Craved some Korean food after the movies so my friends and I opted to go here, since most of us were tired of Owls!
We got here around 10pm and it wasn't too busy - just a couple tables but the atmosphere was really homey! There was plenty of parking spots when I got there, but I can see it getting really busy during lunch rush given that it's located in the Mississauga Chinatown area.
For food, I ordered the pork kim chi stew. At Owls there is an option to add glass noodles in the stew, but at Sikgaek when I asked for the noodles the server actually told me straight up that it's weird LMAO!! But she still got the noodles in my stew for me so no hard feelings! I must say for $11 plus $5 for the noodles, I was disappointed. Portion was small and there was way too much glass noodles that it was absorbing all the stew!! I never had this problem at owls so I never thought to ask for a little bit of glass noodles only ... plus it's only $2 extra to add noodles at owls with a bigger stone pot.. there also was barely any pork. I only had 3-4 strips of meat tops in my bowl. Broth wise was ok, but honestly I prefer owls kim chi stew 10000x over Sikgaeks. I don't think I'll be ordering soups here in the future LOL
The star of the night was definitely the fried chicken!! Holy it was so good I don't even know where to start. We ordered the original fried chicken wth green onions and the spicy marinated one. The original with onions was my favourite, it was perfectly fried - crispy but not oily at all. Also tons of meat! The spicy marinated one is MEH.. it's more sweet than spicy, the kim chi was way spicier but its still good if you're into the sweeter flavours.
Service was really good too. Surprisingly the young servers knew English really well and was engaging and constantly checked up on us. I know that this is expected but there are a lot of places where servers will only take your orders, leave you alone for the rest of the night and is extremely hard to flag down.
I definitely recommend this place for their service and fried chicken I'm already excited to return to get their chicken again LOL