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Decided to try something different last night... should've gone to Applebee's..
http://www.yelp.com/biz/dongbu-live-fish-rowland-heights
Sashimi Salad
Sea Squirt?
Lettuce for the fish
Fresh (was alive a few minutes ago) Halibut sashimi
Abalone?
Mussel Dynamite
Some sort of grilled fishy fish
Buckwheat soba with a sweet tangy sauce
Spicy tofu fish stew
So we ate here due to the yelp reviews... didn't turn out too well.. definitely an acquired Korean taste..it started off well with the sashimi salad, tangy and cruncy with bits of fish in it.. then came the sea squirt..very briny and intense seafood taste.. I thought I was on an episode of Bizarre Foods.. Next came the main entree, fresh sliced halibut sashimi. The server instructed to eat it in two different ways, the Korean way is to wrap in lettuce and add some bean paste with the red sauce that's on the table.. Or you can eat it Japanese way of dipping in wasabi soy sauce. The Korean way with the paste and sauce overpowers what little flavor is in the fish. So you end up eating a stringy and slimy goop covered in salty/spicy flavor. It's just a taste/texture combo that I didn't like. The fish on it's own dipped in soy sauce is fine, it has very little taste. It's the texture of the fish that I have problems with.. don't know if its normal but it was too stringy. Japanese sashimi requires very little chewing where as this is a whole new ball game. There are a few pieces of fatty skin in the middle of the presentation that I was too scared to try.. If it wasn't for the two big bottles of Hite, I probably would've thrown up during the meal with all the intense chewing. The Abalone was next and it was fished straight out of the tank and onto my table. It was ok, a bit fishy. At this point we were both wanting something hot and COOKED. The mussels were next and right on time.. Nothing special but having cooked food at this point of our meal was great. Too bad it ended quick when the oysters came. It was decent but not a big fan of raw oysters, especially when we're at the point of grossing out from all the seafoody rawness of the place... Next plate was the grilled fish (mackererl?). It was ok, but again very fishy and didn't help us at this point..The cold soba was ok, and at this point we were looking forward to some hot Korean tofu soup.. When it came it looked like the same old tofu pot we get around Irvine.. but unfortunately bits of fish made it into the stock... fins, bones, skin... yuck... bill came to almost $100 for two.. plenty of food, would've fed three hungry Korean dudes after a round of golf, we left alot on the table..
It was an experience, which we paid $100 for.. never again for us... at this price Japanese omakase would've been a better meal.
http://www.yelp.com/biz/dongbu-live-fish-rowland-heights
Sashimi Salad
Sea Squirt?
Lettuce for the fish
Fresh (was alive a few minutes ago) Halibut sashimi
Abalone?
Mussel Dynamite
Some sort of grilled fishy fish
Buckwheat soba with a sweet tangy sauce
Spicy tofu fish stew
So we ate here due to the yelp reviews... didn't turn out too well.. definitely an acquired Korean taste..it started off well with the sashimi salad, tangy and cruncy with bits of fish in it.. then came the sea squirt..very briny and intense seafood taste.. I thought I was on an episode of Bizarre Foods.. Next came the main entree, fresh sliced halibut sashimi. The server instructed to eat it in two different ways, the Korean way is to wrap in lettuce and add some bean paste with the red sauce that's on the table.. Or you can eat it Japanese way of dipping in wasabi soy sauce. The Korean way with the paste and sauce overpowers what little flavor is in the fish. So you end up eating a stringy and slimy goop covered in salty/spicy flavor. It's just a taste/texture combo that I didn't like. The fish on it's own dipped in soy sauce is fine, it has very little taste. It's the texture of the fish that I have problems with.. don't know if its normal but it was too stringy. Japanese sashimi requires very little chewing where as this is a whole new ball game. There are a few pieces of fatty skin in the middle of the presentation that I was too scared to try.. If it wasn't for the two big bottles of Hite, I probably would've thrown up during the meal with all the intense chewing. The Abalone was next and it was fished straight out of the tank and onto my table. It was ok, a bit fishy. At this point we were both wanting something hot and COOKED. The mussels were next and right on time.. Nothing special but having cooked food at this point of our meal was great. Too bad it ended quick when the oysters came. It was decent but not a big fan of raw oysters, especially when we're at the point of grossing out from all the seafoody rawness of the place... Next plate was the grilled fish (mackererl?). It was ok, but again very fishy and didn't help us at this point..The cold soba was ok, and at this point we were looking forward to some hot Korean tofu soup.. When it came it looked like the same old tofu pot we get around Irvine.. but unfortunately bits of fish made it into the stock... fins, bones, skin... yuck... bill came to almost $100 for two.. plenty of food, would've fed three hungry Korean dudes after a round of golf, we left alot on the table..
It was an experience, which we paid $100 for.. never again for us... at this price Japanese omakase would've been a better meal.
