Samwon Garden Restaurant

We stopped in and while the exterior says dive the inside is very clean and well maintained. You can see the clean kitchen when you order. Tried the Gyoza, Sesame Chicken, Mongolian Beef and Sweet and Sour Chicken. The Sweet and Sour Chicken was good and so was the Sesame Chicken. The Goyza and the Mongolian Beef were outstanding. Especially the Mongolian Beef served on a crispy bed of rice noodles and the taste was full and balanced. Goyza was perfectly done and no taste of oil and served in a little boat with the sauce (mmm ginger). No kids menu but order and share. Order extra Nd take some home!Service: excellent, slight wait as food is made if it's busy (and it is busy at times)Cleanliness: Very cleanKids menu: noMyFitnessPal: noRestroom: yes but only use if you need. Very clean but you need to ask as it is around back in the kitchen

It has been a while since I have been here. Decided to come here for a quick dinner.They have Teriyaki and Chinese wok style cuisine, as well as Korean food. The Korean food is listed in Korean...so unless you ask questions, you may not know what you're ordering.In the past I have tried the Bulgogi, which is good and comes with banchan--but a little pricey.This time around we chose Mongolian Beef and Teriyaki Chicken with Gyoza.The Mongolian Beef was not good. I didn't care for the sauce, the meat was chewy, and the styrofoam noodles were rancid--and there were a lot of them! The actual portion size was pretty small.The salad on the plate with the Teriyaki and Gyoza was big chunk of lettuce with a giant glob of dressing--pretty unappealing.Service was mediocre. There were flies buzzing around as we ate.I think we are the only Americans in here right now. Pretty busy for dinner.Not really sure that we would return, better places in the area. Overall 2.5 rating.

Came here because I love soondae and Seattle doesn't have a decent place. The reviews said the soondae was the best they've had so we decided to give here a try. The price was good compared to Seattle prices but compared to other Tacoma prices, it's average. I got soondae soup with soondae only. The soup broth was decent but the soondae itself tasted very stale like thawed from freezer... which honestly was so weird because I saw them making fresh soondae. In addition, there was literally nothing in my soup other than little bit of green onions and couple pieces of soondae. I was super duper disappointed!!! Soondae has been one of my absolute FAVORITE Korean street food as long as I can remember. I've had soondae from just about every single Seattle area restaurant. I have not found a restaurant that has really good soondae Since other reviews brag about how good their soondae is, I would be willing to give them one more try before I completely dismiss their food. If their soondae is good the second time, then I will change their rating and make edit to this review. This might be a while since I do not plan on driving down to Tacoma out of my way to try here.

Teriyaki joints are saturated w/ Korean owned businesses. I was only interested in the Korean food he had to offer. I ended up ordering Soondae (Blood sausage pork blood with cellophane noodles and glutinous rice) and Spicy Pork Bulgogi (Pork, Onion & Spicy.) The ugly looking establishment exceeded my expectations as far as their quality of food! Recommended.ThanksBlake

Food was Delicious! Had the kalbi beef. Very clean! It's definitely one of those hidden gems that from the outside doesn't look like anything. Service was very nice.

This place is unassuming but delicious! Don't trust the menus online, they've since updated their prices and eliminated the lunch specials. :(Otherwise, the staff is kind and friendly, and the food is very good!We called in an order to-go, but I did spy ban-chan on a table, so I would like to come back and dine in!

Was craving Beef Bulgogi so grabbed some for takeout. I was pleasantly surprised to receive 3 side dishes of kimchi along with it! It was flavorful and such a large portion that I still have half of it for lunch tomorrow. I'll admit it wasn't as smokey as if you dined in but the flavors were all yummy. Try this place if you haven't!

Friend recommended this place for the authentic taste. The flavors were delicious but there were a few things that bummed me out. They didn't have the traditional coarse salt and only take salt. The service was also not that great. I'm used to most Korean restaurants that come to check up on you.

레이크우드/타코마에서 모둠 순대국밥을 먹을 수 있는 것 자체만으로도 항상 감사하게 생각합니다.The fact that I can even have a hot boiling bowl of modeum soondae gukbap (Korean style blood sausage soup and all other mixed pig parts, such as pig's head meat with scalding white rice) in occupied Turtle Island makes me very grateful.The milky-white soup tasted quite clean and was not as gamy or meaty as other soondae gukbaps I've experienced. There was a generous serving of both chopped up soondae and pork. The gukbap also included three types of kimchi, and as someone with a sensitive tongue who reacts poorly to Korean meals that include too much msg, I appreciated Samwon's usage of minimal msg!!!I hope Samwon serves salted shrimp with their gukbaps, and I recommend trying their soondae plate and teriyaki~!

I used to go here once or twice a week for the soondae gook or sullungtang. Banchan is not as good nor plentiful as other local places. But the soup is good. Then why the one star review?I haven't been there in over a year. Here's why - a Korean place should NEVER charges for extra rice - particularly to someone who frequents your business once or twice a week. So you got your extra $2. But you will not get my business again. Plenty of other places to eat in Lakewood