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The service was excellent and our smiling server was prompt, knowledgeable, and attentive. She was more than willing to answer any questions we had about the dishes. Also, watching her rapid-fire placement of the banchan on the table (so many!) was impressive.
The meal started with hot tea and an assortment of ten different banchan, including pickled daikon, potatoes in a sweetened sauce, a salad with seaweed, steamed egg custard, bean sprouts, spicy squash, seafood in a lightly spiced sauced, and several types of kimchi. They ranged from sweet to savory and included some pungent punches of garlic and heat.
We ordered the seafood pah jeon (seafood pancake), the kahm poong gi (spicy fried chicken), and gopdol bibimbap (mixed rice with vegetables in a hot stone pot). When I visit a restaurant for the first time, I tend to order dishes that are pretty standard just so that I can get a feel for the quality of the ingredients, the preparation, the spice level, etc., so this order wasn't really that adventurous.
The seafood pancake was bigger than my head and full of scallions and big pieces of tender octopus/squid. It was soft on the inside and crisp on the outside. It could have been a meal for two all on its own, but I'm not sad at all that we still have half of it left to snack on!
The spicy fried chicken was incredible. Sizable pieces of boneless fried chicken are tossed in a sweet and spicy sauce. I don't know if this is an Americanized version of a Korean dish or if it's really a standard Korean dish. I've never had it anywhere else and I know that some Asian places will cater to the American palate, but either way, I really enjoyed it. The chicken was piping hot, the coating was crisp and crunchy, and the sauce had just the right amount of spice to make me want to keep eating more. There were sliced scallions mixed throughout the sauce and they provided a nice savory-sweet onion bite. With this dish we also took about half of it home.
The bibimbap was exactly what I expected it to be, though I should have let the bottom crisp up a little longer before I mixed everything together. I love the crispy rice bits and it's my own fault that I didn't get as many as I wanted because the stone bowl was plenty hot enough! The gochujang served with it had a good flavor. Overall, I got what I expected with this dish and also took about half of it home.
After we finished what we could of our meal, two tiny Korean frozen yogurt drinks came with our check. They were a nice, sweet surprise to the end of our meal.
I cannot wait to come back to Seoul Garden. It exceeded my expectations, and, having just returned back to Ohio, I'm glad to have found good Korean food in the area. I look forward to trying the kalbi, bulgogi, and some of the casseroles in the future.
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