. I didn't care too much for the takoyakis. They were somewhat lacking in flavour. The noodles were tasty but were lukewarm.

Although a bit pricey and the disappointing takoyakis, I think this restaurant's is a great place to celebrate a special occasion. It is fun and interactive. I just wouldn't recommend purchasing a voucher for this place. Apparently, there is a lot of unwritten fine print with using vouchers here, which did put a bit of a damper on our evening, especially given the fact that we were celebrating two people's birthdays.

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