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| - It appears I've been slightly misled. I've seen the 1/2 price pork belly Tuesdays sign as I've driven past. I've read the reviews on Yelp. From Yelp, I found out that you have to buy a drink in order to get 1/2 price. However, I did not find out that it's only after 5pm that this deal is going on. These conditions all also apply to their pork shoulder. I came in at 1:45pm today. We thought we were going to get the deal. We did not. Sad times. It's $16.99 for 1 order of pork belly, if I recall correctly, and you have to do a minimum of two orders.
We split 2 orders between 3 people. The two orders came to 5 thick strips of pork served on a wooden board with two mushrooms and two full slices of onion. I'm not sure how 5 splits into two orders, but okay then. The pork BBQ came with side dishes, but didn't come with rice. That's an extra $2. Sides were quite pleasant though. We had a small skillet of cheese corn, a stone bowl of steamed egg, a stone bowl not quite full of soybean stew, kimchi, pickled radish, soy sauce potatoes, tofu with soy sauce, seaweed with hot sauce, and pickled cucumbers. I hope I'm not forgetting any. As dipping sauces, we were each given a trio of dips (hot sauce, roasted bean powder, salted sesame oil), and some sort of marinated raw onion and chive concoction. We were also given a small basket of lettuce leaves, seasoned soybean paste, and raw garlic slices. For a place called Ssam, I was expecting more from their veggie wraps.
The food's pretty good, but at $40 and a bit before tip, I'm not impressed. Perhaps it was a lunch thing, but there was only one server and he had to do everything. Our water cups weren't full much of the time. Still, if I get the same amount of food at the same quality for half that price after 5pm on Tuesdays, I'm coming back then.
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