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| - Makkal Chon is a homey, highly authentic Korean restaurant that serves up amazing food. At this time, I can easily say it is one of the best, if not the best Korean restaurant in the GTA. I haven't enjoyed Korean food to this degree nor have I eaten so much Korean food in one sitting before! It was that good.
First thing I notice is that this is a small and cozy restaurant and therefore there was only one waitress. We came on a weekday for lunch and it wasn't that busy. A common complaint was that the food took a while to come out and while that was partly true, it wasn't that bad/long. But I suppose that's because of the time we went.
We ordered the wrap combo A and the grilled fish (which is turbot). Each $30 and can easily fill two people, the sweetest part is that these meals included rice, soybean stews, and stuff like lettuce and greens for the wraps combo. And they don't skimp out on the amount they give you, as there was plenty of lettuce for the wraps. I can easily say this place has the best ssam I have had. You get your choice of two meats in the combo and we went with the grilled pork and bulgoggi.
You can definitely taste the quality here, and everything was so fresh and flavourful. You can tell they were delicately made just from how they look. The side dishes are phenomenal, no idea why the table beside us got oisobagi and we didnt... but every single one of them was great. Eggplant was my favourite. The grilled pork and bulgoggi were pretty standard but luckily they had some ssam sauce - very garlicky and soy bean paste based. Eating the ssam was a mess but a good mess! Sauce dripping everywhere, hands messy so try to eat that thing in one bite.
The turbot was massive and was delicate and flakey. The red pepper sauce complimented the grilled fish perfectly (although it can be pretty overpowering - so you might not want smother it all over and remove some before eating). Now if you happen to order ssam and the turbot as we did, I highly recommend eating the turbot as a ssam as it was phenomenal. But if you don't like fish..then don't try this.
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