Kimchi — Restaurant in Regina

Edit: I'm back a year later to try their food again today, Nov 13th after seeing their food photos on FB. I gave 1 more star compared to my last visit - from 3 to 4 stars. The restaurant was well kept as it's clean and organized. I ordered Sundoubu Soup (spelling could be wrong 😅). I quite enjoyed it as the broth is very tasty. I could be wrong, but i thought this specific dish has an egg on top normally but this one didn't come with one so I added one and paid extra for, no big deal. Although, to think that I paid $18 for a soup which was supposed to have variety of seafood and all I got was 1 shrimp 🥲 and the rest is tofu. I find it's way to expensive then! My coworker ordered Bibimbap which did not change much since last time I was in. It still has very little ground meat for the price. Overall experience, everything is good. They would have gotten 5 stars if the portions are more appropriate to the prices. __ I love Korean food and was so excited to learn that there's new Korean restaurant in Regina, I have to try. We finally had time to go today. Parking was difficult but it's downtown so we expected it. Restaurant looks clean and organized. The music was too loud in my opinion. Are you going to be a family restaurant or a pub? You should choose one. If you are family restaurant, you need to get some high chairs. Now, let's talk about the food. I hope this feedback will be taken as constructive criticism. Overall, i was disappointed. The food doesn't live up to the hype and my expectation. My sun tofu soup was meh. I had much better ones elsewhere. Bibimbap was even more disappointing. It's almost $17 for a bowl and there were literally 1 fried egg and approximate 1 table spoon of ground beef and a bunch of vegetables. I understand that food cost has gone up really high lately so everywhere and everyone must adjust it accordingly, but sliced marinated beef would be better. I don't feel that my money was worth it. I don't mind to pay a bit extra for authentic and amazing food. I will have to go to LIG for Korean food I guess. I hope the owner of this restaurant can see my feedback and put more thoughts...

I was so excited to have an "authentic" Korean restaurant open up in Regina, and ordered a nice little spread last night, for take out. 2 kimbop, reg dok bokki, kamjatang, and 2 jjigaes. A cool $100, but I'm thinking, at these prices that's probably a decent amount of food. Well, that was my first mistake. It was NOT a lot of food. After opening everything, I immediately called the restaurant wondering if there had been a mistake. The doenjang jjigae, which cost $16.95, was literally an inch deep in the bowl (see picture). There was so little of it that I successfully poured the entire thing into the same bowl the individual rice came in (of which we got one for each soup). The chef confirmed that yes, this was the normal amount. No mistake. An inch of soup for $16.95. And the flavor wasn't amazing at that. Next, the budaechigae - my personal favorite food from the years I lived in Korea (second pic). Nope. Not even close. Budaechigae is usually a HUGE pot of soup/stew with all kind of ingredients thrown in (if you're interested, look up it's history). This was an ok flavor - I'll give you that, but I've never had udon noodles in it, and again, barely any soup! For $18.95. I get that takeout cannot be exactly the same as dining in with certain dishes, but this was not that. This was just a huge, huge disappointment. Dok bokki was ok - a lot sweeter than I'm used to, but the rice cakes were good. The kimbop were fine. The beef was dry, but the tuna was good. The only really great dish was the kamjatang - a good amount, and pretty tasty, although I can't comment on how "authentic" it was since I've only had it a few times. Banchan was another solid meh. Three little sample-sized cups - apple salad, spicy cucumbers, and some plain japchae noodles - literally enough for an adult-sized mouthful. Certainly not enough to share between MULTIPLE adults who ordered 4 mains and 2 rolls. And of course, zero kimchi. I was so completely disappointed by the whole experience. Authentic Korean cuisine in Regina? Not even close. I guess we will have to continue to drive to Jeju in Saskatoon for...

Update: I will not be changing my rating. I have tried them many times but my experiences have not made me feel like they have upgraded. I will only order from them now if I really crave a kimbap or soup and other places are closed. There were multiple times where I have tried ordering from them on Uber before 6pm but my orders got cancelled. If items are out of stock please update your menu instead of cancelling my orders because this makes your customers feel like you don't even want their business for your restaurant.

The old owners of Wasabi and Bomb have opened this new Korean and sushi restaurant downtown on Scarth Street. I have already tried the traditional Korean menu they had at the east Bomb location and their food was delicious. I was excited to have their food again at the new location but was disappointed. I came to place a takeout order at 7pm on Friday and I waited 1 hour to receive the food to take home. I saw that they had only 2 kitchen workers (the owners) which is probably why it took so long. As I was waiting I heard one of the dine in tables saying their order was taking a long time as well. The food was missing the flavours I was looking for when I had tried them before. The tteokbokki was too soft and missing the bounce. The beef gimbap was falling apart when lifted up. I realize this is just their soft opening but I wanted to leave a review hoping they can improve a few things to become a good Korean restaurant in Regina since that is what we are missing here after Korea House closed. Will revise my review if I see improvements after the...