Seoul Asian Market and Cafe — Local services in San Antonio

Update#4: Feb 23, 2019. Our family of 4 wanted some delicious Korean food at the cafe. Offered to pay early but they won't accept payment until they open at 4 pm. Ridiculous! So if you arrive at 5 or 10 min. past 3pm then you have to wait almost an hour. How does this business model encourage more patrons to the cafe/store? 3.5🌟s for service.

Update#3: Jan 27, 2019. Family of 4 went here especially for the lunch in the kitchen but they are closed Sundays (kitchen/restaurant only). Respect businesses that close for the employees on Sundays, but it would have been nice to have it posted up on their website.

Update#2: Nov 3, 2018. First time family of 4 ate lunch here about 2:30pm. Bulgogi, bibimbap (2), spicy chicken noodle with condiments. 95% tables full..a good sign. Hot & delicious! Strange way to purchase. You have to go to the checkout lanes; look at a menu, pay for it, then bring ticket back to the cooks who make the food.

Kimchi condiments delicious. Kimchi made fresh daily (AM) and placed in cooler. Yellow frame labels on jars. Restaurant food 4.5🌟s. Wife feels if we can find 80% of our needs no reason to travel to Houston.

Update#1: Sep 24, 2018. Still favor Houston H Mart and Austin MT supermarket. H Mart has greater variety of Korean restaurants, Filipino foods, vegetables and specialty kimchees. Prices beat this store. Bought more to justify trip expense. (Prius

If I could sue this place, I would. I really like the Lee Kum Kee Abalone in Premium Oyster sauce that I buy back then because my family abroad likes it. I bought it and sent it to them and they said it is already expired (it's $200 worth of product). This time my family member visited me and they asked if they could buy it again. I took them to the store, trying to look for the expiration date on the can. It said "To look for EXP date, please check the bottom of the product". We tried to look for the date. Out of 10 cans, there is a can with a smeared black EXP date at the bottom (March 11th 2024) just like someone trying to erase it with acetone. We took the product to the register and asked if they have a newer EXP date, the cashier said what's there is there, there is no more at the back. We told them that why are they putting expired product trying to sell it by putting a sale on that item. The cashier look so flabbergasted, she tried to gather all the cans on the aisle, and said that they will put it away. But I know for sure that they never put it back.

Please check the product before buying it. I don't trust this place anymore since this accident. Look nice on the outside, rotten...

I don’t know what they served me, but it sure wasn’t siraegi soup. The broth was a watery, flavorless insult to everything Korean cuisine stands for. No depth, no umami—just a sad, lukewarm puddle of disappointment. The dried radish greens were practically inedible, tough, stringy, and tasting like they’d been rinsed in dishwater rather than properly prepared.

The chunks of meat were laughable—dry, chewy, and utterly devoid of seasoning. Honestly, I’ve had better flavor from instant noodles than whatever this mess was supposed to be. Even the rice, which should be the easiest thing to get right, was hard and stale like it had been reheated from last week’s leftovers.

The banchan? A complete joke. Tiny portions of limp, lifeless side dishes that screamed, 'We don’t care about our customers!' The kimchi was so sour and off-putting, I wouldn’t be surprised if it had been fermenting since the restaurant opened.

This wasn’t just bad—it was offensive. If you’re going to serve siraegi soup, at least respect the dish enough to make it properly. Save your money and go anywhere else. This place is a disgrace to Korean food. The chef should be fired...