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| - I thought Salt was in the East End?!
Spending a lot of time Korea the wife and I definitely like Japanese comfort food. There is no shortage of trendy Japanese places in Seoul and to mix t up we tried a bunch while living there. Teppanyaki has to be my favorite type of Japanese fare with the exception of maybe Yakitori.
Ok, now that I've established some prior knowledge I'll review the restaurant.
The place is small and gets pretty noisy, we had a group of 9 including 5 kindergarten age children sitting next to us. I swear this did not negatively sway my review, but I must say we did not enjoy sitting next to them. The decor didn't really remind me of Japan and is very minimalistic. We didn't get any alcohol sadly since the wife is pregnant (yeah considering that prior sentence funny huh). I got the Oolong iced tea, and was a little miffed that there weren't free refills. Another miff was that how our food was brought out. We ordered 2 appetizers, ramen, and okonomiyaki. The ramen came out first, then one appetizer, then the okonomiyaki, then the other appetizer?! Very strange and annoying.
Now the food.
Miso Ramen with pork - The noodles were good, but not the best I've had, chewy though, so good enough. The ramen comes with fish cake, scallions, bamboo shoots, and pork. The pork was really good, the bamboo shoots were very chewy and seemed canned and old. And now the broth, the most important part of ramen. It was really salty and didn't have much flavor other than salt. Sad really, because ramen can be SO incredibly good.
Butaniku no shogayaki - Grilled pork with ginger sauce and onions - This was decent, again too much salt, but good. The pork was lean and no dry. The onions were sweet and the sauce was full of flavor. I finished it, but needed a lot of tea and water to do so.
Bacon wrapped mochi - This was the show stealer. I'd go back just to order this. You get two nice sized chewy rice cakes wrapped in bacon drizzled with soy sauce reduction and sprinkled with nori. Very good dish, could have just used a little less .....SALT!
Okonomiyaki - The Japanese pancake that you kind of have to get if going to a Teppanyaki place. We got ours with pork, PORK OVERLOAD!!! It was good, I guess...not sure what else to say other than it was decent minus the salt yet again. The Bento flakes didn't taste fishy at all which was also disappointing.
I don't think my blood pressure could handle another visit anytime soon, so I think I will just buy Korean rice cakes and make the only dish I really enjoyed myself.
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