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| - Turns out this is the same place that I have been to after finding in it in CheapEats book few year back, the name did not register in my brain and after reading a few Korean lists I decided to give it a go, as it turned out a second go.
Needless to say that I wasn't wowed the first time around, hence is the lack of name recognition. This time I will definitely remember it but not for the food it serves as much as for the contingent of its customers. There was a large group of youngsters who were already beyond their drinking capacities when we walked in(I immediately remembered Karl R with his Irish-Korean comparison), who were later joined by an old white man in even better condition getting another beer as if he had not had enough already. He was so drunk that the amplitude of his swinging was easily 180 degrees from side to side.
So, among the yelling and cheering of the young group and inconsistent swivels of a drunken whitey we tried to enjoy the hand made noodle and dumpling soup as well as a beef hot pot. Neither of which was impressive enough to compensate for the atmosphere, the noddles are indeed tasty and have nice slurpiness factor, but the broth of both soups was lacking in flavor or better say brothiness, that's right, it felt more like hot water than a beef broth. The dumplings were so insanely huge, that eating them directly from the pot meant burning your mouth as they could not cool fast enough. Also the stuffing was not that fantastic at all. The banchan was ok and the petite dumpling on the house were nice. Both soups were around 7-8$ which is a steal for a huge portion they serve. IMHO, use only for lunch at your own discretion.
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