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    Jang Dok Dae

    4.5 (160 reviews)
    ModerateKorean, Noodles, Soup
    Closed 11:00 am - 8:00 pm

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    What's the vibe?
    Casual
    Moderate noise
    Good for groups
    Good for kids

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    Kong guksu
    Lauren C.

    This hole-in-the-wall restaurant serves authentic Korean dishes. I tried the kong guksu and was very well made. The cold soup was very thick, which I found to be unique unlike typical kong guksu. Portion sizes are huge as well. The restaurant stayed a bit warm at first, but the workers eventually turned on the AC.

    Chloe C.

    3.75 rounded to a 4. This is an authentic and traditional Korean restaurant, like the ones you'd find in the rural seaside areas of S. Korea. The interior isn't anything stellar and this place is definitely a mom and pop shop. I could already tell by all the older folks that dine and takeout here. This place seems to specialize in fish-entrees. We ordered the kalchi gui, eundaegu jorim, and seafood pancake. If you come here, you should get a fish/seafood entree instead of a noodle or meat entree. The kalchi gui was sooooo good. The eundaegu jorim was good, but not the best I've had. The seafood pancake was very generous with the amount of seafood inside, but was slightly tough and not the best I've had. But still fair. I'd say the prices for the specific dishes we got were really fair though compared to other places. The dishes automatically come with banchan/side dishes, rice, and soybean soup. The soybean soup was not great, banchan was p good, and I have no complaints about the rice. Service was so friendly, kind, and attentive. They also seem to get a lot of regulars because of how friendly and personal they were with some of the tables. I'd say because this place is authentic, the flavors aren't super saturated with salt and sugar. The flavor is more in the fish, produce ingredients, and classic Korean fermented pastes. They don't like to hide the flavors with a ton of salt and sugar.

    Pork bossam
    Jen N.

    Quiet mom&pop shop. Great service, very authentic, HUGE PORTIONS! The bossam could probably feed 5 people. I plan to come back and try more dishes here.

    Samgyetang (Chicken ginseng soup)
    Lulu Z.

    Maybe we didn't order their specialty item.. but there was a "star" icon to show it as "popular item" . Honestly very disappointed in my Samgyetang (ginseng chicken soup). So much rice, no soup. Definitely prepared differently than other places, all the ingredients were outside of the chicken. Overall - it was a big bowl of porridge.

    은대구조림
    Kylee C.

    this is a TRADITIONAL korean restaurant, so whenever my grandma wants to eat out, we often come here. if you're used to americanized korean food, which ig you wouldn't be able to differentiate if you haven't had homemade korean food, maybe this isn't for you. but if you like traditional korean food like 은대구조림, this is nice. the lady who runs it doesn't speak fluent english, so if you don't speak korean, pls look into what dishes you want to order ahead of time. most customers are middle aged-elders

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    One of my favorite place for lunch. This restaurant is very authtic Korean food place. All the dishes are very very tasty

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    Best service, food is delicious. Clean and quiet place to eat. So far the best authentic Korean food place.

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    Hidden gem. Home- cooked Korean meal that is very satisfying. Loved their 갈치. I will definitely go back next time I am in LA area.

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    my friend is an expert at finding gems like these by perusing google maps. i decided to try this…read moreplace on a friday with a friend and i went back 2 days later because my husband wanted to try after my rave reviews. you know it's a good place when every banchan dish is tasty. also they must rotate out the banchan because just two days later, they had a slightly different spread! more things to try, woot!! the first time, i had the sambap combo (dishes combo on the menu priced at 29.99). there are 5 different kinds to choose from. i love a good chigae and ssam protein combo. i had enough to feed myself with leftovers the next day, for a little midday lunch snack. everything was delicious. can't wait to try all the other protein and soup options. you can choose to have the purple rice or regular white rice with your meal. they also have some of the more homey options like chunggukjang, which is the more pungent cousin to dwenjang. they also have samgyetang (it's a ginseng chicken soup). they also have kongbiji that is made with left over soybeans after making tofu. it was pretty tasty and filling. i'm having it again tonight because my parents are visiting me and they usually stick to korean food and i got no complaints! we are getting it to-go this time though. ajummas here are kind and attentive, which is a plus! when i went on sunday, mexico vs england game was on and it was cute to see the ajumma relaying the message to kitchen staff about the score.

