Martin S.
Yelp
I've been wanting to go to this infamous beacon of hopelessness on Spadina, you know the gaudy Green and Red sign visible from blocks away as you lurch up the wide puke and gob-stained sidewalk for late night grease you know will make you feel better somewhat after you leave, ever since I heard the awesome Toronto garage band Kiwi Jr. extoll the virtues of ending up there after a night of debauchery.
Now I kinda understand what they were talking about!
Previously when searching for the ultimates in Chinatown lunch special, I wondered why NHK was never open when I went for lunch.
One time I noticed a small crowd out front and someone with a key in their door at around lunch time, and I thought, oh! they are finally open for lunch.
But, alas, someone said aloud "four o'clock?!" and the guy at the door nodded. So I said "four o'clock?!!" and everyone looked, their long faces, with long teeth looking hopeless.
So when my buddy and I decided to go for late night nosh, after a great show at Lula Lounge on a Wednesday night (!), I talked him into going to NHK.
Fitting enough, I see a staff member through the window there as we pull up on our bicycles (in light rain, no less) well after midnight, and they dude looked a LOT like my unruly looking friend who fronts a punk band. Made perfect sense!
Inside it was empty that night, being a Wednesday, but I still wanna go back again on a weekend party night someday. A couple rock-star lifestyle looking dudes came in for takeaway but other than that nobody was going out late on a rainy Wednesday in Chinatown. Washrooms have dive-bar stench and vibe.
We ordered from the wack-looking guy and were happy with our order, just a shared meal of shrimp and broccoli, along with steamed rice, and seafood egg-foo-yung, the latter of which neither of us had tried before but have heard the name many times in pop culture. It was actually pretty good! Basically an omelette with Chinese flavours. It was very filling with all the egg and completed our meal nicely.
Recommended, especially if you are drunk, ears still ringing and it's before 4 am any night of the week.