Joh-Eun-Nal Lidcombe — Restaurant in Sydney

(3.5 stars) Lidcombe has a bewildering array of Korean restaurants located in a relatively small, double-sided shopping strip on the south side of the station. With convenient angle parking as well as a multi-storey car park, it’s easy to snaffle a space and take a wander past restaurants separated by grocers stacked with plastic tubs of banchan until a particularly enticing aroma lures you in.

Joh-Eun-Nal roughly translates to ‘good day’ in English. I hadn’t particularly had one, but after a short wait for a table, downing bowls of makgeolli ($13) with Kloud beer chasers ($7), helped to return my day to a better path. Banchan—complimentary Korean side dishes—landed almost immediately, and the kimchi here was the standout. It inspired us down a kimchi-centric menu, kicking off with a generous bowl of fried egg-topped kimchi fried rice ($23) and ending with a huge, well-executed kimchi pancake ($20).

Seasoned Korean fried chicken ($17/half) was red and sticky, but not quite spicy enough for my liking. I had a similar problem with spicy stir-fried pork ($17) served as a meal-for-one with nicely dressed salad and a mound of white rice. I did however enjoy it more over the remaining kimchi fried rice for lunch the next day: takeaway containers were...

Anytime we feel like fried chicken and Soon Du Bu Jjigae we always come here to get our fill. The fried chicken wings are always juicy and crispy on the outside. It comes with two dipping sauces, a garlic mayo and a sweet chili. You can't go wrong with fried chicken and garlic mayo! #bestcomboever.

We've tasted a lot of Soon Du Bu Jjigae and this is one of our favs. The soup is rich and flavoursome, unlike some other places we've tried where it's watery and bland. However, I also think it comes down to personal preference of how you like your soups.

There's a lot of negative comments about service and price. First off, their service isn't too bad, I've had worse... Secondly, their price is quite relative to the area. Overall, this local joint has been consistent for us over the past 3 years and we wouldn't want to change...

Ordered takeaway, ox bone soup has no ox bone just a few pieces of meat. Seafood pancake is burnt and oily. Prices was not cheap for the soup

Reply to boss: Ox bones is not just bones you should be using the ones with the Ox bone joints with meat and marrow. Do you even know your meat cuts? Your menu is misleading as we were looking forward on the soft meat that is supposed to be on the bones. You've defeated the purpose of it. All we found was 6-7 small pieces of brisket meat which was very disappointing for $18 soup. You are lucky I didn't post a photo of the burnt pancake we received. If we were at the restaurant we would have returned it to the kitchen. We got take away and only knew it when we got home. It was burnt. Well, I guess we were the unlucky customer & definitely won't be ordering...