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I saw a groupon for this place and decided to check it out. I'm from Southern CA where delicious Korean food are in abundance and I seriously did not have high expectations for this place so I'm surprised that I was still so disappointed. To be fair, I wanted to visit this place twice before I review and by the second time the korean music video that was constantly playing got really annoying.
1st visit: My overall opinion of the food is that there's every little substance and the portion is quite small for the price. I ordered the seafood tofu soup. There were 1 small shrimp, 1 clam, 1 mussel, and a 3 (I counted) pieces of octopus/squid floating around; the rest were tofu. The soup tasted very plain but super spicy. It was like they pre-boil everything, dump it in water and add a bunch of spice. My boyfriend ordered the galbi (short ribs) stone pot. The short ribs were delicious (too bad there were only a few pieces) but everything else was also plain (even after he dump in a bunch of sauce). The service was also very lacking. It's somewhat understandable because there was a party of about 60 people but it's annoying that our water was never refilled, we sat there for 5 min trying to flag down a server to get the check and in the end had to go to the front desk to pay.
2nd visit: We came back for the short ribs but this visit was even worst! A server sat us down and we asked for water. 3 min later, a second server came: we told her to get a plate of short rib started while we decided what our 2nd dish will be; again we asked for water. 10 min later, a THIRD server came: we ordered the the fried rice and for the THIRD time, water. A few minute later, server #3 came by (w/o water) looking confuse and ask us to repeat everything. They should really communicate with each other. Finally, food and water were served. The few tiny strips of short ribs that were brought out tasted nothing like what I had the first time! They were PLAIN! No flavor what so ever! The fried rice was super greasy and also no flavor (beside lot of sesame oil). We couldn't even finish it and the portion was small. When my boyfriend asked for more of one of side dishes to take with the leftovers he got denied.
For the price they charged, I expected a lot more! The portion, flavor, substance, and service were all very lacking.
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