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| - Let me preface this by saying that I'm Korean so there's a certain minimum flavor criteria that a Korean restaurant has to have for me to be a repeat customer. Also, the service was pretty good so I feel bad about what's to follow.
First off, I think they have some real issues with drying off their dishes. Everything had white fuzzy stuff on it and I left feeling like I had a ball of fluff in my stomach. If rather have water streaks all over than have that fluff all up in my food/water. I even asked for different glasses of water because of the fluff hoping it was a fluke, but the replacements were just as fuzzy as was everything else.
Next, the side dishes. My husband and I really thought only one out of the five tasted pretty good - the spicy cucumber dish. Everything else was mediocre including the kimchi. I feel like kimchi either comes too fresh (which is still pretty good), just right, and over ripe. This kimchi was a whole other category in itself. It was over ripe but without the flavor that would make it still edible.
On to the meal. My husband ordered kimchi jjigae (kimchi stew with pork) and a spicy octopus stir fry, while I ordered spicy pork and potato stew. The kimchi jjigae came out first. He usually orders that at Korean places since it's a classic and gives you a pretty good idea of what the other foods will be like. Kimchi is a very flavorful dish which in turn makes the stew flavorful. Korean food in general has very bold and strong flavors - not quite like Indian or Thai, but it's own little corner of flavors. However, he didn't make the best face after he tasted it. I tried it and thought that it was a pretty dull and lifeless version of the dish. It tasted very watered down like they had put rinsed off kimchi in some unseasoned beef broth. It also wasn't spicy at all. This kind of foreshadowed how the rest of the meal would go. I still hoped that the other two dishes we were waiting for would prove me wrong. Sadly they didn't. The spicy octopus dish tasted nothing like it was supposed to. There was no flavor and it was the amount of spicy you would expect when biting into a carrot. My stew came out last. Just looking at it, I knew it wasn't going to taste like how it's supposed to. Low and behold it really didn't. Kind of tasted like they tossed all the right ingredients into a pot of beef broth again. Again, zero spicy and zero boldness. I'm not really sure how we ordered three dishes that are supposed to be kind of spicy and flavor packed, yet got 0/3 that were remotely close. Not sure how they get away with charging what they do for the quality of the food. I've had the same dishes for way cheaper that were 10x the quality.
I was really hoping to find a place that could be my home away from home (in terms of food), but it looks like the journey for that quest continues on. This restaurant really TRIED to have good authentic Korean food with the variety of dishes they offered, but sadly the flavor profile was just not up to par. If you're looking for authentic Korean food, this is not the place. We only finished our meal because we grew up not wasting food and it was at least edible. And like I said, the service was pretty good, but that doesn't really make up for leaving completely unsatisfied.
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