MAUM — Restaurant in Autonomous City of Buenos Aires

Overall it's just an ordinary place — nothing surprising about it, even though we specifically came to this location looking for some authentic Korean vibes. The food wasn’t particularly tasty — it felt like something you’d quickly throw together at home without much effort. The tteokbokki came in a sauce that tasted like a heavily watered-down version of Buldak noodle sauce. If this is what they mean by Korean flavor, that’s honestly disappointing. I could just buy instant noodles, cook them myself, and they would taste way better.

And all of that would have been somewhat tolerable, like maybe you could somehow accept it, but there's something you need to know. If you want to share one dish between two people, you'll have to pay an extra 5000 ARS — and you'll only find out about this after you've placed your order, waited for a bit, and then a waiter comes over and informs you of this rule. There's no mention of it anywhere — not in the menu, nor on any signs in the café. According to the staff, the charge is for the second person's cutlery because, according to the restaurant's logic, that person supposedly didn't order anything.

Honestly, we encountered a system like this for the first time in our lives, so we ended up ordering one more dish. We got the impression that’s exactly what they were trying to push us to do.

At least four different waiters served us, which was also strange. In the end, they gave us a bill that included extra drinks we never ordered. We ordered one drink, they brought us two for some reason, and the bill actually listed three. Then they even double-checked with us to make sure we weren’t lying, and after that, they crossed off one of the extra drinks from the bill. As for the second extra drink, we didn’t even bother arguing — we just wanted to leave as quickly as possible.

Overall, the impression was far from pleasant. We figured it’s much better to just go to Chinatown, where everything works according to a normal schedule, the food is much more diverse and flavorful, and the service is way better instead of driving all the way to the outskirts of the city to visit a Korean place and end up paying twice as much as you would at...

La cocina coreana es de mis favoritas y gracias a este restaurate descubrí mi pasión por esta, por su variedad de sabores, texturas y platos. Fui varias veces tanto con mi familia como con amigas y recomiendo al 100%, sobre todo si se va acompañado de alguien que nunca probó la comida coreana.

Los platos grandes vienen con un banchan de kimchi muy rico y bien picante para complementar. Y el kimbap trae una sopa que nunca supe distinguir de qué está hecha, pero aún así es de mis cosas favoritas. El menú viene con un medidor de picante al lado de cada plato, lo cual es muy útil para quienes no acostumbran a comer picante (nunca subestimen el picor del gochujang, por más que sólo diga 1🌶️ la vas a pasar mal si sos como mi mamá, que no resiste bien al picante tranqui).

La gente del lugar es muy amable y no te atosigan si te quedás un rato largo. Sobre todo si estás en la terraza, que es un lugar muy lindo donde cada tanto pasan michis del lugar (ojo los alérgicos a los gatos, recomiendo sentarse en el piso de abajo si es el caso). Está todo lleno de plantas, decorado precioso con sillas y mesas distintas y muy cómodas. Recomiendo las mesas del balcón cuando se va de a dos en días soleados, realmente...

Very nice korean restaurant, gimbap and Udon based. They're in a new location and its interior design is really nice. Gimbap is good, and Udon too but both dishes aren't well seasoned for my taste. They need more flavor. Maybe spicier dishes are better. I'd like for the Udon to come with kimchi as a banchan besides...