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| - I should have written this review a few months back - that was the first and only time I've been here with a couple friends, and I was excited to try it out as my friend had hyped up the place. Even though this happened months ago, I still remember the experience vividly, so I'll write about it here.
I'll start with the best thing about this place, which also happens to be the only good thing in my experience: their fried chicken. Very good and crunchy - but honestly, pretty on par with other Korean fried chicken I've had, like at Cheers Chicken & Beers, and The Fry. There's not much you can mess up when it comes to fried chicken with sauce....
My table mate ordered the munk fish dish, which I got to try a few bites. I have to say, for that price ($40), it wasn't worth it at all to me. It tasted really mealy and simply put, not fresh.
We got a table where we sat cross-legged on the floor. I wasn't used to this and found it increasing uncomfortable as the night passed; my butt was getting sore and my legs and feet were getting numb, and since it was also the middle of winter, I had barely enough room to place my jacket and sit comfortably (the customers behind me took up a lot of space and their toddler kid kept climbing about). This put a huge damper on my dining experience... I will definitely be avoiding this type of seating in the future.
Another major sticking point was that the service was really subpar; this is the main driving force behind my 1-star review here. The servers were 1) not friendly, 2) difficult to flag down, and 3) even when we did flag them down they promptly forgot what we asked for. I get that they're a busy place, but it was annoying to have my glass stay empty for the majority of the meal all because the servers weren't making eye contact with any of us. I recall clearly that it took about an hour for us to finally get our take-away boxes and bill because my body was so uncomfortable squished up in that position for an hour longer than necessary. We had to ask 3 times before anything was done for us. Maybe we should've been more aggressive and yelled out our demands instead, rather than pressing the button, politely waiting for someone to address us, finally flagging down someone the conventional way and begging to get our boxes and bill? I mean, it was pretty noisy and crowded and disorienting in that din of people and food smoke... perhaps that's the only way to really get any service? I would've thought with the crowds they'd be more watchful of customers who want to leave already so that they can open up their tables faster, yikes.
And lastly, we discovered that we couldn't have separate bills among the 3 of us. This is a more minor point, but inflexibility like this combined with the other disappointing factors listed above made me resolve not to come back here, and also discourage friends from falling for their undeserved hype.
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