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| - The food here is hit or miss.
The good:
Spicy Pork Buns - Nice grilled soft bun with what I will describe as "korean pulled pork" inside. The pork inside is sticky and soft with a bit of chili. The bun being grilled is a nice touch since it adds a nice smokey flavor to the sandwich. I wish there was some pickles on the side or inside this sandwich to add some acidity though, but overall a nice dish.
Spicy Rice Cake with Pork Belly - I love the rice cakes in this, the texture is soft and chewy and not mushy, there is also a generous amount of pork belly and has a nice kick. It is kind of greasy, but it is soo good.
The bad:
Kimchi Jjim - The good thing about this dish is the portion size, it is huge and comes with a very generous amount of pork belly. This dish consist of fried tofu layered with kimchi and braised pork belly. The tofu is not crisp, and kind of greasy so it was not that appetizing, the dish taste only of kimchi and does not have that much dimension, the pork belly was bland.
Cheese Don Katsu - The coating is way tooo heavy on this dish and the pork was bland and bit dry (due to overcooking?), the sauce was kind of strange with the cheese at the bottom, I really did not enjoy this dish.
Other comments:
They have drinks with food combos, which will save you a bit of money in a group, so that is kind of cool. The main dining area is downstairs but, they also have a private Karaoke room upstairs which you have to book in advance for parties. I am not a fan of karaoke, but the group I was with are, and they enjoyed themselves. None of us in the group were Korean, but the karaoke machine buttons and screen was all in Korean, so it took us a while to figure out how to work this thing.
The service was ok, being in the private room, we had to keep going downstairs to request more drinks. I understand that the waitstaff does not have the time to keep checking on us and might feel like they are being intrusive, but there is no service if we have to keep going downstairs for every round of drinks needed. I think a good idea would be to have a button to request the waitstaff attention in that room.
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