Be warned!!
Stay away from this newly opened ' Buk Chong Dong Soon Tofu Korean Restaurant ' next to ' The Emperor ' at Bayview/Blackmoor, Richmond Hill!
Do not be deceived by the fact that the place is full on the weekend - Food is just plain LOUSY and BAD!!
Sad thing is, it was recommended by a couple of my wife's 'Korean' friends!
The seafood tofu soup I had this lunch time was easily the worst dish I have had this year! This was so pathetic and sad tasting, I could cry! Broth was one dimensional and beyond bland. The so called 'seafood' component comprised of two stingy and tiny, head-on cooked North Sea sweet shrimp. ( a bag of 24 costing around $3 ), one New Zealand mussel on the half shell and one oyster meat, the size of a dime! The rest was silken tofu, which, thankfully, was passable. At $9 for this dish, plus a bowl of stone pot brown rice! I estimate cost wise... $2 max?! Wow! great profit margin and huge rip-off!
Side dishes were mediocre and run-of-the-mill. Bulgogi Beef was sad looking and way too sweet! Service was down right slow! Our food arrived, pile up on a trolley next to our table and getting cold, but no one bother to serve us! When time for our bill, our waiter apologized for not writing our order down and asked us what we had, since he claimed he was too busy!
I was so tempted to tell him, just write down...' lousy food '!
For a restaurant to succeed, great location, food and service are of utmost important. Unfortunately, based on the obscure location, lousy food and ultra-slow service, I doubt they will last long!
Question?! With such mediocre food, how come they have so many branches scattered all around town?
15 times the cost for 'GMO' product! That's why I don't eat Popcorn! Ha!
Labor intensive dishes and products that command a higher price premium, that I can take.
However, that bowl of over-priced Seafood Tofu Soup that involved just the pouring of hot broth over already cooked and ultra stingy ingredients! That, I cannot tolerate!
Agreed, Korean nosh may not be great cooking - when compared with similar-level Chinese, French or Indian - but it can be tasty and satisfying, as I discover whenever I walk into a place like Cho Sun OK, on Yonge St. north of Steeles Ave. (on the southeast corner plaza at Yonge and Clark). I got the tip on Chowhound years ago, and have been tucking in ever since whenever I get the urge for Korean. Wildly popular with the local Korean community, who're always delighted to recommend their favourite dishes to outsiders like myself.. Well-run, easy to take prices. Try the Mool or Bibim Naengmyun (cold noodle dishes) in hot, muggy weather like we're having now. By comparison, the Buk Chong Dong chain - along with the one Charles Yu stumbled upon, there's one on Bloor near Christie, another on Yonge near Finch - is quite basic. Ideal, I suppose, for students who're not too fussy so long as the price is right.
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