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i thought the main man was absolutely adorable. yes i may be a patronising idiot but he was so sweet and apologetic because they had one waitress missing and he said the service would be better next time, but i really thought the service was fine. i'm a sucker for a smile and would forgive him poor service issues if there were any.
i'm quite into chilled red wine now too. and the korean beer hite is very nice.
can't wait to go again!
The "main man" was very welcoming and helpful with a pram ( it was lunchtime ) and the food was lovely and reasonably priced. Definitely better quality and cheaper than the Japan Centre.
The man was very nice. He had me sit by the radiator to keep warm while I waited. He bought me tea and some sort of rice wine. He even put the food into two extra bags to keep it hot while I walked home.
Really, he couldn't have been nicer, which is why I'm sad to say that I probably won't be going back.
The food just wasn't that good.
To begin with, there was the ordering. I'm very familiar with Japanese food, but not Korean, so I asked the man to help me pick out a couple starters and mains. Unaesthetic is a vegetarian, and while I eat fish and seafood, I don't eat poultry or meat. I had to explain this several times because the dishes he recommended had beef in them. In the end, I got the seafood pancakes and some spicy squid dish. For unaesthetic, I got a spicy cabbage and tofu starter and a veggie version of some rice and beef dish. I can't remember the names of the dishes, and the receipt was in Korean.
The seafood pancakes were ok. The main ingredient seemed to be leeks. I'm not a fan of leeks. I don't think they were mentioned on the menu. The squid was a bit tough. The main flavour of the dish was the spice. That is not to say that it was too hot. It wasn't. There just weren't any other distinct flavours.
Unaesthetic enjoyed his starter, but the main rice dish was bland. It's hardly surprising because all they did was make a rice and beef dish without the beef. It would've have been better if they had substituted tofu for the beef.
The bill came to around £25.00, which isn't bad for that amount of food. But it's not cheaper than Hana. I prefer the food at Hana, plus they deliver.
-- that was a joke.
This is the problem I’ve discovered when ordering vegetarian food in south east Asia. Despite the amount of Buddhists over there, some places just don’t seem to get it, do they? You ask for a prawn dish without the prawns and you end up with prawns.
You asks for “no meat, no fish,” and (after the puzzled, frightened looks from the staff) you just get rice … with oyster sauce.
Coh! Bleeding foreigners and their authentic, family-run, classic non-veg cuisine –-
–- that was a joke too.
Funnily enough, I read recently that scientists have discovered chalk and cheese are, on a molecular level, identical. There’s no difference between them at all. Isn’t that fascinating?
Bizarrely, the same research uncovered that no two peas are the same in any way. It’s impossible to determine the chemical make up of peas because they are so different from each other. It’s really confusing. Apparently, peas are to each other now as chalk was previously to cheese.
As you can imagine this has had a profound impact on certain proverbials.
vegetarian food is only bland when it's made by non-vegetarians who rely chiefly on meat for the flavour. it's perfectly easy to make tasty food that's not based on the taste of meat.
as far as "substituting" tofu (and it's not evil, kids), it's more so that you get some protein in your bowl of rice, than for taste and texture.
oh, and i really did enjoy my spicy cabbage thing.
but what claim can a pickle have for ethnic minority status?
And tofu IS evil for it is written thus: “And I beheld a beast coming from the east and she had protein like a lamb, but was born of a bean, and she was without smell or flavour. And she deceiveth them that dwell in the west, saying that it was a good source of protein and that vegetarian food can be tasty. And in this time there was a great wailing and gnashing of teeth but no meat on which to chew, and then their fillings did fall out…”
So there. You can't argue with that. That's Jesus wot said them words.
I love that place.
I love this place since day one... unfortunately got really overcrowded because too good!