Yimi Food & Bubble Tea - Specialità Asiatiche — Restaurant in Lecco

This review is purely for the food, not the atmosphere as I don't think we were the right demographic, so it feels unfair to comment on the atmosphere (imo seemed to be catered towards young adults as it's right outside the uni, who seem to be very into K-pop and that kinda vibe).

We really wanted to love this place, and were so excited to find out that there was a place doing Korean food. So, we came a few weeks ago, didn't take pics of the food but we got: Fried chicken (advertised as Korean) Rabokki

Fried chicken was served on a leaf of iceberg lettuce that was soggy and oily, and had a funny coating that wasn't really that crispy. We got the spicy flavour and it wasn't spicy, and for the price (5EUR), was just not a lot of chicken...

Rabokki was... sweet??! Rabokki is not supposed to be sweet, the tteok was flavourless, like it hadn't even been cooked in the sauce when made, and the noodles clumped together. Admittedly, the tteok did have good texture, but it hadn't soaked up any of the (super sweet) sauce. You would bite into the tteok, and there's just plain rice cake flavour, nothing else. Carrots were oddly chopped into different sizes with different angles, but probably all cooked together which made some to be super mushy and soggy, and then some just averagely mushy. There was minimal flavour of what rabokki should be, gochujang forward. Fishcakes are hard to mess up as you usually buy them pre-made, but... why use the cube fish cakes for rabokki instead of the standard flat ones? Yes, sliced on the diagonal, but still, it's too much fish cake in one bite. For 11.50EUR it was one of those times when you feel compelled to finish the food because you spent your hard earned money on it, but every bite is just forcing it down. Still can't get over why it was so sweet and there was no gochujang flavour.

Maybe the bubble tea and bao would have been better, but I wouldn't say that this is authentic Korean food by any means, and is a mish-mash of Chinese, Hong Kong, Korean, Taiwanese.

I guess right outside a uni, it looked like the vibe was teenagers who are super into K-pop - I'm sure it's nice to build a community, but unfortunately, I wouldn't say the food we tried...

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At first, we came to this place just to have a quick lunch and taste something different than pizza and pasta, but because the dumplings and baos were so delicious, we decided to come back for dinner at the same day also :D The food was authentic and tasted awesome! The drinks we had, bubble teas, soda and strawberry matcha latte were top notch and really refreshing too. The place is very small, so if you want to dine in, you need a little bit of luck to get a seat. Yimi and the service team are super friendly and it was nice talking with them. All in all, i can totally...