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| - This has got to be my favorite Asian BBQ place of all time. I came here for the second time for a close friend's birthday dinner and both me and the birthday girl left super full and happy!
The meat quality is the best here in my opinion compared to other bbq places like Chako. Rather than just beef, chicken, pork, or seafood, Gyubee actually offers different types of meat under each protein. The Beef section alone has different short ribs with different seasoning: house seasoning or black pepper. The beef tongue is also very tasty. My favorite to eat is their boneless short rib. Each piece is perfectly cut in thin slices of roughly 2*3 inch rectangles, easily cooked, easily enjoyable. You can see the beautiful marbling on each piece, and I get lots of satisfaction cooking them. Note that this boneless short rib is only available for dinner, but in my opinion this meat alone is worth it for the dinner price.
They have the standard soy sauce dipping sauce as well as a dry spice dip that on first look resembles the Japanese togarashi seven spice powder, but it also has a taste of cumin in it when I taste it. My favorite way of enjoying the meat is to dip it in soy sauce and then lightly dip in the dry spices.
Gyubee offers creme brulee as well as Melona ice cream bars (mango and honeydew) for dessert, which are all pricier and higher quality compared to the noname brand ice creams deserts offered at other AYCE sushi or BBQ places.
I was also quite pleasantly surprised by their cold noodle in the menu. It's listed together with bulgogi rice, and in the interest of not filling myself up with rice at an ayce BBQ place, I ordered the cold noodle to try. It comes in a miniature bowl with the basics of buckwheat cold noodle, kimchi and slice of boiled egg. I've got to say despite it's small size, the taste of these cold noodles is legit! Super refreshing with its cold sweet and sour broth, it was the better complement to BBQ meats compared to rice in my opinion. It also doesn't fill you up as much as a bowl of rice, so I can keep enjoying more grilled meats, which is a win-win for me.
This place is so popular they have a separate room near the entrance just for patrons sit while they're waiting for the next available table. Dinner times are especially busy, and seating time is limited to 2 hours. There's a 10% discount for any day of the week before 5pm, and a 12% gratuity is automatically calculated. The only thing I would suggest is for the restaurant is to staff more servers during busy times, as I had somewhat hard time flagging down a waitor when we wanted to order more food.
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