Daffy D.
Yelp
Went here with family yesterday and found out there was an exchange of ownership while back, and after ordering the food the waitress brought out hot tea and kimchi or what they considered a kimchi.
Don't drink the tea!
It's not the Chinese Oolong tea but it tasted like boiled wood chip or bark and you can smell and taste the tree sap in the after taste!
The kimchi looked awful and tasted like something made from a Chinese factory that was shown on YouTube, it was soooooo gross.
We all ordered samsun-jjamppong's and pork-jjajangmyun's and samsun-jjajangmyun.
I was here recently by myself during or towards the end of pandemic as they were closed for very long time, and that was due to the previous owners going out of business at the beginning of the pandemic and these people purchased the business only at a fraction of the price.
After we all got our foods mine is always pork-jjajangmyun double portion size, it seemed okay but after the the first bite I had to spit it out!
The other family members did the same thing basically!
They changed the noodles and how the food was made!
We asked the waitress to make the jjamppong not spicy, they made it really spicy saying they don't take special requests anymore and just make it super spicy and they changed the noodles that tasted like 35% sugar, the 50% less vegetables in the jjamppong soup and just 2 pieces of everything, 2 small pieces of squid, 2 Manila clams, 2 shrimp, 2 pieces of bamboo shoots, 2 pieces of sliced carrots, 2 pieces of chopped Napa cabbage.
They did the same with the samsun-jjajangmyun just 2 pieces of the seafood ingredients and the sauce was not cooked the way it's supposed to be prepared!
Jjajangmyun sauce is made by sautéing oil with lots of diced yellow onions until it's cooked and adding the pork and using the choonjang which is the base for the sauce, a sauce made from black beans sautéed in the wok in high heat with cooked onions and vegetables with pork until the choonjang changes color, the constant stirring in the hot wok will change the hue of the sauce and that's when you remove it from heat and served with the noodles.
Their jjajangmyun sauce tasted like it was cook in a pot and not in a wok!
The noodles is a big disappointment!
The noodles tasted like "SUGAR" !
The old owners used to make their own using flour with baking soda/powder and potato starch, it made the noodles semi translucent and off white color when cooked and gave it an excellent chewy characteristic and had a good texture and taste, and also helped the digestive process after eating large quantities of noodles, they didn't hand toss the noodles but they used to press out the noodles using a press than boiling it, but the new owners noodles are sugar enriched "Udon" noodles!
Sweet & sour pork - we ordered this and we got a what seemed like a deep fried 80% breading and 20% meat ratio with a store bought sweet & sour sauce lightly drizzled on top with 2 pieces of carrots and 2 pieces of chopped Napa cabbage on the bottom of the plate!
We are Korean's and this restaurant had Korean versions of Chinese food in the past, now the new owners are and have made changes to how they are going to make and serve it their way, it's very sad to lose this place as my favorite restaurant!
I guess I will have to follow Mr & Mrs Tang who originally opened this restaurant, they own and operate a small restaurant next to ROSS on SE 82nd Ave in Clackamas serving mostly Korean food but I've heard that they are also selling their jjamppong and jjajangmyun too, I will be migrating my business there from now on!