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| - Came here after a great foot massage a few doors down. It took a while to get seated but they were clearly shortstaffed; the service turned out to be courteous and unobtrusive.
I originally came in for kimchi fried rice - I liked how you can choose what meat to get. But after having 2 so-spicy-I-almost-cried kimchi fried rices in Koreatown (I have a wimpy foreigner's palate), I decided to play it safe and get the gam ja tang, because they have a mild version.
It was very, very good! The broth was very meaty and rich without being greasy (unlike ramen broths), it was very flavourful, and there was plenty of meat in there, with a good helping of veggies (large bean sprouts and enoki mushrooms, I believe). The rice was a little overcooked, but I didn't mind too much.
The banchan were some of the best I'd had! There was fresh kimchi (so it wasn't sour and wasn't too spicy either, come to think of it), a refreshing seaweed salad (that wasn't too sugary or acidic, like at many other places), japchae made of flat, wide glass noodles that kind of reminded me of Chinese ho fun, a DELICIOUS cooked eggplant concoction, and this weird crunchy kelp. I originally looked at the kelp with some trepidation because it had bubbles on its surface - it looked almost like beetle wings, but in long wide strips. To my delight, it was crunchy and actually quite tasty - both sweet and savoury and soy-y at the same time.
The gam ja tang tasted very salty as it cooled down, but it was just right when it was hot.
I'd come back for sure (if not this location, maybe some of the other many ones they have in Toronto). And hopefully next time I'll be brave enough to try their kimchi fried rice!
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