If you're craving authentic Korean food in Plano, this spot delivers. Their signature grilled pork…read moreribs are the star of the menu--tender, flavorful, and perfectly charred. The seafood pancake is packed with seafood and comes out crispy on the outside, while the banchan (Korean side dishes) are fresh and plentiful. The atmosphere is casual and family-friendly, making it great for both lunch and dinner. Service can slow down during busy hours, but the food is worth the wait. Overall, a solid choice for authentic Korean comfort food in North Texas.

Maht Gaek has your traditional Korean food, no frills, the complete banchan spread, and the…read moredelicious pork ribs they are popular for. It is a nice spot to enjoy a meal with friends and family or even on your own. The grilled pork ribs are big, meaty, tender, and juicy. It's glazed in slightly sweet sauce and it has a smoky charred flavor from being grilled. A hearty yummy must try dish when you are here. The bibim naengmyeon or korean spicy cold noodles had a good amount of that spicy sauce mixture (not very spicy if you're worried about that), and it is refreshing with the kimchi and radish. You can even doctor it up with the vinegar and mustard they provide to compliment the dish. The banchan spread includes kimchi, cucumbers, fish cake, salad, and a korean sweet mashed potato. Great bites to pair with the entrees. Overall, the food came out at a reasonable speed, so service is good. Nothing too notable in terms of service and ambiance but the food is good if you want a no frills, simple, hearty korean meal!

High quality ingredients, friendly staff with fast service, and nice atmosphere overall.read more

I absolutely love hot pot. I've been to many hot pot locations. But this by far is some of the best…read morebroth i have ever had. Service was amazing priced reasonably. Portions size is large. Worth every penny!!! Delicious

Excellent! Most dishes are prepared with rice flour or sweet potato starch. Really special!read more

One side of the menu shows standard Asian fare, the other shows Fujianese dishes that are lighter &…read moreslightly sweet. - cucumber with pig ear: never had that combo before, the pig ear takes on the flavor of the cucumber marinade - steamed whole fish - pork with rice noodle - water spinach - egg tofu with bok choy & mushroom: no tofu, it's the egg texture & consistency that's like silken tofu Great service - owner was very sweet & patiently introduced menu items & checked up on everything. Located in the former Bull Daddy Noodle in Plano.

excellence in taste and freshness and service extraordinaire-a true experience in authentic…read moredishes-looking forward to our next visit!!

I have had the strangest dining experience here at this restaurant today. The food, most of it was…read moreamazing, the service, not so great. There was no wait to grab a table for lunch for me and my dining partner. The dining area was quite large, and they have two private dining rooms off to the side. The first struggle was they have no hard copy menu, as they request that you scan a QR code to see the menu on your wireless device. Some of us don't embrace technology and that is okay. To make up for the lack of hard copy menus, they offered to let us use their tablets to peruse the menu. The service itself was lackadaisical, although the food came out quickly, and steaming hot (yay!). It took forever to get water refills to the point that I got up and refilled our glasses myself. Also, no condiments on the table, so I also had to grab those. We started out with an order of the scallion pancake, which was tasty and abundant. Then we ordered two of the Chang's dumplings which were out of this world amazing! The dumplings were soft and the spicy sauce they were in was delectable! For our entrees, we ordered Deep Fried Chicken with Roasted Chilis, the Basil Eggplant, Salt and Pepper Shrimp, and an order of their Shrimp Fried Rice. The Deep Fried Chicken with Roasted Chilis arrived, and while the chicken itself was amazing, the plate was mostly roasted chilis and not enough chicken. I chose this dish having seen serveral other tables order, and their dishes were brimming with chicken. Our, not so much. The Basil Eggplant was incredible. The flavor and the crispy outside make this dish great!! The Salt and Pepper Shrimp was a disaster. Most Asian eateries that I have been to, the shrimp are ginormous, with a light batter, and one of my favorites. At Sichuan Folk, the shrimp were heavily battered, extremely greasy, and the shrimp themselves were tiny, evidenced after removing the super thick batter. Do not order this dish. The shrimp fried rice was an extremely enjoyable surprise. The texture of the rice was fantastic, and the amount of shrimp, peas, carrots and egg was generous. Definitely will order this again. The service is what really surpised me the most. We didn't feel welcome, as we had to ask several of the waitstaff for silverware, napkins, and bowls to mix our soy sauce and chili paste. Those Chang's dumplings and the Basil Eggplant, along with the Shrimp Fried Rice are enough to make us want to come back and give it another try, after researching the menu some more.

