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| - Ma-si-sseo-yo! I'm so impress with Manna, that I want to help out every South Korean in America and take a baseball bat to Kim Jong-un's head. Swing batter, batter, swing! then "the sound of crack of a bat"....and today's lunch was a home run!
This is the epitome of mom and pop establishment, because I only seen the very friendly older man, and his wife running this place when I got there around 1:00pm.
What I found pretty funny, that they modified the names of each meal to help out the CSN college kids, who comes to this very unique food court. Bimimbap is just titled Rice, beef, and vegetable bowl, and looking at the pictures on the menu board, you know it what it really is. Don't get me wrong, just because the menu name is changed for Korean cuisine challenged, their food is100% unmodified Korean recipes from the wife's mother. It had that home cooking feel to it.
Being next to CSN campus, you kind of understand the majority of clientele will most likely be nearly broke college kids, and Manna does take care of them because nothing on their menu is over 10.00, and there's a couple of daily specials that are 2.00 lower than the daily regular price.
Well, we ended up ordering Gabitang (listed as Short Rib soup 7.95), Bulgogi (Marinated beef 9.50), and a $4.99 teriyaki bowl. It didn't take too long to get our order done, and our banchans came out first. It was nice to see this, because If I didn't see this on Yelp, I would have never thought this could happen is this food court. They bought out six different dishes, and all of them had right amount of sweetness and spiciness. The Gabitang was very good, and they put in the a generous amount of short ribs and green onions, and I really enjoyed my bulgogi! They gave a good amount of meat for the price, but what surprised me was the value of the teriyaki bowl! WOW, that was DEAL! It was damn big for the price, but I don't know that tasted like, because the bowl was clean out before we left, (I guess, my uncle was pretty hunger)
I'm a big fan of this place, but why the four star? It's too darn far away from Henderson, and the location is not easiest to get too. If they were in east side of town, I think they would get my final star, because their better than any other Korean establishment near Henderson.
This review will be Manna's 14th Yelp review, and one more four star rating after mine will earn them a Yelp sticker, and letter from Yelp on their achievement. From what I learned from talking to owner, he love reading Yelp, and mentioned about the large turnout on last week's CYME Kaba curry event.
Finally, if you're not into eating a AYCE Korean smackdown....give this place a try because you will not be disappointed at all, because you will taking a takeout plate with you home. Yes, they gave large portions of food.
kamsahamnida Manna! I will be back!
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