J-Town

I have a soft spot for J-town, I love getting sushi from their fish market and the Cafe Green tea has the best Japanese curry with bread chicken ever! So I thought I would give Niwatei a try since my sister was raving about their ramen, also because they had a Groupon for $20 worth of food for only $10.

It’s a tiny restaurant with about 10 or so tables and an open kitchen.

It got kind of busy while we were eating even on a Tuesday night.

I came here with my mom and we got one ramen set, one ramen and a appetizer.
This is my Miso Ramen for $7.80; I thought the soup base was too salty and there wasn’t enough chashu in my bowl, only two small slices. The upside to my meal was that the ramen noodles were really good, they were perfectly cooked with a nice chewy texture.

My mom got the Tonkotsu Shio Ramen set for $12.80 which comes with an appetizer of your choice and dessert. My mom also made a comment about the temperature of the broth, it just wasn’t as hot as we wanted it.
*Note the ramen set is only available for dinner and weekends, also J-town in closed on Mondays.

This is the karaange chicken which is basically fried chicken. It was nicely fried with a light crust and a hint of spice.

My mom got the Mini seasoned Beef with rice as her appetizer. I had one bite and needless to say I ate the whole thing, the beef was tender, the onions were nicely caramelized and the sauce was sweet and savoury at the same time. It was so good, I stopped eating my ramen just so I could eat this.

Chocolate Chiffon Cake was the dessert of the day, it was dry and lacked chocolate flavour. My mom said it was probably day old from the grocery store which is probably true…sadly.

Honestly I don’t think I will be going back Niwatei anytime soon, I would rather pay a little more at Ippai and get hotter broth and more chashu or pay less and go to Cafe Green Tea for basically the same thing I would get at Niwatei.

Cafe Green Tea
3160 Steeles Ave E
Markham, ON
http://www.jtown.ca

I had a little mishap with my car last weekend and had to take it to the dealership to get fixed. Satya and I got there at around 11:30am to drop off the car and the mechanic said it would take about 2.5 hours, oh great! I decided to take Satya to J-Town which is literally a 2 minutes walk from the dealership to just look around.
J-Town is the largest Japanese shopping mall in the GTA, it isn’t even that big though compared to a normal T&T supermarket. It the “mall” there’s a bakery, a cafe, a meat section, seafood/sushi/sashimi section, grocery store and a shop that sells random things. As soon as you walk in, you get a waft of fresh baked sweet bread! Instantly your mouth starts watering!
I LOVE the sashimi here, it’s always SO fresh and reasonably priced. We decided to grab lunch there cause I was feeling a bit peckish.
We went to the little cafe, which I’ve never been to but everything on the menu looked so good!, I was going to get udon and Satya said he was going to get the curry but some how convinced me to get the curry and I some how convinced him to get something else.

After you order, you get a number and you sit down and they bring you your food.

So I got the curry with bread chicken. I’m so glad I did cause it was awesome! Not too salty, just the right amount of sauce to rice ratio and the chicken was super crispy!

As I’m typing this, my mouth is watering…I could really go for some right about now!

Satya got the yaki-udon, I don’t think he like it that much cause the whole time he was eying my food and actually finished off the rest of mine. I didn’t really like the flavour of his dish but the udon was so well cooked, it was perfectly cooked; still chewy and not mushy.

Probably wouldn’t get this again cause the curry was just SO good!

Everyone should get their behinds to J-Town not only for the food but the have all your Japanese cooking essentials and super fresh fish and great raisin bread!

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