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2013-04-05
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I don’t frequent korean restaurants much these days. My family mostly prefer the Japanese-style korean barbeque yakiniku restaurants. One of our favourite yakiniku place is Aburiya. We used also to go to Chang & Hyangtogol but find them rather expensive. Though we all like banchan, those very nice free & refillabe korean side dishes, but they cannot be our sole motivation for having korean.Sarang at Orchard Central served a very small banchan, comprising just peanuts (which was very nice & we du
Sarang at Orchard Central served a very small banchan, comprising just peanuts (which was very nice & we duly had our free refill of peanuts), and the usual cabbage kimchi & another vegetable kimchi.
We ordered -1. kimchi belly pork - though I would have liked it with a lot more soup (like the kimchi chigae which I always like and order at Aburiya & Watami), this belly pork was differently done (not just boiled like in kimchi chigae to add base to the soup) & very much better, had very good “mouth-feel”(口感) in texture and taste.
2. spicy sotong (squid) - a generous helping. It might be too spicy for some but was perfect for me.
3. galbi (korean beef ribs) – korean beef ribs. It did have a bit of fat & tendons but it was a very nice dish which I liked a lot and was as good as that served at Chang (though I would need to confess that was many years ago that I went to Chang).
I guess the chef was a bit modern in his approach so his banchan was not quite the traditional big spread of side dishes, his sotong (squid) was accompanied by thin white noodles & this galbi dish also came with a cup of smooth potato puree.The meal comprising 3 very good dishes & banchan came to just S$34nett (about S$26++) using the deal.com vouchers. The service was just ok. I think the prices were actually quite fair for the quality of food offered but less the satisfaction of a good banchan & nicer ambience & better service, so I am unlikely to frequent soon without the voucher discounts.
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