Bulko — Restaurant in Copenhagen Municipality

I'm a well traveled little pig. I've eaten Korean BBQ on 32nd street and on keeaumoku, in K-town and Seoul.

A hard truth I've learned from looking for garlic-chili-kimchee nirvana: you will not find authentic Korean food in cities without sizable Korean immigrant communities. Foreigners usually prefer to have milder seasoning with less chili and garlic than Koreans might like. It's rare for a foreigner to be a kimchee connoisseur, so why put in the effort?

So with this in mind, I can say Bulko is above average by foreigner Korean restaurant standards. It's not authentic traditional Korean food, but portions were generous and it visually resembles the traditional cuisine. For a city without much of an immigrant Korean community, this is probably as good as you're going to get.

We ordered the bulgogi BBQ. In the US, bulgogi BBQ refers to marinated meat grilled over charcoal or flames. Here, there was indeed a tabletop flame, but the meat was... boiled in a pan over that, in a manner similar to hotpot or sukiyaki. I've never seen that done before, but according to an internet search it's a thing. Personally I prefer the taste of grilled meat to boiled, but to each his own.

I recommend asking for extra gochujang and Korean chili pepper if you want a more authentic level of spiciness. Sadly (and surprisingly) I was told that the kitchen didn't have any garlic, which is sometimes used raw as a condiment.

I'd rate them higher but the kimchee tasted weird (underseasoned? It certainly looked pale) and service was a little inattentive, though pleasant enough when...

Food very average. Have lived in Korea for many years and will always go out of my way to try good Korean food outside of the country. This was not it.

Bulgogi was fine, what you'd expect, no complaints. Fried Chicken was a gigantic letdown, KFC or McDonald's nuggets would've been better and that's kinda sad to write. It was dry and there was nothing remarkable about it. Bibimbap was fine, nothing I'd come back for. The kimchi tasted and looked like a certain packaged brand you can buy all over city in Asian stores. I'm like 90% I can identify the right brand. The 3 banchan were forgettable, odeng wasn't great, whatever they'd done to the eggplant was questionable and the bean sprouts were just plain.

At the 300-400 kr pr person price point you're better off visiting some other similar restaurant.

I really wanted to like this place, but it's just not worth it. Korean food doesn't take much to get right, and when it's properly done...

This is the worst service one could get! As a couple (non-White obviously), we had been placed so far from the luminous part of the restaurant while the place was empty at 4pm. It was so frustrating to be isolated from the growing yet laughing and chatty crowd moving forward on the other side of the restaurant. We must have been invisible and unworthy. Had to wait for 25 minutes to get a terribly basic somaek cocktail, and 10 more minutes to get our dishes with average taste. Yet we ordered several meals from their quite overpriced menu. Should we be new to Korean cuisine, the culture and whatnot, we would have left right away. We love Korean food. We eventually left unnoticed as the so-called attending staff was busy serving more deserving clients. The worst experience ever at a Korean restaurant, will never go back and will never...