KOREAN BBQ!

As a modern and contemporary food blog, we present to you reviews on all different variety of food from all across the world. This time, I’m going to do a review on the Korean food I ate around my housing area.

I guess most of you are familiar with this sign board.

The restaurant’s name as above is DAOREA KOREAN BBQ.

The reason I mentioned earlier that you guys should be familiar with this restaurant is because it has a wide range of branch across Malaysia.

The branch I went to was the one in Bandar Puteri Puchong, Selangor.

This is the traditional way with a modern touch of how the Korean sit while enjoying their meal. I mentioned with a modern touch because originally there aint any hole below the table. You have to cross your legs while eating, but to aid those who cant bare the long period of time with their legs crossed, a hole is made to ease their problem! They can now enjoy Korean cuisine without any pain! :)

Normal tables are available too, no fears!

 

Menu: It is a Korean BBQ restaurant, so obviously their main dish in their menu is the BBQs with the choice of pork, beef or chicken.

KOREAN noodles are also available.

Compliment seaweed soup is served prior to the food serving.

This is the pork special I tried that is worth RM 35. As you can see, the portion is obviously small but the price is high. :)

While waiting for it to be cooked, a variety of side dishes are also available for you. Second helping to third helping are available for the soup and the side dishes.

Tada!! The end product of the so called special pork.

Well, the special pork is not really special I guess, it is just almost the same as the other one I chose. Just 1 thing that differentiate them, the special one is more tender and more aromatic as it is marinated.

I’ll give 7 Nuggets for this Special Pork BBQ and A Half Burnt Note. It will definitely burn a hole in your pocket! ( Sorry about the official scale, we’re working on it!)

Next!

Sam-kub-sal in Korean. :) We call it pork belly or Fa Yoke( In Cantonese).

The portion is definitely bigger and it only cost RM27 for this! This does not mean that it is not tender, it is just not as tender as the special one! I’ll pick this compared to the special one as it is more economical!

There you go!

Ready to be eaten!

The perfect way to eat it! Wrap it around a slice of lettuce/cabbage with a garlic and an onion slice. Oh! The fat of the pork melts in your mouth and the aroma of the onion and garlic with the pork, and the crunchy lettuce when you bite. MY saliva almost dripped out when I was typing this post.

8 Nuggets for this Sam-Kub-Sal. A slightly burnt note. :D

Moving on!

JanChi-Gook-Su, RM17 per bowl.

Fresh vegetables and seafood served with Korean noodles in hot soup.

The KOREAN noodles and the hot soup are special, other than that, it is just like the seafood soup noodles we can order at the hawker stalls.

5 Nuggets, Half burnt note. RM17 for this noodles is quite expansive, it can be cheaper.

Other side dishes I ordered:

Korean Pancake!

I love it very very much. Forgot the price cause it is worth eating!

I hope this review did not made your shirt/pants/anything below your chin got wet!

:) Simply tempting! Definitely worth a try and even a second, third….visit!

Delivery!

Today is a change of tastebuds for lunch. As i was left at home with my brother for the day because our parents were out, we were left with RM50 to spend it in anyway we want!

HMMMMMMM what to get with RM50??

Obviously, we spent it all on our lunch to turn our hungry bellies into satisfied organs. Since we did not have a car to go out and buy the food, we had to do delivery. So far the foods that do delivery are only fast food restaurants. I would love the day when "kai fan" or "nasi lemak" is able to be delivered to your doorstep but that would be far far away. One of the type of foods that have a big reputation of delivering food is PIZZA CHAINS. Dominoes, Pizza Hut and an up and coming Canadian Pizza are the giants in this market.

Let tell you my pizza story. When i was younger, i used to adore Pizza Hut cause they were the biggest pizza chain around and they had those nice restaurants where you can sit and have family meals together. Then i realized that Pizza Hut was evil cause Dominoes was offering Buy 1 free 1 with a membership card and also had bigger sizes and more tastier pizzas. When the recession hit, dominoes eventually did what everyone else did and shrunk their pizzas and ingredients. I hate when restaurants do that, and then i found Canadian Pizza who just happened to set up a new branch in Puchong. I have been loyal to them ever since.

The Canadian Pizza ( www.canadianpizza.com.my ) outlets are located at 10 places! Check them out! The one at Puchong is located at Pusat Bandar Puchong (opposite Tesco through the highway) on the turning into the housing estate. There is a big sign, you can't miss it. It goes on the Buy 1 Free 1 concept. Meaning you can buy any size and flavour your want , and you will get another 1 free. Cool eh?

Prices are also quite reasonable, 10 inch at 29.90, 12 inch at 36.90 and 14 inch at 42.90 . Remember you actually get another one of the same size free. You have a choice of 15 pizzas to choose from!

So now, lets check out what I got.

I ordered 2 extra large pizzas at RM45.90 (RM42.90 for 2 pizzas + RM3 delivery fees)

1st flavour is Meat Lover

The name really describes the pizza. It is MEAT all over!

Minced meat, topped with onions and not forgetting cheese! Fabulous combo.

The crust is pan crust, and it is not the pizza hut type of crust. It is much thinner like the real Italian type.

Once you start biting into this load of meat, you will simply want more and more. There is alot of beef taste when you bite it. The onions enhance the flavour even more by making the beef smell better. It is really a fabulous pizza

Nugget rating = 7 / 10

2nd flavour for my pizza is Canadian Supreme

Supreme? Hmmm , I would think based on the amount of ingredients they give you then it can be called Supreme. This pizza is like a rojak of alot of ingredients. It has beef peperoni (my favourite) , black olives (healthy) , mushrooms, capsicums and lotsa cheeeeeseeeeeeee.

This one doesn't taste as meaty as the first one. It is comparable to the Dominoes "Extravaganza" as it has pretty much the same ingredients.

This has a more cheese and mushroom taste compared to the meat lover which i think some people would fancy more than the carnivours .

Nugget rating = 7 / 10

There are many other side dishes on the menu as well. such as cheese garlic bread ( RM3.90 ) , Jumbo Chicken Wings (RM10.80) , tortilla wraps (RM9.80) and also alot more. 11 items on the side orders list all together. I'm sorry I did not have a change to order them today as I was abit short on cash. I have tried the tortilla wrap and cheese garlic bread before and I would say that I can get them anywhere else.

Final conclusion:

Canadian Pizza is totally the best pizza chain there is right now in terms of affordability and also taste. The buy 1 free 1 concept will be to your advantage especially for parties and company functions. There is plenty of variety. On terms of affordabilty, I would say that it burns a slight hole in your pocket but still thats the price you gotta pay for eating pizza yet comparing to other pizza chains, CP still wins!