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| - This place was a good choice for us for Korean food. We chose this spot as we were walking around from queens west west enjoying Toronto downtown shopping during the July 2013 heat wave. The goal was to take a pit stop from walking around to eat in china town. I was about to have a heat stroke and had like 5 minutes left of walking in no AC before severe intervention was necessary. We were walking around feeling for the best AC breeze to waft out of a restaurant at us. I looked down, eyes blurred with sweat and double vision, knees buckling, and saw this sign taped to the door "food better than your momma made, if your momma was Korean" and I said "here. We eat now." we were sat immediately, and given glasses and a carafe of ice water. The carafe was gone before my boyfriend had a chance to look at the menu. Menu was easy to read, and pictures on the wall looked exactly like what you got so for a Korean food newb this would be a good place. We ordered a hot pot for me (ironic, seeing as I was recovering from heat exhaustion at the time) and my BF got beef bibibmap. The Sid dishes were good, a nice fresh Kim chi, a bean that I could not identify, hard and chewy, something pickled, and maybe pickled onion. We munched on this as my organs were reversing their shut down sequence in the blissfull air conditioning. I have only had Korean foods in Bethel, Alaska, where there is a surprisingly strong Korean community and something that I missed was friend anchovies as a sided dish, which this place sadly did not have. Once my head started to clear from being overheated, I noticed they were playing a song on continuous replay, it was a pop/dance song that may have been in Korean. Not a bad song, but it was on repeat, so not that cool. Our food came in hot pots which were bubbling and spattering all over the place filled with delicious food. Stayed hot for a while, heavy duty stoneware heated to at least 8000 degrees (in my humble estimate). In conclusion, good food, nice staff, no anchovies.
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