"8"^^ . "Food: 4/5\nAtmosphere: 4/5\nService: 3.5/5\nOverall experience: 4/5\n\n(1- Terrible; 3- decent; 5- Fantastic)\n\nGreat Korean food here! My bf and I have been here plenty of times for lunch and dinner. Their menu is small so we've tried most of their foods.\n\nWhen you walk in, the place is very simple, clean, and casual. Unlike Korean restaurants like Seoul, Koreana, and Dae Jang Geum there are no vents over the tables or built in burners in the tables. The crowd is mixed, usually Koreans like to come here. When it's busy and only a few servers are working, the service can be quite slow and really bad... but the food makes up for it. However, when it's dead the servers are usually attentive, refilling our teapots and offering more sides if we wanted. \n\nI'll start with their amazing $9.99 lunch where you have a choice between beef, chicken, pork, or Kim-bab (Korean-style sushi). The meal comes with rice, mung bean cakes, kimchi, and jap-chae (Stir fried noodles with vegetables). What I love about this is the giant portion of food they give you and the ability to try different sides. The mung been cakes are always too salty for me but I still eat them. According to a friend it is one of their popular appetizers on their menu and i think it's one of the few Korean places that serves it. Their meat is really flavourful with the right amount of sweet, spicy, and salty. I suggest getting the beef or chicken with the lunch special. The pork is a little underwhelming in flavour. \n\nI love spicy foods, kimchi especially and I highly suggest you try the Kimchi-Jeongol hotpot ($25.99 hot n' spicy kimchi and pork stew) for 2 people which includes a plentiful amount of pork, kimchi, and a sidedish of rice cakes and onions to put in yourself. It's quite large and we always have trouble finishing it, but it's totally worth it. The soup has just the right amount of spice and the broth is very tasty. However when it begins to cooks down and thicken the broth can get super salty and you have to dilute it with water. Included is rice and a variety of side dishes. What I especially love about Sura is the vast amount of side dishes you can try such as Korean potato salad, bean sprouts, sweet mung beans, kimchi, korean cucumber pickles, sea plant, and pickled radishes. Sometimes they bring out new side items which you'll notice if you been here a few times.\n\nI also tried the Gam-Ja-Tang hotpot ($28.99 fall off the bone pork and potatoes in savoury soup) which was alright, something nice to try if you don't like spicy foods. There was plenty of fall off the bone pork and the soup had a mild, salty, pork taste. Bulgoi (korean BBQ) is around $13-$15 which is served with lettuce and other condiments. It comes out in a hotplate and as mentioned before is often tasty with the exception to one time when I came with a large group of friends and the meat was bland. \n\nTheir Yuk-Gae-Jang ($11.99 spicy beef soup) was full of spicy beef flavor and I absolutely love their Soon-Tofu ($11.99 soft tofu and seafood soup) which has the perfect amount of spiciness and deep flavour. If only that was carried over to their JJam-Bbong ($11.99 spicy seafood noodle soup) which was quite mild and kind of watered down. There is however, plenty of noodles and seafood such as shrimp, squid, and mussels. \n\nIt wasn't until my friend mentioned trying the 'black noodles' that Koreans ate in dramas that I decided to try JJa Jang Myun ($10.99 pork and seafood in black bean sauce over a bed of noodles). There was plenty of noodles to share among 2-3 people and it had a nice black bean flavour to it. In the end we were left with a layer of black sauce with small pieces of pork on the bottom of the bowl.\n\nOverall, this is one of the best Korean restaurants in Calgary. The flavors in their food is fantastic (with the exception to a few items) and I highly recommend at least one visit. It's run by Koreans and many Koreans come here to eat here, so I guess they are doing something right. What I find really nice of them is that when you order a spicy dish they mention that it is spicy and ask if that is okay with you. This is nice for someone who doesn't like really spicy foods and who wants to adjust the taste of their dishes.\n\n*Recently came back to Sura (oct 2010) and they changed the look of their menus and increased the price of some of their things. Despite this, their food is still high quality and I will keep coming back!*"^^ . . "4"^^ . . . "0"^^ . "2010-09-04T00:00:00"^^ . "1"^^ .