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| - Arirang has always been our favourite Korean restaurant in Mississauga. It is close to home, the staff is always polite, the environment is pretty clean, the food is always of good quality, and I love their variety of banchan (side dishes). The other Korean restaurants in Mississauga that I have visited do not do banchan like Arirang does!
The service here may be a bit slow sometimes (when they are busy). I never have to wait for a table since I usually have early lunches (11-12pm) and dinners (5-6pm) so I cannot comment on how bad wait times can be.
This restaurant has all-you-can-eat BBQ, but we haven't tried it in almost a year. I remember it being pretty good, especially the LA ribs (you will walk out of there smelling like Korean BBQ), but for $20+tax for dinner on the weekend, we never bother because we are not big meat-eaters.
We have tried quite a few items off the menu but more recently, we tried their pork bone soup, soft tofu kimchi jjigae and dolsot bibimbap. Pork bone soup is always a bit messy but my family loves it. The soft tofu kimchi jjigae is amazing on a cold winter night and you are feeling rice instead of pho. Both of these soup dishes are always full of flavour; never too salty, never too spicy. The dolsot bibimbap is one of my favourite Korean dishes and it is pretty good at this restaurant. There are several different ingredients and sometimes, I even throw in some of the side dishes and mix it up some more.
The portions are pretty good for the price you pay. The above three dishes fed four of us at lunch, and it was perfect. I can finish one whole dish myself, but I would feel way too full afterwards. By the way, if you are hungry for spicy noodles and you like seafood, do try their jjambbong. It is always loaded with a lot of perfectly cooked noodles, some veggies and seafood, and it is full of flavour (gives you a bit of a kick!).
The competing Korean restaurant nearby is Owl but I find that restaurant is way too crowded, uncomfortable and the quality of their food is subpar. For about the same price, I always choose to sit comfortably and eat better at Arirang.
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