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| - So I'm not a HUGE Korean food fan, but my wife wanted something spicy. She is Japanese and we mostly eat Japanese food, however as most of you know, Japanese don't typically make spicy food. Even if they do, they don't make it like Koreans... Soooo, let's do it - Q bistro.
It's in a typical China town kinda parking lot. That means it's wall to wall restaurants and you circle 3 times to find an open space. At first we were like uhhhhh, as we aren't from here and thought we were lost. We wanted dinner. We see a Q karaoke... A Q pool hall, a freaking Q hair salon... So I'm like
A: ummm we need to find a different place to eat. We've been mislead.
B: whoever Q is, is a baller. Dude owns a lot.
WAIT!!! There it is... Tucked away between Q karaoke and the salon. Ok cool, let's go in.
Whooooooooo, this place looks trendy and so clean. Fancy looking too I'm like oh man we are under dressed... Until we see the staff. They weren't dressed inappropriately, just saying same as us. Jeans and t shirt kinda thing... But this place LOOKS so nice that you could wear nicer clothes, a shirt and tie, dress and heals, would not look out of place. The environment is pretty cool. I really enjoyed that. It's like you're in a high end spot, paying low end prices. True definition of ballin on a budget. Guys wanna make that girl you're dating THINK you are stacked when you ain't? Take her here. She'll find out eventually, but not before dinner lol.
Menu was huge for a bistro. Like 8 pages from apps to zerts... Mix of everything. Mostly Korean, but they still had cheese sticks, pizza, etc... But again, mostly Korean.
With 15% tip we still came in UNDER $40. Which is pretty reasonable.
We had:
Croquette
Cheese sticks
Spicy short rib
Rice
Spicy ramen
Inarizushi
Coke
Water
5 lil dishes that always come with everything you order in Korea lol. Never know what they are but the normal lil kimchi stuff.
The inarizushi is freaking huge, it's damn near a meal in itself. The spicy ribs were delicious, tender, and had few pieces of doppoki with it. Nice touch. Cheese sticks were exactly as if you're at like Applebee's not amazing but it's Korean place, I WOULD be the retard or I expected jaw dropping cheese sticks here lol. The croquette had cheese in it... BONUS! We had no idea how BIG the servings were.. We ordered and received all that food, could barely finish half of it, left 15%, still under $40.
So had we known how much (or rather how large) the portions were... We'd probably only spent about $25.... Well, not really. We'd still spent $40 but would've had dessert lol.
Big time drink menu too. I don't drink though, but if I did they had it all.
The food was good, seriously... But the biggest take away I have is how nice and upscale these place seems with how low it's cost is... It's kinda cool. The girl that was our server was from Vietnam... But we don't care. We from Okinawa... So it's whatever. I'm only saying so because in my reviews of Japanese places I always mention of they people are actually Japanese... There were Koreans in there, but again, we don't know the difference in real Korean food (although because of work I've lived in Gwangju and Daegu Korea for 2 yrs)... So it didn't matter to us that she wasn't Korean. Besides, I ordered cheese sticks lol... So really I guess I should've been looking for an Italian chef huh?! FuuuhhGetAboutIt
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