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| - Green Pepper is the 1st Korean restaurant in Squirrel Hill, and the second Korean business after Young's Oriental Mart. Normally, I like to rant or rave about a business, but I'm very neutral about this place so this is a pros and cons list about this new business:
PROS
-Service was very genteel
-Portion size for the Kimbap was large.
Meat dishes, like Bulgogi, are much cheaper here than at other Korean restaurants in Pittsburgh, but the casual food is a little overpriced.
The plate ware and interior decor is very streamlined, but there is an awkward emptiness still lingering in the space.
-I peaked into the kitchen and it was very clean. Was a little too empty of the ingredients and inviting cooking smells though...
Like in most korean restaurants, a complimentary dessert or candy is served. Here they had both! Hobakjuk (korean pumpkin porridge) was served in little white bowls after we asked for the check and then our bill came with peach hard candies for the table!
CONS
-Like mentioned earlier, you're overpaying for casual Korean cuisine you could get cheaper at Korea Garden but the Bulgogi is cheaper here.
-Service was nice but the waiters are unexperienced students and everything is very slow.
-Green Pepper doesn't serve as many side dishes as the average Korean restaurant but their complimentary after meals totally compensate for this.
-NO DEFAULT KIMCHI at the table!! This is unforgivable. It may have been bc I was at the table with non-koreans, but it's still ludicrous.
-The Ramen Soup and Kimchi Dumpling Stew could've been made at home for a couple bucks. If you're going to serve it at a restaurant, there should be other things inside. There wasn't even a dropped egg or a couple pieces of green onion in the Ramen. The dumplings looked so lonely in the stew because there was nothing else in the broth. No mushrooms, cabbage, meatballs, onions, nothing!
-Besides our table, there were only Korean patrons there, let's share the culture! The place could use more advertisement and be less introverted.
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