Banchan(side dish)s are all good. My favorite is rolled egg. Like mung bean jelly too.
Plenty of veggies. Half portion is good enough.
a close up of a pizza
a white plate of food
a bowl of food
grilled meat on a plate
a close up of a dish of food
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Menu 2023
ribs, food
food, pancakes
Doenjang guk soybean paste soup
Bean paste soup is so soothing and authentic. Like mom's soup.
Stir fried squid. Spicy but yum!
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Ssambap (meal for 2 adults)
열무국수 to go
Pork bulgogi. Yum! Smoky flavor. So good and big portion.
bbq ribs, ribs, food
food
chowder, soup, food, soups and chowder
food, pasta dish, pasta
Lim J.
Jul 13, 2023
I love their yeolmu guksu (열무국수)!Haven't been there there almost a decade.Good Korean authentic food.
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Joy K.
Sep 15, 2022
Very authentic Korean restaurant. Even it's better than many Korean restaurants in Korea. Very authentic! The portion is way big, and side dishes are all good. So happy to have this restaurant in San Jose. Please be there forever.
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Nathan H.
Jun 27, 2021
Really good spot. I would say 3.5 so I will pick 3 on Yelp. Overall, super authentic. I really enjoy the bulgogi here. Light flavor, but it reminds you of brisket too. The grilled pork was really good. All comfortable flavors. The short ribs had a good flavor, but I was not a fan of the texture.Pretty good soup. Boring though.Would come back. Satisfied.
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Tabitha Gail M.
Apr 23, 2019
Wow, I am so amazed by this place. It's definitely a hole-in-the-well restaurant, but the quality of the food is definitely 5 star. I absolutely love the self-serve banchan and they offer egg as an option!! I brought my 11 month old daughter with me and the waitresses were having so much fun with her. We had the galbi beef, seafood pancake, fried rice, jab chae, and the fried ramen noodles. All of them were so delicious! One of the best galbi beef & jab chae I had in awhile!
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Sunny T.
Dec 5, 2021
The food is always consistant and delicious. Great example of small local restaurant.
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Daniel K.
Jul 17, 2016
I can't say how much I appreciated the customer service at this restaurant. The waiters were friendly and took great care of us. We didn't make a reservation so, when we came in with 19 people for my friends birthday party, they were surprised. They first gave us the banchan (side dish) and the rice. They told us how just for service, they'll make a watermelon cake and fried chicken. They gave us a lot of food on top of what we ordered.I have been to many Korean restaurants in Korea Town and haven't been very satisfied by many. The quality of the food was a solid 8/10. The gamja tang was great, but the meat was slightly dry. The spicy pork was big and thick, making it a bit too much to chew.Their customer service was spot on... I can't thank them enough of how well they took care of us. I will definitely be back again.
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Sook Y.
Oct 7, 2022
I ordered a black goat stew for a take out today and was utterly amazed at how the service and the quality of food can decline so badly after being in business for over 30 years.I used to work in the area so myself and my colleagues frequented the place about 30 years ago. Even after moving to Fremont, I visited there time to time for the black goat stew with my family. My children would have others things. Now, they've grown, they would know how to appreciate them as well, but glad they are not in the area to experience what we did today. My husband and I drove out over one hour both ways to get the stew and it would have been worth the trouble if it tasted as good as it did before. However, the taste was off and was extremely bland. We came across only four bite size pieces of meat and the rest were all skin and fat. One of the reasons I'd go all the way there is because they used to give a lot of meat. I wouldn't have gone all the way there to get bland soup with goat skins. Also, they used to give a lot of vegetables like perilla leaves but today, after cooking, only three bites and there were no more vegetables. The side dishes were the worst. I'd feel ashamed to call them Korean food. The soy bean sprout was simply blanched with perhaps some salt. That is it: no hint of sesame oil or seeds or garlic. The potatoes are the same. It was blanched and has a hint of soy sauce and sugar water sprinkled on them. None of the side dishes exhibited effort but seemed as if to nonchalantly thrown together just for the sake of having some side dishes because after all, it is a Korean restaurant. Non-Koreans, please know that the side dishes there do not represent Korean sides well. The cost is $61 total for the stew, we spent over one hour driving and the gas is probably another $10. That much we looked forward to a stew that we once knew, but it is no longer. Either the owner or cook must have changed. No more, am I going to do this.
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Wang L.
May 28, 2023
I had dinner at this restaurant while traveling from Los Angeles to San Francisco A total of 34 people and a guide said, "We ordered beef bulgogi and grilled mackerel, but the food was terrible and all 34 people who went with us said they didn't want to go again."
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kelly b.
Jan 25, 2023
Causal authentic korean food. Very good, everything was delicious. The side dishes were abundant and had a nice variety of banchans.
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In-hyuck Y.
Jul 11, 2021
Don't understand Yetp's review. Maybe they didn't pay Yelp for for the true review score. this place is really authentic and good taste. The spicy pork grill reminds me of my favorite taxi driver's restaurant in Korea. Don't rely on Yelp's review
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