Erik S.
Yelp
This place lit me up! I mean that in so many ways.
It lit up my taste buds.
It lit up my heat-o-meter and I definitely felt it later.
It also lit up my wallet, because damn, was it expensive!
All in all, the food is a 5 here, so was the service of the young man working the counter. I understand things are always (needlessly) more expensive in these food halls because they are paying higher rent, but even by those already established knowns, it was a really pricey meal. In my case, I was on vacation, and taken on just how delicious things were... I would have gone again.
We got the handmade sweet and spicy noodles, a 12 piece order of pork dumplings, and the Chongqing spicy chicken. The stars of this were definitely the dumplings and the noodles. The doughy texture created by not using anything pre-made is extremely evident, and where I am from, there are actually not any places at all to get hand-pulled noodles, so this was a treat. We ended up dipping as much as we could in the sauce that surrounded these noodles, including the Chongqing chicken, which even by my high heat standard definitely lived up to the 3-pepper rating on the menu board! My wife and I both agreed, we would eat these often if we could access them at home, despite the high price.
The chicken was also really good, but I ended up eating it mostly alone. It was just too spicy for most at the table, and by eating it more of it myself, I paid the price later. In the end, I would not reorder this, mainly just because I'd want to try other things.
The Krog street market was neat, but I do hate how expensive these food halls make things. You would imagine there would be some economic gain to restaurants using a shared space like this, but since they are trendy, it makes it cost more.