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| - It was last Friday after a night of drinking that I had this ridiculous craving for Korean food. Since I was already downtown, I figured my friends and I might as well go to ktown for food. After parking, Mom's Korean food was the first restaurant we saw, judging by the appearance I suggested to walk down a little further to see what other restaurants were open, quite fortunately it was cold and we ended up settling for Mom's Korean Food. Boy, it was a fantastic choice we made. As we walked in, we were immediately seated. Quickly put in our order and it was a matter of minutes until our food was already out! We ordered the spicy pork bulgogi with rice, pork ribs, ramen rice cake, fried beef dumplings, seafood soon tofu soup and Jjamppong. We didn't have high expectations for the food, but I must admit the food was delicious! The bulgogi was cooked very nicely, it wasn't too chewy or too hard. The pork ribs were seasoned with a hotpepper paste and when I ate it, it literally came off the bone, it was made to perfection. The ramen rice cake was mediocre, in my opinion I don't think it was big enough and it was a little dry for my liking. I didn't try the beef dumplings, but my friends were raging about how tasty it was. How I usually decide whether or not I like a Korean restaurant is by judging their soon tofu soup, and I have to say, it was impeccable. It had the right amount of tofu, that the tofu wasn't overpowering the soup, the spiciness of the soup was good but expect a little kick, the broth was quite memorable in my opinion kind of had chicken broth base so I quite enjoyed that. For the final dish, Jjamppong, for those of you who aren't familiar with Korean food, it's a spicy based noodle soup (soup flavor similar to soon tofu soup btw) with seafood, usually shrimp, muscle and squid. I have had jjamppong 4 times, and this is by far the tastiest one I've had. The noodles reminded me of a skinnier version of udon, the soup was a little spicier than I expected but it didn't stop me from finishing my bowl! Overall, I had a good experience here and I'm sure I'll be coming back soon for my next Korean food fix!
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