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We had the steak, pork belly, and chicken. Meats were not good quality - steak was extremely chewy, and the pork belly had zero flavour; chicken was decent. One of my DCs informed me that in traditional Korean BBQ certain meats are served not marinated (neither the steak nor PB were marinated)...fine, but pork belly, even without marinade, should have flavour (fat IS flavour baby!), but it was literally tasteless; I stress this, not bland, but actually tasteless. The steak was chewy to the point of not being edible - granted we did overcook it a bit, but it shouldn't have rendered the meat inedible.
For the sides we ordered the soon tofu soup and seafood pancake, as well as a pork bone soup a la carte. All of these were good, albeit the soups a bit on the salty side.
We also ran into the extra charges for "wasted food". We argued that what we left cooked but uneaten was not edible, either it was like eating rubber or had no taste - we were not out to waste food; we didn't even cook all of the raw meats and didn't order second round. While arguing with him over why he should not be charging us for the "waste", the owner indicated that uncooked is not charged while cooked is. At this point I pointed out to him that once that food has been delivered to our table, the health code precludes him from serving it again to other customers, even if it had not been touched at tall. Asked him what he's going to do with the rest of the raw meats, and he said don't worry about it, I'll eat it myself. Wanted to point this out as the waste food policy seems to suggest that he may be reusing meats already served to prior customers. Could be unrelated, but at least two of us had stomachaches less than 30 minutes after leaving the restaurant.
Don't bother coming here. And if you still want to give it a try, do NOT go for the BBQ, AYCE or not.
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