Jeon Ju Hyang — Restaurant in Markham

Had my friends birthday here. Service was nice enough to hold the cake at 1pm as my reservation was at 6pm. I also pushed my reservation to 6:45pm due to someone missing, no issues.

Ordered 7 dishes here are my rating for each(had tasted all of them) and after a review of service which is the main reason why the mediore review

tteok bboki with ramen - 5.5/10 One of the least chewy rice cakes I have ever probably worst ones I had in a while. Very solid with no bounce and very little for 18 bucks. the sause and vegetables were good along with the egg and ramen but the star of the show was bad.

chicken noodle soup - 8.5/10 If what your looking for is a clear broth with hint of chicken flavor in chicken broth this is it. The chicken is on the bland side but does not ruin it because the essence of the noodle soup is there. Points taken off the chicken blandness and oily top of the soup

-pork bone soup - 10/10 Best pork bone soup I have ever had. And I have had a lot. The meat is fall off the bone, the soup flavor is there and the rice is firm in a good way since the soup softens the rice to the way you like.

fried chicken - 7.5/10 For 17 bucks you get 6-7 large pieces. The crispy outside and juicy inside of chicken is how a fried chicken should be done. But it is really expensive if you really value Korean fried chicken then it is a must try or avoid zzzz

-soba noodles with raw fish -3/10 Even if they gave this to me for free I would never order again. I could not tell which part of the dish had too much vinegar but the soba was uneatable. The tuna also had too much vinegar which affected the tuna and a bit of the salmon. The egg garnish was frozen still it was like eating icecubes along with the frozen soba noodles which were way too cold, probably due to defrosting.

Beef bugogi - 8/10 Had a lot of beef on the side with kimchi. The beef is well seasoned not too salty along with enough beef flavor.

Service: very disorganized servings 1st dish was a beef bugogi which arrived 10 minutes ahead of the second dish which was the tteok bokki then 5 minutes ahead of chicken noodle soup then 10 minutes ahead of the eel rice with short ribs. We did not rush the waiters assuming that the restaurant was busy but 15 minutes later a server asked us what we did not receive and they did not even have the correct orders down. We had to wait another 15 minutes for the pork bone soup then another 15 ontop after the pork bone soup dish. I waited 1 hour for my dish and 45 minutes for the pork bone soup. They also forgot about my initial notes of no onions for my soba noodles. Asking for water was a small hippup where the server did not have the best attitude when we only got a small teapot for 6 people along with the limit of 2 side dishes for 6 people with such a long wait time. I think a reasonable side dish amount would be 1 per...

I was so excited to hear that another Jeon Ju Hyang location is closer to home & finally got to try it recently. This location is in the same plaza where No Frills and McDonald's is on the northeast corner of Warden & Highway 7. The parking lot is massive so it should not be too difficult to find parking here in the evening. It may be a bit difficult if coming here for lunch due to the dim sum restaurant also being in the same plaza.

I got my usual gamjatang. I usually alternate between rice & ramen. This time I opted to have their ramen gamjatang. My husband got their combo (kimchi stew with mackerel). Once we placed our order, we got the complimentary banchan (potato noodles, spicy cucumber, seaweed, kimchi and pancake). The banchan was not as fresh as the ones we used to experience at their Bamburgh Circle location (so sad that this location closed) but was still good & edible.

My gamjatang arrived piping hot & the portion was massive. The flavor of the broth was missing the depth of the Bamburgh location but it was still delicious. The portion was so huge that I didn't finish my bowl like I normally do.

My husband thoroughly enjoyed his meal especially the mackerel. He said it's the best grilled fish he's had. It was charred well yet the flesh of the fish was still moist.

The service was fine. Nothing to rave about. They did their job of taking our order and bringing our food to us. Nothing special. The only compliant that we had is that they were organizing the dishes and cutlery behind the counter making a lot of clanging noises which isn't pleasant while trying to enjoy our dinner.

Overall, we enjoyed our dinner and would come back again. My favorite place for Korean currently is Bueokae...

Edit : Decided to give JeonJuHyang another chance today due to a SkipTheDishes promotion and the food was much better this time. I ordered a KamJaTang for takeout and it came with 5 pieces of very meaty pieces of pork bone. Maybe last time they had an off day or we ordered the wrong items

Revised my review from 2 to 4 stars

Original: REALLY wanted to like this place but we were super disappointed. We got two items, Bibimbap with Chicken and Boneless Fried Chicken with Soy Garlic Sauce.

Not sure if the chef was sick or something but our food looked nothing like the pictures here. Bibimbap was COLD when it came out. The waitress told us the only difference between Dolsot the stone pot and stainless steel was only the bowl. At least if we got the stone pot it would have been hot right? Since the rice would have been cooked in the stone pot. Boneless Fried Chicken. We got this because my girlfriend does not like having to deal with bones. The fried chicken was just tiny strips of chicken with tons of batter and had tons of COLD soy garlic sauce on. The chicken ended up being cold since it was drenched with sauce. To add insult to injury this came out 10 minutes after we finished our Bimbibap in an empty restaurant.

Not sure if we ordered the wrong dishes (these are very basic Korean dishes), or if we came at a wrong time (6pm on a Friday) or what. But we will NOT be...