Reviewing the comments for the restaurant, I feel it a pity to have so few comments for a restaurant with many dishes outperformed Myung-ga, while pricing at a relatively humble way. It drives me to rush a comment here, after my review on Myung-ga, Taikoo.
It is a unique restaurant opened several hears ago, with the hostess leading local.ladies at 40 to 55, and a restaurant at size and location shamelessly less comparable to the elegant chained stores, especially those with high localization fast-food Korean restaurants.
It serves take-aways and dine-in simultaneously months after it was established. Such a practice would not be accomplished without high discipline and diligence contributed by the store owner with family-size operation chips in hands. And that virtue, I would say, is true spirit of the Korean population, who manage to proce themselves even as immigrants here aboard.
The starters are key reasons it remains top of my list on Korean restaurants. Many starters and kimchi in lcoal Korean restaurants lack significance as they are originated from household level of preparation, which would cater to tastebuds of the family, and thus carrying a profound sense of patience and love in them. They are exactly qualities we can’t find from chained stores or fast-food type with massive production as their "secret" recipe of success.
The kimchi, or to put it more familiarly, the starters here are a perfect mingle of sesame oil, salt and sugar. Those we can get from supermarket with baragin prices or the ones prepared by chained stores are heavily immersed in brine, and can taste bitterly salty at times. KoreaMaMa is never relates to excessive salty taste. Its sweetened potato pieces are amazingly unique and delicious.
Of course, it is not flawless. Sometimes certain dishes could be too predorminated by the hot seasoning that they would lose their characters, and appear as no difference to preparing instant dishes with a hint of standard Korean seasoning. E.g. the stir-fried rice. While at times, you would find so.e dishes resemble so much of local Chinese cuisine that it’s hard to resist them, e.g. bolded pig feet, spicy beef intestine hot pot, and beef short ribs soup with rice.
Sets are offered for newcomers who may feel hestitated to make a decision on so many choices unusual to local Korean restaurants. It would enable one to try essence and hot picks like rice with ginseng and chicken soup, sizzling assorted BBQ meat, stir-fried vermicelli, hot sticky rice cakes in Korean style, stone pot rice, and spicy noodles. It costs from about $100/ lunch set during weekdays, while about $200/dinner set thoroughout the week. No additional charges are required and thus it charges ZERO for its services, including the Korean ong-ma’s friendly smile.
Special dishes vary from spicy fried cuttlefish /octopus ($88/98) with vegetables, kimchi & pork pancake, spicy kimchi & dumplings hot pot, sushi rolls in Korean style, seasoned anchovy and beverages imported from S. Korea.
It’s like a treat by a friendly Korean family, who may even offer you a bronze teapot for warming rice alcohol.
With its physical restriction, it could be cramped if I failed to secure a "cart" seat. I learned to avoid peak hours from 7:15pm, and for lunch, from 12:30pm to 2:30pm. And for the rest of time slots, if it isn’t a particularly festive holiday, I’m good with the seating and time lining for one.
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