Lauren F.
Yelp
First time to dine-in | Delicious | Kpop playing
**I'd like to point out that this restaurant is NOT affiliated with the other restaurants in Portland, Salem, and Eugene, which have all made the news about wage theft. It is separate ownership! So, I don't know why other reviewers are mentioning this because that's untrue**
We've done take-out several times and decided to dine-in for the first time since my dad was visiting. I think we came at a great time because it wasn't so busy around 4:30pm! It noticeably picks up within the hour. Before you know it, a lot of families are seated. It's a popular spot!
We had a great time here. It was actually our first time even cooking our food at a restaurant--we loved it! The smaller and thinner slices of meat were cooked immediately, however, it took a little bit longer to cook the thicker bacon slices. The grill was hot though, so I think it is the type of cut.
For us, we were a family of 3 adults and 1 toddler, it was enough food we ordered. We ended up taking the noodle dish home.
What we ordered:
(Appetizer) Mandu -- crispy chicken and veggie dumplings (10 pcs)
BBQ Combo A -- Chadol Baegi + Samgyup Sal + Pork Bulgogi + Soybean Stew w/ steamed rice (serves 2-3 ppl)
Japchae -- sweet potato noodles w/beef and veggies
Bibimbap in the hot stone bowl
**Our dinner came with the banchan
Everything was delicious.
The chicken in our bbq was delicious and mild spicy level.
If this is your first time experiencing a Korean BBQ dinner experience like us, make sure you butter the grill first! We quickly learned we needed to do that after the fact and we felt a little embarrassed for creating so much smoke in the room. They have these heavy-duty fans above you to keep the smoke out, but sometimes they open the restaurant doors to quickly clear the air.
They have Kpop music videos playing while you eat. My daughter greatly loved that and pointed out every single BTS video that came on (yeah, she's little Army lol).
We had no problems with our service. The lady was nice and took care of us.
We will come back!