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| - We ended up here one night when the kids were at their friend's place and we were supposed to be grocery shopping near home in Markham. I convinced my husband to drive all the way from Markham in the opposite direction from home and our original destination to go to the Galleria Supermarket (who *doesn't* do date night in a Korean supermarket???). On the way there, I saw the sign for Cho Sun Ok and recalled favourable reviews so we made another last minute change of plans and stopped here. It's not often we get to try new places when the kids are with us. Parking is tight here but we managed to find a spot. We were seated fairly quickly only because someone had just left. It was a full house. My husband immediately targeted the pork bone soup with steamed mandu. I had the Doenjang Jjigae as I'm a sucker for any stew with tofu. The banchan is so good (except the ?fruit and potato salad? which we did try but just wasn't our thing). The korean green peppers, I had to get seconds. There was spicy radish or turnip, kimchi, a daikon salad (I'm guessing), eggplant and sprouts - all were good. The staff comes around and offer you refills.
Steamed dumplings - good, they come with a nice dipping sauce but we put ours in the bubbling bowls of broth
Pork Bone Soup - my husband just loves Gamjatang and this one bubbled to the top of his list of favourites. Spicy, rich, generous portion with a bowl of purple rice - thumbs up
Doenjang Jjigae - slightly salty for my palate but still very good, a one pepper level spice, nice soft cubes of tofu, beef, veg, broth perfect to eat with rice - also thumbs up
In total incl tip for two was $40 and we tipped well.
I picked price range of $$ to include appetizers.
One star off because it's pretty drafty in there which you really notice in the winter.
Next time: Kimchi Jjim, for sure
FYI - we never did make it to the Galleria
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