A personal blog detailing dining and eating experiences
Stopped by this Ramen place in Korea Town for a thanksgiving late lunch lunch.
Got the shoyu ramen (which means chicken broth apparently) with pork. Overall pretty good. I should’ve added an extra slice of pork though.
Also paired it with hot Sake. Can’t go wrong with that on a cold day.
Also, wanted to add that this place is a good for eating alone and working on your phone (the eating bar you can just order ramen, drinks, and sit there for a good amount of time on your phone).
Great ramen place, that would also be good for dining solo.
I got their house ramen, with a side of a pork belly bun. Also grabbed a warm sake. All terrific.
Great place to have hotpot. It’s AYCE for only $28, which includes drinks (like sake!) and also Karaoke (although admittedly the machine to search songs was terrible). Had a great time, and definitely going back.
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Checked out this ramen restaurant at the East Village.
This place is great for solo dining, as you can order and just sit at the bar (where you can also make some new friends).
I ordered the spicy beef ramen (had the chili sauce on the side so I could control the spicy ness), and the pork belly buns (which I actually thought was better than the ramen). Overall, really happy with this place.
And of course, I paired my meal with a glass of Sake.
Went to this place to try out some sushi. However, instead, I got beef bibimbap. Turns out this place is actually a fusion between Japanese and Korean. We also ordered some cold sake.
The bibimbap was alright (nothing special). I think if it was bulgogi I would’ve enjoyed it more. Next time I will try actual Japanese food from that place.
Update 1/27/2019: I actually ordered mainly Japanese food this time, and it was a good choice. We got the lion king roll, spider roll, chicken karaage, salmon sashimi, and potstickers. All were decent, and I wouldn’t mind getting them again.
So this restaurant was rated 2.8 on Yelp, which definitely caught my attention. However, it was the only Asian available restaurant close by (and Cyrene really wanted to try it out). In the end, I would give this place 3.5.
The interesting thing about this place is that it served both hot pot and K BBQ. So we got one of each. We got one seafood hot pot (sauce was spicy, but good, and the seafood in it was crabs, squid, scallops, tofu, and vegetables). Not sure if was worth the $50 price tag, but Cyrene really liked it. For the K BBQ we got the bulgogi (which I enjoyed more than the seafood).
Also, I guess it’s worth mentioning we got hot Sake to accompany the meal.
Overall, good food.
For drinks, I got a flight of sake (for next time, I would probably get the other flight that has the milky sake in it, which started with “No body’s …”). Of course, usually I can’t tell the difference between different sakes.
For the main we got the spicy garlic noodles with chicken (it wasn’t actually really spiced), the chubby fried chicken (which basically reminded me of chicken karaage), pork ribs (tasted good), and this salmon dish (which I think had some sort of cheese in the middle, which was also good).
First restaurant I’ve eaten at in San Carlos, and it was good (but not cheap).
To start, I got the Apprentice sake sampler. To be honest, I don’t think I actually noticed any difference between the three sakes (and I still like the cloudier ones better. These ones were all clear). I do like how it was presented, and the wooden cups did add to the experience (they were surprisingly light and added to the taste).
We got the sashimi salad, which is a great deal (since you get like 8 pieces of sashimi for $17, compared to an order of 8 pieces of sashimi, which costs $32).
We also tried the soft shell crab and chicken karaage (which was actually cooked just right – not too crispy. Perhaps its the batter they used that was good).
For the rolls, we got the Jalapeño Hamachi (it’s pretty simple, and probably a California roll is even more complex), and the Great balls of fire (this one was really good. It was temperature hot and spicy. It had panko crusted spicy tuna roll with spicy mayo, unagi sauce scallions & tobiko).
