RAINBOW CATERING — Local services in Annandale

Bottom line: Think twice before ordering catering or any large order here. In fact, based on my experience with our large order, I wouldn’t recommend this place in general.

We made a large rice cake order, mind you - for my grandmother’s memorial service, and although I understand it was a last minute order, they significantly fell short in quality and service.

Things that fell short:

When they delivered the boxes, each one wasn’t filled with the proper number of rice cakes and they tried filling it with pieces of bread instead of rice cakes.

They demanded payment at the memorial service in check form and when we explained we didn’t have checks right now and offered to pay with a card, they said they couldn’t take card payment because they didn’t have a machine. We then offered to stop by their Annandale location first thing the next day and they kept insisting we pay on the spot.

Eventually, we were able to visit the location to pay. We opted to pay with a credit card and another $60 was added for the credit card processing fees. We honestly wouldn’t have had a problem with this if we had gotten a warning but we didn’t. They didn’t even give us a receipt at delivery.

If your family is considering this place for a large order, please just be aware of the service and quality. Especially the woman owner here who will call repeatedly to demand payment at any...

I bought stir-fried anchovies here. On the outside, they looked fine, but when I got home, I realized they had hidden a bunch of burnt ones inside. That feels really dishonest. Playing games with food like that is just unacceptable.

Their prices are usually higher than other places, and sometimes the food is good so I still buy it. But honestly, it’s a hit or miss — sometimes okay, sometimes really disappointing. They’ve even messed around with kimchi before, not making it properly.

On top of that, the staff is pretty unfriendly. I really don’t feel like going back, but since there aren’t that many side dish shops around, I end up coming here once in a while. Still, this place is definitely not reliable. I’m posting this review so...

The dduk tastes fine but I was disappointed because I ordered 100 boxes of dduk for an event thinking it would be packaged nicely like the ddol dduk boxes. These boxes probably fit larger pieces of dduk but it didn’t have the types of dduk we wanted like the bekseukgi dduk. I’ve added a photo for reference if anyone decides to order large quantities of boxed...