Korean Food | My Story

Like Mom Korean Cafe @ Plaza Damas, Hartamas

Posted by aiwei | Posted on 18-01-2013

Category : Afternoon Tea, Cafe, Coffee, Hartamas, Korean Food, Kuala Lumpur

Like Mom is a cute Korean café, run by a pair of friendly Korean couple; offering gourmet coffee, homemade bread and pastries. The décor inside the café is simple but homey, with beautiful decorative tea cups all over the café (I almost wanted to spend on the tea cups). The ingredients they used in the cooking and baking are natural and free from preservatives. Freshly roasted coffee beans are imported from Korea on weekly basis. I would say, they cook the meals with sincere hearts. Contunue Reading

Namoo on the Park @ Publika

Posted by aiwei | Posted on 21-08-2012

Category : Afternoon Tea, Cafe, Desserts, High Tea, Korean Food, Kuala Lumpur

Okay, I am so out, really outdated type. My friends asked if I know about the Gangnam Style which was really a hit lately?!

My answer: I have no idea at all! *lost in touch with connection for days resulted this*

Under the influences of K-pop culture, Namoo on the park is nowadays hot topic too, I guess?! Contunue Reading

Hong Park Sa Korean Restaurant @ Ampang

Posted by aiwei | Posted on 22-02-2012

Category : Ampang, BBQ, Featured, Korean Food

Korean food is not just about kimchi, bibimbap, tteokbokki, and Korean barbeque. There are actually more than those – such as Dak Galbi and Samgyetang, these are also the popular dishes among the Koreans.

Samgyetang or literally translates as “ginseng chicken soup” is one of the specialties in Hong Park Sa, an authentic Korean restaurant that is located in the Ampang. Normally, Koreans consume this traditional dish in the summer for its nutrients, which is to replenish the energy and excessive sweating during the hot summers.

Just like the usual Korean restaurants, we were served with a variety of banchan before the main courses. The kimchi is served in a huge pot; just slice them into pieces – big or small based on your preference with the pair of scissors provided. Contunue Reading

Uncle Jang Korean Restaurant @ Ampang

Posted by aiwei | Posted on 13-10-2011

Category : Ampang, Korean Food

Remember I told you guys I had a fiery dinner before the “monopoly mission” in Nabe Bakery?!

Thanks to Chris who discovered this restaurant from Uncle Jang‘s Facebook page. Together with kampungboycitygal, we were brought for an interesting but fiery dinner. haha…

Uncle Jang serves Dak Galbi (닭갈비); which is originated from Chun Cheon, Gangwon province. It is a popular south Korea dish that made by stir-frying the marinated diced chicken in Korean chilli paste (gochujang) based sauce, sliced cabbage, sweet potatoes, scallions, onions and tteok (rice cake) on a hot plate. In Korea, their Dak Galbi also includes cheese and ham.

Besides Dak Galbi, Uncle Jang also serves Samgyetang (ginseng chicken soup), Dakgyetang (kimchi chicken soup with rice) and Pork cutlet too.

We were there very early, that was why there was no sight of people. However, during the dinner time, the restaurant was crowded and almost 80% were the Koreans. One can choose to sit on the floor or chair and you will be served promptly.

Simple bilingual menu on the wall.

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Korean BBQ Seoul Garden @ Kuchai Entrepeuners Park

Posted by aiwei | Posted on 23-04-2010

Category : Korean Food, Kuchai Lama

I love Fridays, always, as i get to hang out with my Makan Kaki for some real food and chilling out after some tough weekdays.

Kuchai Entrepreneur Park for its well known blooming food hub has now become our choice for food exploring.

We chose to have some Korean delights, fix our tummies with some sourish kick kimchi, DdukBboggi and some grilled meat! Therefore, we had our dinner at Seoul Garden.

The variety of Ban Chan with unlimited refills. Contunue Reading

Chego @ Sunway Pyramid

Posted by aiwei | Posted on 17-06-2008

Category : Birthday, Celebration/Event, Food, Korean Food

This was the time when we celebrated my best-ie, WenChing’s birthday monthsss ago (sorry bout the delay). As there are quite a lot of new ‘hang-out’shops in Sunway Pyramid, we chose to have a small lunch celebration here.

Chego, the Korean BBQ restaurant is newly opened and situated at lower ground of new area in Sunway Pyramid. Newly opened ma (at that time), let’s have a try lor. But this was not a pleasant experience for us.

We chose the side table where no shoes were allowed on the sitting area.

The Environment was full with sense of Korea. Contunue Reading

The Farewell for Her ~

Posted by aiwei | Posted on 06-06-2008

Category : BBQ, Food, Korean Food

7 is an odd number.
7 is someone’s lucky number.
There are 7 days in a week

But, how can 3 + 1 = 7?!
Initially, 3 + 1 = 4
But I can make 3 + 1 = 7
We can make 3 + 1 = 7.

3 couples + me = 7
(Me, Chris & Christine, KampungboyCitygal, Sugar Bean)

That’s us; the 7 of us had a small little farewell gathering for Christine at Daorae Korean BBQ Restaurant (다오래). We spent the whole evening until all the customers left the restaurant.
As usual, we were the last to leave.

7 of us at a long dining table with 2 BBQ (not pit but) pan.
Daorae serves a wide variety of Korean dishes which made our citygal dunno what to choose. And finally… we had……..

Vege to wrap up the BBQ-ed meat.

A variety of sauces — the fragrant sesame oil, sweet soy sauce, and also the feremented bean sauce…

Honestly, our dining table started to get a little ‘busy and messy’ with all the side dishes and dishes placed on it.

Part of the side dishes. There were a lot more, but I could manage these much.

I like this the most but they said this was extremely sour for them. Hence, I sapu all.

Seaweed

Another side dish I like, The radish cubes.

The complimentary seaweed soup.

Gal-bi-tang which was the popular favorite mild and light beef rib soup served with rice. As for the taste, you have to ask those who can take beef — all but not me and WenChing. From what they said, it was warm, it was nice and it tasted just right that could really soothe their empty stomachs!

I am a little blurry here and don’t know which is which now.

Sam-kyub-sal which was the thin slices of belly pork without marinade, served with seasoned sesame oil sauce.

Daeji Gal-bi, the choice pork ribs specially hand filleted, marinated in the house’s special sweet soy sauce

Dak-gal-bi, the lean skinless chicken fillets marinated in their hot chili sauce.

Yang-nyum Yang-go-gi came with choices of cuts lamb specially hand filleted, marianated in their house’s special sweet soy sauce. I adored it a lot! Yum~

Kimchi-jeon, the spicy, savory pancake comprising of kimchi tossed in light butter, pan fried to perfection. However, it was a little too thick and too floury for me.

Pa-jeon for us. It was very good in the thin slices and tasted great with the dipping sauce.

Kimchi Kong Na Mul Guk, the kimchi and bean sprout in dried Pollack meat soup served with rice. It was light and neither oily nor greasy. This is best for someone who doesn’t want their stomach to be burden up.