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| - Giving Yori Q a 4/5 rating with a caveat to be explained later. Suffice it to say with one exception, the food was excellent and I'll definitely be returning often to eat here. Review is based upon taste, service, and value metrics.
First taste. We ordered a boodae jungol, corn pahjun, egg jjim, and some spicy dahk bbq stuff.
I'm going to go ahead and mention the "exception" mentioned earlier. Anything on their menu which is a hot plate or whatever, with spicy bulgogi, pork or chicken... I would stay away from all of those items. Our dahk bbq hot dish thing was an abomination. The chicken was not cleaned, so we were eating huge pieces of fat, unrendered skin. And on top of that, they cooked the chicken, but they did not get rid of the grisly cooked chicken blood. It should be a standard practice to clean the chicken, and once its cooked to skim off any grisly cooked blood so that the customer isn't eating that. But every mouthful of it is either fat and skin, paired with a goopy, and grisly cooked chicken blood consistency. It was basically inedible. I'll go ahead and throw in the value aspect of these dishes as well. At the 14 dollar price point, everything in that section of the menu is the biggest rip off. Portion size did not at all justify the price point, paired with the horrible blandness, fat, unrendered skin, and grisly chicken blood... if I could give a 0/5 on the basis of this dish alone I would. But the fact of the matter is, everything in that submenu of hot dishes is a complete rip off, and until they double the portion sizes of all of those dishes, and remedy their preparation issues, I would stay far away from all of those items.
NOW, with that horrible exception out of the way... the good news is, the corn pahjun, egg jjim, and all of the ban chan they gave us was absolutely perfect and excellent. The Corn pahjun, where it looked WAY overdressed and oversauced, it was actually quite balanced. A little more acid in the sauce would have been nice, but it was delicious nonetheless. The egg jjim was more or less a test of execution of a classic ban chan, which they did well. It was delicious and well prepared. The boodae jungol was also quite excellent. I think my defacto standard for boodae jungol is at san soo gab san in Chicago. And on the basis of taste, Yori Q's interpretation of it was right on par. It was just enough spicy. They did put a bunch of "cheap meat" in it like spam, and hotdogs, and didn't put any premium meat in it, like chadulbaegee, and put VERY LITTLE samgyepsahl, so it didn't really meet expectations as far as ingredients both in protein and veggies, but it at least tasted good.
So aside from the exception that is that dahk bbq, (which should get a -50 out of 5), I will give the rest of the meal a 5/5. Very delicious.
Service. Service was great. A guy named Andrew was our server. He was excellent, warranting a giant tip. If you go to Yori Q, request that Andrew be your server, he was excellent, knowledgeable, and friendly. He will no doubt make your dining experience improve on his demeanor, and excellence as a server alone. In general the food was ordered, and came out in a short time. Our server was attentive, refilling our drinks and ban chan, and being receptive to our comments on the food. 5/5 easily on service.
Some things they could have done better with our boodae jungol is to cut the ramen noodles, and provided a better array of veggies, and premium meats in it. The extremely long ramen noodles made it impossible to serve out the boodae into smaller cups without lifting your arm 5 feet above the wok, all the while hot boodae juice is falling and splashing all over your clothes.
Value. So again, with the hot dishes as an exception, meaning the dahk bbq we got, and every other item in that submenu, I easily give Yori Q a 5/5 on value. Though I will say, if they do not correct the portion sizes and preparation problems with those dishes the next time we go, their overall rating will drop on this review to a 2/5. But the boodae jungol was reasonably priced since it was delicious, and the appetizers were not terribly overpriced. Even with the horrible dahk bbq, our ticket was $52 before tip, which, if you remove the dahk bbq from the equation, it was very reasonable. So again, aside from the hot dishes, bbq dishes sub menu, Yori Q gets a 5/5 on value.
All in all a 4/5 experience I think. They will get repeat business from us. And we'll see if they lower the prices on the hot dishes, double the portion sizes, and correct the preparation issues. Hopefully I won't be coming back to this review and stamping a 2/5 stars on it. All things considered, Yori Q is a good place to go, just be sure you ask people what to get before you go, lest you end up with a mouth full of creamy cooked chicken blood, unrendered chicken skin, and chicken fat to eat with your rice.
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