Came here for a friends get together. There is a language…read morebarrier but there were two young kids that helped translate to I believe is their mom. You have to order minimum of two skewers per meat you want to try. A couple of singles were okay but they don't want you to abuse that. I tried some lamb, beef (fat), chicken skin, pork belly and one with pickled cabbage. Overall all the meats were heavily seasoned and quite salty. The main season I think was cumin and salt. The lamb and beef fat were the lesser seasoned, tender and quite good even though I don't care for lamb very much. The pork belly was very salty. The chicken skin was salty and needed to be grilled longer to be crispier. Our friends ordered cucumbers and pig ears cold dish- great flavors!! I'm okay on the pig ears but I loved the smashed cucumbers. And someone got crispy fried pork (I think a sweet and sour sauce). It was very good and most popular item. Quite sweet but had soo much crunch! At the end, they gave us some tanghulu. The boy told us because we had a baby with us, his mom made us the tanghulu. Very sweet of them!

Good food! Full of flavor, good quality meat, much better portion with the price than a lot of…read moreother places! Loved the lamb, beef, chicken gizzard and heart, cucumber salad and chives! Service is a little slow, not enough people run the room. From the layout to the menu, everything seems very disorganized in such small place.

This is our favorite Sichuan flavor in dfw, the chef is top notch, and everything we tried tasted…read moregreat, including the non-spicy dishes.

Food was so delicious here! Full of flavors, even a little too salty. Very authentic too. Loved the…read morestir beef, cabbage and green bean. Would skip the boil beef but try something else next time. Price is very reasonable. Service... hmm

We stopped by around 2 pm for a late lunch. It wasn't too busy -- a few other groups were just…read morewrapping up. The place is tucked into the southeast corner of the Coit & Legacy shopping strip. There's plenty of seating with booths, small tables, and a few large round tables for bigger groups. They really went all out on the panda theme with the interior decor. Service was good. Our waitress (who I'm pretty sure was the owner) mentioned that the bullfrog dishes are prepared fresh to order. You can tell they take a lot of pride in the quality of the food here. We ordered the sautéed bullfrog with pickled pepper (泡椒牛蛙), braised pork liver (老烧猪肝), and the house special spicy hotpot (极品毛血旺). The bullfrog was super tender and fresh with just a bit of heat. The pork liver was really flavorful -- a little salty, but that's expected and it went great with rice. The spicy hotpot was amazing -- the chicken and beef were unbelievably tender, almost fish-like in texture. Probably the best version of this dish I've had in DFW. I also liked that the dishes weren't drowning in oil like a lot of Sichuan spots -- just enough for flavor and color. Pro tip: don't skip dessert, especially the brown sugar glutinous rice cake (爆浆红糖糍粑). Even though we were already full, we had to try it. It came out hot with a crunchy exterior and gooey red sugar filling that oozes out when you bite in. Light, sweet, and it even helped cleanse the palate after all the spice.

A couple of concerns:…read more First, I tried calling to place an order to pick up but the phone message was that the phone wasn't set up for messages. Secondly, I went there to place my order and a person was inside the door on the phone and then told me that they were closed even though the OPEN light was on and the hours on the website said they were open! When I asked why they were closed, he didn't answer me but a woman was walking out and when I asked her why they were closed, she said they were closed on Wednesday. But that's not what the website said! Note the handmade sign that was on the door. It said nothing about being closed on Wednesday! Not sure why there's a different name of the restaurant on the sign. Suffice to say, this was going to be our first time eating from here. We won't be going back!

Great services at always. Great seafood and lamb stews , new menus for Japanese steak is great too.read more

We went to Gao's BBQ & Crab in Allen after a graduation celebration with a party of 14 people. I'll…read moredo my best to give an objective review. The biggest issue for us was the ordering system. Everyone has to scan a QR code, place their own order, and enter their phone number. For a large group, this became very confusing because when the food came out, there was no clear way to tell who ordered what. We spent a lot of time trying to figure out which dishes belonged to each person. If you're coming with a big party, I definitely recommend making a list of everyone's orders ahead of time so it's easier to organize when the food arrives. The food itself was extremely spicy. Most of the BBQ items -- seafood, chicken, beef, and pork -- seemed to have the same heavy cumin and spicy seasoning, so the flavors started tasting very similar. Personally, that wasn't for us. However, the soy sauce fried rice and the cold noodles were really good and stood out the most from the meal. The service was good overall, although communication was a little difficult at times because it was hard to understand the staff's accents. The restaurant itself was clean and well kept. I think this place may work much better for smaller groups, but for our large party it was stressful and the food flavors were too repetitive for our taste. Unfortunately, it's probably not somewhere we would return to. Also they added 25% tip mandatory without mentioning it anywhere ; It was an experience though