    This was my first time here, and as a somewhat newbie to authentic Korean food (outside of the…read moretrendy Kbbq spots), I was a huge fan! From the friendly service that made us feel like home, to the delicious food, everything hit the spot. We ordered the cold noodle, seafood pancake, bibambap, and short rib combo. All the dishes were so good! And all the banchan that came with it was the cherry on top. The only negative was the table was kind of small for all the dishes...though that could have been user error with us ordering way too much. Portions were surprisingly big, especially the seafood pancake. The whole time, our littlest one was making a mess and the ladies that worked there did not seem perturbed at all, and kept commenting about how cute he was and interacting with him. This type of service and response made us feel more at ease and able to "enjoy" our meal, and that makes a world of difference. I would recommend! Note the parking lot is a little small.

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    Just had a 15-people party celebrating my birthday, everyone had a great time and enjoyed the food…read moreand service. It was nice having a party where we can share a little with others and get a chance to try some things we normally don't. The big find for me was the mackerel, it actually looked like a huge flounder, perfectly pan fried. We also ordered 2 of the seafood pancakes, they came with 8 slices each, just a perfect appetizer for 15 (and 1 left for the one who missed the party). We ordered slightly extra crispy and everyone loved it. The background music was upbeat and contemporary, I loved every song.

    We visited Jomaru thinking it's a type of one-person hotpot because of its name, but it's more like…read morea smaller-scaled BCD with $45 hot pots. Food: The soups were quite bland for our taste so we did a bit of customization with salt and pepper. Although they provided a decent amount of banchan, the proteins in their soups were pretty scarce, not worthing the $19 price tags. Their Hae Jang Guk was the only soup with the bone filled up the bowl. However, because there's no space in the small bowl, even a little nudge made its soup spilled all over my sister's body. The waitress just then gave her a bib but the damage had already been done. The Bulgogi and Katsu took the longest to come out but they were the highlights of our meal. Service: We were the only table at the time and our waitress only gave us 2 menus for a table of 6 so we had to go grab our own from other tables. She's not the friendliest and kept tossing things on our table. She also tried taking away a dipping sauce jar after I had already requested to keep it. Our water was never refilled and napkins were very skimmed out. Though she did check up on our tables, her attitude was what made us refrain from asking for help. We love to give smaller businesses a chance, but we're sad to say Jomaru is not one of them.

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    Craving some soondooboo so we decided to go try the OG Tofu shop that has been here for a long…read moreminute. The last time I ate here was during the pandemic and finally came back. The place seems to really show its age with the floors really dirty and the wood floors are showing a lot of wear and tear. We got there for an early dinner and the place was empty. The lady seemed tired or just not in a friendly mood. The food was still reasonably priced. Much better than the Tofu Chain's and food as good as I remember. I went with the short rib Tofu soup and it came with two nice size beef short ribs and the meat peeling off the bone. Ban Chan was good but could not eat a few of them because they had bean sprouts in it. Nice to see Chodang doing strong. Hopefully the next time back won't be a 3-4 year gap.

    Consistently good food and good service…read more I've been going here for years and can say that the food is consistently good and so is the service. Expect it to be cold in there no matter the day or season - gotta keep you cool when you're eating hot soup! Tables can feel a bit close to each other depending on where you sit. And it does get busy during the usual nights & weekends so expect that. Overall, delicious food with a home cooked feel and good service. I'd say my only gripe is that parking can get busy, but there's plenty of parking throughout the plaza.

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