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| - Menu: http://www.buldak.ca/
What we had: blazing fire chicken, teary blazing chicken, blazing fire chicken with cheese, blazing fire squid, original fried chicken, kimchi fried rice, spicy oyster rice soup, special steamed rice, spicy ddokbokki (spicy ricecakes), spicy pork with rice
(We had this over multiple visits. We don't eat THAT much.)
Taste: 8/10
Out of my 8 years of occasional visits to this restaurant, I must say that the taste has been very consistent. I come here especially for their spicy ddokbokki, their sauce is not too sweet and very savoury. Along with the ddokbokki I would get the special steamed rice and eat it with the ddokbokki sauce. (Yeah that's a lot of carbs but it tastes so gooooood.) Steven likes the spicy pork with rice, though he sometimes complain that the pork to rice ratio is too low.
The blazing chicken is their signature dish. All of the items that says "blazing" on it uses the same sauce. The blazing sauce has a spicy, slightly sweet, and smoky taste to it. My friends like the blazing fire chicken with cheese. I'm impartial to the blazing stuff.
The fried chicken was dry, but it seems to be a popular item. Maybe we were unlucky that day, but I've had better fried chicken at KFC.
The kimchi fried rice is pretty good and not too spicy for my friends that don't usually eat spicy food. Their fried rice is served on a hot plate and tends to be very oily.
The oyster rice soup was OK, nothing special. I don't recall seeing any oyster in it.
Value: 5/10
This place used to have decent value, but now the prices have gone up and the amount they give has gone down. They've been consistent with giving you a complimentary plate of salad and a small dish of pickled daikon. Appetizers/side dishes are at least $10 (ddokbokki being the cheapest), a meat dish (blazing or fried chicken, squid, etc) is around $20, lunch special dishes are around $10.
**Average cost per diner: 25$+ After Tax+Tip but Steven doesn't really like their food so he eats less than he usually does, hence "+"
Service/Convenience: 7/10
They are located in a corner of a plaza in the end farther away from Yonge St. Not too easy to locate from the road, but look for a Red Lobster by the road and it's in the same plaza.
Servers are pretty efficient though sometimes it's hard to get their attention/they're nowhere to be found. They're not particularly friendly but they get their job done like any typical Asian restaurant.
Would go back? Yes, sometimes I crave their ddokbokki, I can't find similar tasting ddokbokki anywhere else; I've even looked around in Seoul. Heck even the chain in downtown doesn't make ddokbokki the same way.
Would recommend to friend? If they like spicy Korean food, it's worth a try.
Similar places: None that we know of yet.
**Disclaimer: Average cost per diner constitutes the amount (per person) we eat to get full without drinks. Total cost is usually divided between 2 diners, one of whom can regularly eat 7 slices of XL pizza
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