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| - now every place you see would call themselves sake bar or izakaya, but this place, I don't see anything making it a bar, don't really see an extensive list of sake or soju or any thing make you think it's a bar.
me and friends decided to try this out as I saw the post by Jen K., after a quick look at the menu post at the door, it seems to be the same thing from Hiro.
we walked in and ask if there is any place we can park for free, the waiter pointed out that I can park on the side of the building even with the "No Parking" sign there.
we sat down at one of the booths, and closer look at the menu, it's your regular Korean Sushi place, you get some Korean dishes, and some of the sushi/sashimi choices.
seeing that my friend got a Korean dish (tang su yuk), and another got a Udon, so I decided to go with a Chirashi.
mine came up first, nice plate of sashimi on top of rice. (refer to picture)
the very little piece of BBQ eel, I rather they don't put it there. (or it's their way to get you order a full size BBQ eel?) two different types of seaweed on the side, and some pickled daikon and ginger. These are all a bit weird showing up on the plate.
Tang su yuk (sweet and sour pork, you can sub with chicken) comes, and it's a huge plate that obviously can't be finish by one person. it came with a small bowl of rice.
the sauce wasn't in a good balance, and the batter is a bit hard on the meat, meat doesn't have much flavor to it.
by the time I am half way done with the Chirashi and we are all well into sharing the Tang su yuk, with my friend worried about her Udon is not going to come, the waiter finally brings out the Chicken Udon.
Chicken Udon has few piece of chicken, possibly grilled, and some green onion and parsley, and very little green veg (so little that we can't tell what type), some mushroom.
as my friend is a little bit under the weather, so she uses a separate bowl to eat it. after serve herself two small bowl of the Udon, she gives up the rest, which isn't much because it has very little meat and real veg, and doesn't taste good.
she isn't full but the Udon was so bad that she really don't want to eat it. (not much left anyway)
Service was ok, but I guess the 2 wait-staff was hiding when the Udon wasn't ready. we couldn't find anyone to ask about it from the time the Tang su yuk arrived to the point they brings out the Udon. which was like almost 10 minutes.
because we were so used to being in a Korean run restaurant that we would have banchan, this place doesn't. (unless you count the miso soup and salad)
and then there isn't any dessert or fruit at the end, and we weren't asked if we would like to have any drinks with our meal (as a "bar" don't you think you should sell drinks?), or any dessert after meal...
the udon was 6.95, tang su yuk and chirashi are both $12.95, so it's a $30+ meal with everyone wanting a bit more after the meal.
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