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| - Coming from Atlanta (aka Korean food capital of the Southeast), I was shocked to learn how devoid of Korean restaurants the city of Charlotte is when I moved here.
My husband and I love Korean, but because Matthews is quite a drive from where we live, it took us some time to finally pay a visit to Pepero. We finally went for dinner yesterday.
The food was good - it's nothing fancy and certainly not the best Korean I've ever had, but it was reminiscent enough of Mom's home-cooked comfort Korean cuisine. I had the kimchi jjigae, which was pretty solid.
Pepero is most definitely NOT a restaurant you go to for the atmosphere. The entrance is on the side towards the building's rear, and it's surrounded by towers of boxes from food shipments. It pretty much just feels like you're eating in the middle of a small grocery store...which you technically are if you take away the wall dividing the restaurant from the store. In other words, no matter how much your crush loves Korean food, this is not the place for a first date, folks.
All in all, I would definitely go back if I was in the area, but I wouldn't drive all the way across town for it. Better start diving into some Korean cookbooks!
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