i’m sorry to say I agree with you. I found it underwhelming. it’s not really set up as a place to eat the prepared foods they have (not a lot of seating, a lot of items were cold and clearly meant to take home and re-heat.) Nothing was bad - i think the general consensus was that we loved the unagi plate (eel and rice), the kimchi, a squid radish kimchi, another pickled veggie thing, and a cheesy kimchi dish, everything else was ok, just a little bland (for Korean food!). Nevertheless, I ate so much i was too full to explore the actual market, but a friend that did venture said there were less offerings than at our H Mart. There is a restaurant there that we thought about going to at first, but there was a 45 minute wait and it looked pricey for the rather standard offerings. I may go back to check out the grocery store. We stopped at the bakery afterwards and brought some things home - i got two of the sulpang - a rice wine bread-cakey thing - one with cream, the other plain but that you could buy spreads for - i bought one that was yuzu. The plain one was warm out of the oven when i got it, but we didn’t try it til i got home at least 4 hours later, and it was rather tough and not at all fluffy. Maybe it needs re-heating. The yuzu spread was a bit like a greasy icing, to me. Nothing i’d try again. I bought them mainly for the BF and I’m not sure he can even eat them (dental issues).
One of our group (there were 8 of us) did, however snag some beautiful looking Wagyu that wasn’t crazy expensive. i’ll wait for his review and see how he prepares it, and maybe I’d go back for that.
ANYWAY. Not sorry i went, but not in a super hurry to go back. Will definitely go try the food court at H mart though, which I’ve still not been to.
Oh, how I miss them back home!
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