Korea Restaurant

The Korea Restaurant in Tin Hau is one of THE Korean restaurants you should visit at least once.  It is an intimate and delicate space.  Everything in this place oozes a relaxed, soothing vibe, from its friendly staff to its scrumptious food.

Your culinary journey at this restaurant already embarks when you are greeted with its great barbecue aroma.  This evening, we ordered the Samgyetang Bulgogi set meal.

An array of Banchan were quickly served after we placed the order... all of them were very delicious.  Gogumasun Namul, the marinated potato starter, was especially succulent and sweet.  But the Banchan paled in comparison with the Bulgogi plates.

Here comes the Bulgogi portion!  There were seafood, pork and beef  - all marinated in very special barbeque sauce.  And thanks to my good cooking skill, I was able to bring out the best of the raw food :P  The beef, complemented with the sauce, charred in a delicious smoky way; yet, its fresh flavour was not masked.  The pork was very delicious, full of fatty flavour.  It was flavoured up when I added a sprinkling of pepper over it.  

The Pajeon ensured that, if you were not already feeling full by the Bulgogi, you would be stuffed by the time you were done.

We slowly hit the height of the crescendo of the menu.  The fragrant Samgyetang was the star of this evening!  It was bittersweet, rich and satisfying.   Having just finished the Bulgogi, I could feel that there were a lot of heat and fire accumulated in me.  The soup helped clear this heat from my body.

The waiters were very friendly.  They initiated to replace the barbeque plate for us when it got crusty.

Another highlight of the evening was: I ran into Chip Tsao, my former mentor when I studied at HKU!  I didn't say hi though, as he was with his family.  

Korea Restaurant
Shop A, 13-17 Lau Li Street,
Tin Hau,
Hong Kong
  

In Sa Dong Korean Restaurant

Tokwawan may not be the first place you think of when you want to have Korean food.  Tsimshatsui is.  Korean establishments sprouted like mushrooms in the area.  You can find a lot of groceries, restaurants and general merchandise stores there.

In Sa Dong Korean Restaurant enjoys the benefit of low rent of the Tokwawan district and therefore can dedicate all its effort (and capital probably) to its food.   I can't find any other Korean restaurants that offer better cheap eats.

I had lunch in this restaurant when I was running a few errands in the district.

Their mixed rice was mightily awesome.  The waitress poured a lot of the spicy-sweet chili into the bowl, stirring and mixing the rice, the shredded vegetable and the minced beef until all the ingredients were coated with the interesting sauce.  Just look at the delightful color of red, yellow and green.  It tasted even better than it looked.

My friend ordered Ojingeo Bokkeum, i.e. Spicy Stir-fried Squid.  The squid was bathed in the very interesting Gochujang sauce, sprinkled with some sesame .  Ahem, the sauce was a bit too spicy for me.  My friend liked it a lot and said it was very 'korean'.  To be fair, I think it is an acquired taste.

I definitely want to go back and try their barbecue sets too.

In Sa Dong Korean Restaurant
Wei Chlen Court Wyler,
335 To Kwa Wan Road,
To Kwa Wan