Tae Kyung Y.
Yelp
Gopchang Story is the newest Korean BBQ joint in Dallas/Carrollton, and I couldn't be happier! As an avid gopchang fan, I knew that I would love this place and Gopchang Story already has a great rep in the NJ/NY area, so I was more excited that they were finally opening one here! This place took a hot minute to open though because they were getting ready for opening for like.... literally a year.
They are still in the soft opening stages, but they have all the gopchang items, and if you're not a fan of intestines, you can of course still get your favorite non-exotic KBBQ food items. We visited on a Friday evening and we got there early, but we were pretty much the last party to be sat before a wait began.
We ordered the all-inclusive for 2, which comes with gopchang (small intestines), daechang (large intestines), makchang and liver. It was $29.99 per serving, so it wasn't too bad as food prices are hiking. We were served our banchan pretty quickly, and the banchan array comes with seasoned chives, potato salad, pickled onions. It was honestly a pretty weak side dish assortment, but it wasn't too bad.
The only dipping sauce we got was their signature sauce. Was kinda disappointed that they didn't have anything else, and they didn't have the soy powder either... which is a MUST with gopchang!
We got our food pretty quickly - the grill comes out to you and the meats come out half cooked. The main reason for that is because intestines actually take an INSANELY long time to cook so they probably cook half of it in the kitchen. All of our meat was topped with shredded scallions.
The servers pretty much cook/flip your meat for you, but I don't know if it was because they just opened... but I like my intestines crispy and they served it way before it was at that stage. I ended up asking them to higher the heat so we can cook it to a crispy state.
The four meats that came out in the combo were all pretty good. It was actually really good, but this was when the lack of side dishes, sauce and the soy powder had a big impact. It was disappointing that you could pretty much only eat it with the chives and the scallions. Nothing else to garnish the intestines. But the meats itself tasted really good - it also comes with potatoes and a few rice cakes as well.
We ordered the fried rice at the end, which is $6 per person -- we also added cheese on top. The fried rice that they make for you is really good! But beware - they don't have meat in the fried rice, so make sure to leave a few pieces of meat because they'll chop that up for you and add it to the fried rice.
Overall -- it was a good experience. I understand that they're still in the opening phase and they'll make tweaks here and there. I will say - I had extremely high expectations for this place, but maybe because I just had such high expectations, I was let down a little. That doesn't mean at all I won't be back. The lack of an intestine/gopchang presence in DFW is real and I hope this is the beginning of something completely new.