The first time I went here...I came on a Friday night at 8pm - bad idea. It was packed and there was a waitlist. So on a whim, we came at 930pm on Monday (Halloween). When we first got there, it was half full - got seated right away. But surprisingly, by the time we left at 11pm - it was full house again - on a Monday night!!!! I guess they are just THAT busy - even their business hours are until 1am Mon-Thurs and 2am Fri/Sat.
Anyways, I felt like I was in ikea. Various designs of patterns and textures on the walls. There are booths, picnic style seating, tables made of large thick slabs of wood, light bulb pendents - all very modern and contemporary. Even the cutlery was in the shape of a shovel and pitchfork - really neat.
Very interesting menu - good variety of appies/shareables, entrees, and an extensive dessert menu which includes their massive towers of toast, assortment of fruit desserts, shaved ice, glutinous balls, bubble tea, and fruit shakes, and tea.
We ordered:
- fresh pineapple and coconut milkshake - this was so good, refreshing, light, cold - like a slush
- eel omurice - this was good. The egg was fluffy and sweet. There is rice inside the omelette. We felt there was too much terriyaki sauce - it was overpowering everything. For once - I felt that I needed more rice to cut the saltiness from the sauce. Ask for less sauce or sauce on the side
- spicy seafood bibimbap - not very spicy - the sauce tasted like soy sauce mixed with a lot of sambal olek garlic chili sauce. This was our least favourite, too much rice - not enough toppings
- golden mango dessert - this was 3 pieces of mango slices rolled in what seemed like an almond roll - at first, this dessert was very hard to eat bc the mango were frozen (seems canned) - but good after we came back to it bc we decided to eat the piping hot bibimbap instead
4stars bc:
- kinda had to wave down the server to take our order, get more sauce/water, and even get the bill
- food took long
- our entrees didnt both come out at once, and our golden mango dessert came in btw our entrees
- my friend got food poisoning at 0230am which I assume is from the seafood bibimbap bc he and I shared everything but I only ate the rice and eggs in the seafood bibimbap -- so he never wants to come back ever.
But I definitely would like to come back with a larger group of friends to order other things on the menu and try it all.