Wild Ginger Asian Fusion

Very good AYCE sushi place with a nice variety of non-​sushi food as well. Good sushi pizza as well as various chicken items

Talk about a hit and miss restaurant. First and foremost, Wild Ginger is located in a what I would call an ennui inspired building. Just drab, where even the external bricks are shaded in the colour of depression and despair. No surprise not a lot of people know about the existence of this place.
Having said that, the interior is completely different, with a tad of a modern decour enhance by decent sized windows which allow healthy amounts of light during the afternoon hours. If fact, you could easily see people coming here to eat… but the question is: «Do they?»
See, Wild Ginger’s main attraction is a fairly large menu at an unusually low AYCE price. Their lunch menu is a steal at $ 10.99 while the dinner is a fair $ 18.99.
However and quite unfortunately, a lot of those menu items can range from «WTF?! to passable.»
Their sushi and maki are items best avoided. They are small, some of them will self-​destruct when in contact with chopsticks are they are not well rolled –so half expect them to come apart when in soy; and their sashimi? Yes, they are actually by far the best of the three if only because they are made of a solid piece of fish. Mind you, I do not recall them being included in the AYCE deal.
For best results go for the dragon rolls. Since the very nature of the dish requires a bit more care when being made thus they are marginally better prepared.
Some of the meat dishes fare a bit better. Salmon belly was alright and so where some of the appetizer items and the salads we had where okay. But then again, how can anyone mess up edamame? Curry pork was okay, stay away from chicken dishes. I think they use cheap ends which are quite fatty.
Oh, and their chocolate mousse? Well, according to my companion the thing was akin to Jell-​O quality.
The truth is this, this place is a deal if you only eat the things they can make alright or if you go with people who don’t know much about Japanese cuisine — aside perhaps that sushi contains you know, some sort of seaweed… you know, that sort of crowd.
If you are a foodie who expects even a remotely uniform menu in terms of quality… you will have to look elsewhere.
In conclusion, I can guarantee you nothing you taste here will be the best you will ever have of ANYTHING; and hopefully by the time this is posted the restaurant will have enough common sense to remove the dead plants from the entrance — seriously, horrible first impression guys.

A lot of interesting things on their lunch menu. Normally I would say don’t get Chinese at a sushi place but it was packed in there so we gave it a shot.
The Hot and Sour soup was surprisingly good. I would get that again if anything else! All other stuff was… just meh. Got a green dragon roll and a philly roll. The green dragon roll was a little bland and felt like it was missing a crunch and an extra flavour. The philly roll was better but not super.
I was looking forward to their General Tao but it didn’t look or taste like General Tao and we actually thought it was the sweet and sour (the waiters don’t identify anything for you)… eventually we figured out it was the Tao because the sweet and sour was just cherry sauce stuff. The popcorn chicken was really greasy but better than these two dishes.
That said, the fried stuff was just thrown on the plate and there was grease everywhere.
So basically, 3 stars for the soup and $ 10 AYCE and MAYBE I’ll be back, but next time I’d like to try Guu which is close by, my friend recommended it to me after that lunch.

Gross! Gross! Gross! I wish I could give less than 1 star. I cannot believe the other reviews listed here.
We had a group of four and had the all-​you-​can-​eat menu. The sushi was horrible – it didn’t taste fresh and seemed hastily prepared! The service was horrible – our waiter couldn’t identify what was on the plates he brought, nor could the bar make the drinks we asked for! The atmosphere was horrible!
Avoid this place like the plague! :-(

Looking for some sushi on College was a bit of an adventure. Our palette’s were all set for some good Japanese food at Izakaya Sushi House (near Kensington) but weirdly, it was closed at 2:00pm on a Sunday despite their sign’s business hours…
Anyways we drove East and happened to see the Flashy sign outside of Wild Ginger, a Japanese & Thai Fusion resto. I must say that we were very impressed at the modern and classy décor of this (new?) restaurant. It had great Feng Shui with spacious booths, large windows, and a sushi bar. A classy crystal chandelier and nice bathrooms topped off the ambiance inspection. 5 stars there!
Now onto the food:
It was about 2:30pm now and I assume we had missed the $ 7.95 lunch specials… unfortunate, as I enjoy nothing more than cheap food in an upscale venue. Anyways, after looking through the dinner menu we decided that it would be best to go for the AYCE lunch. $ 12.99 + ($ 2.00 Fri-​Sun). We were given the typical Japanese AYCE checkoff menu, but here there were a few THAI options to choose from as well!
The House salad was tasty and not viegary/​too gingery, the mango salad was equally delicious with fresh ripe mango+onions+bell peppers. The miso was watery and the hot+sour soup was ok but I’d pass on these next time. Agedashi tofu was good but unremarkable.
The teriyaki chicken was quite tasty, the coconut curry chicken was a nice change in the flavor mix. They also had pad thai and udon/​fried udon, but we didn’t order these. We did however order sushi! Unfortunately there were only 2 special rolls, both of which we ticked off, as well as a Mango/​avocado hand roll, Spicy salmon hand roll, salmon roll, dynamite maki, salmon + white tuna sushi.
The presentation of the rolls were excellent with a great ratio of filling/​topping to rice (always key). The fish wasn’t exactly melt in your mouth, but adequately fresh.
Service was fast and attentive making sure to fill up water/​green tea and offering dessert after the meal. Dessert options were more than just the usual ice cream if I can remember correctly it had some other goodies… but simply we were all too full for that.
So overall it was a really nice surprise to find this reasonably priced fusion restaurant with good ambiance. It was great to have the dishes prepped in an A-​La-​Carte fashion and presented nicely despite it being AYCE. I’ll be back for lunch specials and weekday AYCE lunches!
**Oh Note Bene! ~ there is a 10% discount if you pay by cash, so hit up the CIBC across the street! :P

This place is such a hit or miss for me…
My last experience was horrible… We went with a large group… I food kept getting mixed up. Never got some of the items we ordered and food took too long to get to us. The service was slow and we had to keep repeating what we were ordering and follow up on when we would get it…
The table wasn’t served at the same time either so one side was eating while the other was still waiting… We had to move food between the table to keep everyone engaged…
Needs better management… The food was ok… I’ve had better…