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| - When you travel to Seoul, Korea, and find yourself missing a Korean restaurant back in Toronto, you know it has something special. This is my favourite place to get soon tofu thus far, with very good reason.
In terms of decor and general ambience, the restaurant doesn't provide you with anything particularly noteworthy. However, the staff are kind, the service is great, and the food is really what you're there for anyway. Right off the bat, remember to park in the back! I spent a solid chunk of my total visits paying for street parking, but there is room behind the restaurant. It's a tad inconvenient, but you must walk around to the front.
Now, let's get down to the food. The menu is limited but, as the name suggests, they're famous for their soon tofu. You can select from a variety of different types - dumpling, kimchi (my personal favourite), seafood, vegetable, etc. You may then select the level of spiciness. I'd avoid getting the "white" (no spice) option, because it seriously detracts from the soup's flavour. They provide you with several Korean side dishes to begin, and a small egg that you can crack into your soup later on. Upon delivery, your soup is in a clay pot, accompanied with a purple grain rice - one of my favourite aspects of the meal. The server will scoop the rice from a clay pot into a bowl, then fill the bowl with water, forming some sort of rice snack that people enjoy eating later. The texture of the tofu is to die for, and the soup is generally bursting with flavour.
From a price and value perspective, this place is great. Including tips and tax, the entire meal totals around $10 per person.
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