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| - SongCook's is a great, authentic korean restaurant that you will certainly enjoy. Although I had a good and tasty experience here, I wasn't blown away by anything and there are some little things that detract from this place. That being said, I still consider Songcook's to be one of the top Korean restaurants in Toronto.
Half the restaurant is split into on the floor seating and table seating and personally that is an idea that I really welcome, despite having dead feet. For those of us tall people, it will be a bit of a struggle but it's rather nice you can enjoy a meal in a traditional manner!
Side dishes were rather lacking as you will only get three: kimchi, bean sprouts, and radish. However, you're free to ask for as much as you would like and I have to say their kimchi is amongst my favourite kimchi I have ever had. It tasted fresh and I really enjoyed how crunchy and sweet it was.
For the food, I have to say the samgyeopsal ssam wraps were my favourite dish of the evening. They were tender, grilled well, and weren't too fatty. Their vegetable wrap tray comes with romaine lettuce, kale, and perillia leaves and I found that one order is more than enough. The jokbal was really interesting - it was five spiced sliced pork hock. The pork was tender and flavourful and there was quite a lot of meat on the plate. It was served with various sauces - a fish (anchovy based?), a salt based, soy bean based, and a mustard one. I loved the variation and enjoyed the mustard one the most. I do recommend eating the jokbal as a ssam for maximum enjoyment! The hwedeopbap, while good, was fairly standard and the same with the gamjatang.
One minor complaint with this is that rice is separate. The soups didn't come with rice, and neither does the BBQ. It's kind of silly because how else will you eat it? I understand they do have brown rice, and barley rice but they really should include white rice. Instead, you pay $2 for a bowl of white rice and $3.50 for the others. Which leads me to say that the overall prices here are a tad on the higher side, but that's okay, because the food here is great.
Service is great despite it being very busy. The dishes came out fairly quickly and although we had to remind the lady for the jokbal, she served it right after. Bonus points for her explaining what some items were and teaching us how to eat some of the dishes i.e. what goes along with what.
All in all, I would definitely return here to SongCook's for their great authentic Korean food.
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