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| - Similar to one of the restaurants on Bayview that also is famous for serving big dumplings, I have to say that I am pretty impressed with this place. After going on a Thursday night, it was more full than we thought it would be coming from a restaurant that just opened recently. The restaurant is located at the plaza at Laureleaf and Steels w/ the Esso, Shoppers, LCBO, Second Cup, etc. It is on the left of the Nail salon that is there.
Although they have a small menu, the food was actually quite delicious and decently priced. With four of us, we ordered four different dishes. We ordered the mandu - big dumplings ($10.99); kalguksu - noodles ($9.99); dolsot bibimbap - stone pot rice ($11.99); meat pancake ($11.99?). Can't remember the name and exact price of the meat pancake.
All their food was actually fairly good, and for the record, I would definitely go back to this joint. Within the Bayview/Steeles area, there aren't a large number of Korean restaurants unless you head to the Yonge/Finch side. So this is definitely a win for me, and I'll be frequenting it often!
Their mandu was solid, filled with meat and delicious, they were large and came in 6 pieces per order. The noodles were regular, good broth, filling, they were chewy and enough for two people to share if there are other foods to share! The bibimbap was a win for me - they used purple rice for the stone pot, they gave gochujang and sesame oil and if you left the rice long enough, it actually formed a good rice crust at the bottom - which doesn't happen for many of the bibimbap dishes! And the meat pancake was quite good, a nice change from the seafood pancakes that are usually offered at restaurants (even though there is a seafood pancake offered for $17.99 I believe).
All in all, I WILL BE BACK.
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