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| - First of all, menus are one of the most filthy items you can find in a restaurant but I was so pleasantly surprised to see separate bins for servers to place used menus and take clean menus!
Second of all, the place did not smell like bbq or smoke, unlike many other korean bbq locations.
In terms of food, the beef was decent, the pork was similar to what you can buy from galleria. Quality was not as good as the yakiniku niku places in Japan, but for the price and quantity of the meats given, I'd say it's a good deal, especially for lunch combos.
Took another star off due to the service. Everyone's nice, but there is room for improvement. And maybe I have a higher expectations because of having been to Japan plenty of times, and eaten at many restaurants, the Japanese servers take pride in their service.
1) The servers actually brought us the wrong meats. We ordered beef brisket, pork shoulder, marinated beef and kalbi. I didn't realize they brought us pork cheek jowl until I remembered one of the meats looking like pork jowl that we had once at a Korean bbq place. We asked the server to confirm the type of meat we were eating and they in fact gave us the wrong meat... but we already had some so we just left it the way it was.
2) The grill gets pretty dirty from burnt bits and overtime, that affects the taste of the meat and grilling experience. We asked the server to change the grill, she said that they don't offer to change the grill if you are only having the lunch combo and not AYCE but it was nice of her to change it anyway. Again, the grill should have and would have been changed in a Japanese yakiniku restaurant, no questions asked.
3) servers kept on speaking different chinese languages to us. We spoke English to them, and different servers just automatically asked us questions in Cantonese one time, then mandarin another time. I think it is helpful for those who speak the language but just because we look chinese don't assume we can speak either.
We will come back because this place definitely trumps other ones around town.
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