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| - Chris, the owner, is quite friendly. We were seated right by the door, and he tried to keep the door closer to the inside of the restaurant closed so that we wouldn't get chilly. He was also helpful when it came to recommending dishes for us to try. They also have a notice in their menu that says that says that all their sauces are home-made and are antiseptic free. I didn't even realize that non-home-made sauces contained antiseptic. Given that an antiseptic is a disinfectant, I don't know what their sauces being antiseptic free means...
Their tea (automatic drink) is very watery. It's more colored water than tea. On the upside, when I asked for cold water, I received cold tea (also watery).
Banchan (side dishes) were fairly plentiful (I like how they give you a slightly larger starting portion than most other places), but not enough in terms of varieties to impress me (I'm a fan of 6 and up).
Banchan:
Kimchi - slightly sweet, not too spicy, not too sour. I'm guessing fairly new. I'm no kimchi expert though.
Kimchi radish - not very spicy. Refreshing.
Soy sauce braised potatoes - and a chunk of carrot. Not bad, but I wish they were the caramelized sweet potatoes instead. Wish more Korean restaurants served those as banchan.
Sprouts - the red pepper covered ones. Not very spicy either.
Seaweed salad - not the wakame kind (the Japanese one that's a very bright green and looks kinda like jelly). Unroasted seaweed sheet kind. Slightly vinegary. Quite nice.
Mains:
Some combo with 2 kinds of soup and a row of beef short ribs - Comes with two bowls of rice. They threw in a third bowl cuz there were three of us. Had the gamjatang (pork bone soup) and it was good, but slightly unusual as well. The pork bones were super tender and fall off the bone (good), but the broth, while tasty, was almost like stew (quite thick) and had a lot more of a bean paste taste than I'm accustomed to for my pork bone soup. Soup #2 was a kimchi tofu soup of sorts, with pieces of pork in it. Tasty, spicy, and not quite so strong as the pork bone soup, but still good. The beef ribs had 3 1/2 bones (1/2 because one of them was really small and had next to no meat) and it had more fat than I would have liked (and less meat), but it was marinated really well. It would have been nice if it was slightly more tender as well, because I had some difficulty chewing it.
Seafood pancake ($14.99) - biggest seafood pancake I've ever seen. Decent amount of seafood. Loved the addition of the shredded zucchini. Crispy. Addictive. Usually, seafood pancake comes with a soy sauce for dipping. Here, they served it with what looked like a mound of red pepper powder with some liquid. It's actually vinegary and not really spicy at all. Slightly sweet. The sauce was fairly addictive and worked very well with the seafood pancake. Had I just had the seafood pancake, I would have probably given this place a 4 star rating.
If I come back, it'll be for the pancake.
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