I visited Chodang SoonTofu with high hopes after reading the rave reviews on Yelp and Toronto Life.
In one sentence, Chodang has strong potential in their food but their service is a huge letdown. The restaurant is super tiny, with room for about 15 diners. There are posters everywhere regarding the health and their procedure of preparing tofu, which was interesting but neither here nor there.
I ordered the Mushroom Soon Tofu (I believe every Soon Tofu dish is $8) and it was overloaded with deliciously chewy assorted Asian mushrooms. The spice level was just okay, though the lady taking orders, and by taking orders I mean she walked over to the table and stared at us unsmilingly until we said something. I've never been to a Korean restaurant with service this brusque.
5 different banchan were placed on the table, including an egg in a bowl as a nice detail. There was a deep fried fish as well, but it was about 30% grease and 50% bones.
I would have loved to come here again, but I'm not sure I would return with the service the way it is. In an empty restaurant you'd think you'd get acknowledge when very obviously trying to get someone's attention. Not here. I gather she is the 'wife' as I never saw the husband anywhere. Hopefully this wasn't a one off case as a result of a marital tiff.