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| - I can understand the appeal of this place (cheap, comforting soup in the cold Toronto winter) but I have to say it's gone downhill in the few years that I hadn't visited.
The thing that appalled me was the amount of small fruit flies buzzing around our table. At first it was just one, trying to land on our side dishes, then more and more came, to the point were we had to stop our conversation or eating to wave them away. By the end of the meal, those little flies were basically walking around in the kimchi sauce, and I was too fed up to continue to defend my food. Seriously, how can this be a thing??
Second flaw was that my ideal image of soon tofu is when they rush it over to your table, the soup is hot and bubbling over the stone bowl. The egg that you crack on the soup would instantly cook itself and the gooey yolk would blend into the spicy goodness. The soup that came was not bubbling, it was still somewhat hot but it did not do a good job cooking the egg, I had to pretty violently stir it into the soup.
Thirdly, i got the seafood soon tofu, and there were two dried out shrimp too hard to get off the shell, one mussel and a couple of small shrunken oysters. Go to Galleria for their soup, there are squids and shrimps and mini cucumbers etc., sometimes there is almost an overload of seafood. Oh and the bubbling thing? Yes it does that.
The rice was also cold, and questionably pale for so called purple rice. The menu selection was not great since my friend who wanted noodles could not find anything of the kind. But whatever that would just be nitpicky.
Overall super not impressed. Will not come again until we actually have a food shortage and humans begin to eat bugs, at least I'll know where to find them easily.
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