Along Zamia Street is a little strip of Korean restaurants, grocery stores and bakery. I had recently seen that there was a new opening that had quite an impressive stack of meaty korean hot pots that have been on my online feed. We checked it out last Thursday night for some dinner after a fairly hard day's work.
We took out one of the last tables that night and it was very busy. The menu was not all that extensive and the focus was evidently on hot pot style dishes, both for sharing and individual consumption. Compared to other Korean restaurants, their share pots did not come with rice on the side.
On complimentary sides, there was pickled raddish and kimchi. These tasted fairly standard and I was a little disappointed to not be provided with a tofu dish or a pasta dish.
Usually rice doesn't get much of a mention, but we ordered a side of rice to go with our stew and rather than being provided a bowl of white rice, we were provided with purple five grain rice. Not having this for a long time, I was expecting a very coarse and dry bowl, but this was surprisingly smooth and not overly hard. Without looking at it, it didn't taste that far off from white rice.
Between the two of us, we had a medium pork stew to share. Coming out it was super impressive with a huge meaty stack in a giant bowl of enoki, veggies and noodles. We had to demolish the tower by pushing it down into the pot to make sure the pork was adequately heated. Although the pile was very dramatic, the actual quantity of meat in the dish was minimal. If I had to guess, over 90% of the pile consisted of pork spine and minimal amount of flesh that clung to it. The broth itself was tasty enough and the meat was quite tender, but when it takes over one hour to pick off the meat from the bone, it became a very tedious and one dimensional by the end. Although it looked really interesting in photos, this dish is not one that I would recommend for a small group. Might come back later to try other dishes but would not be in a rush.
Taste: 6/10
Value: 6/10
Service: 7/10
Environment: 6/10
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