Shijan Dakgalbi — Restaurant in Tokyo

DO NOT COME TO THIS RESTAURANT IF YOU ARE FOREGINERS! the Korean staff’s attitude were terribly bad and extremely rude. This is an act of looking down on customers, especially the waitress with her short bang. Below story is my actual experience there. We have 3 people. Order mostly grilled dishes Staff came to check and turn off the stove regularly (without any words) while we still needed to use the grill.— it is fine, We think that is their working style, or the restaurant rule because they just want to recommend on the level of grilling. Then if We want to continue grill it , we can turn on by ourselves and continue. We feel weird and We have to fighting to have the change to grill our food back and forth during the dinner. Because they will turn off the fire if they find it opens. The incident culminated when the waitress with bangs came up. we felt very upset with that and told her we needed to continue grilling. but she still didn't turn on the fire and still said it was cooked enough. — of course we turned it on again as We has not done yet. the girl showed up even bad attitude since then. when We came to the counter and pay for the bill, she even didn’t say thank you or read the amount of money for us or ask for the way We will choose for payment. Nothing. She said nothing from the time We came to the cash counter until We left. But keep showing up her bad attitude through the face. Well, good luck if you choose and it at...

The restaurant is located on the Main Street of Shin Okubo. The inside is well ventilated and the tables are well placed so that everyone has ample space. Service was simple and good.

The food: we ordered yangnyeom chicken, another flavor of friend chicken that I don't know the name of, scallion chijimi, kimchi and seafood sundubu. Spent 5,000 yen. Read on for food review.

First thing dropped on the table was a shredded cabbage salad and pickled daikon to accompany the fried chicken. They were both good as that's hard to mess up 😂

Chicken: 6/10. Definitely better than when Japanese people try to recreate Korean fried chicken, but the chicken lacked in crunch from the first bite. I don't like it when the chicken gets too soggy from the yangnyeom sauce as it sits at the table, which is what happened here.

Chijimi: 6/10 way too greasy and not very flavorful. We couldn't even finish it and I never leave food to waste.

Seafood sundubu: 8/10 the saving grace of this meal. Nothing to write home about, but good flavor.

Kimchi: 7-8/10 decent enough. Wish it was a little spicier, but I understand a lot of Korean places make their food for the Japanese palate because that's their main clientele.

Overall, would give this place a 7/10. Wouldn't recommend it or come back for good fried chicken or chijimi. Maybe I'd come back for something different like their cheese and chicken hot plate, which is actually what they're known for...

This restaurant is located about 5-7min walk from the station.

The area offers a great selection of small, local restaurants and a variety of franchises as well. Okubo is know for its abundance of korean bbq restaurants so expect a tonne of options!

It definitely caters to locals more than tourists in my experience which is something I prefer but it can be a bit tough for those who don’t speak Japanese. I’m not sure if the offer an English menu or not.

The restaurant also offer “nomihodai” with a set bbq order which is a great experience at a reasonable price. Food options are varied and they seem to add some sort of new dish every few weeks or so.

I recommend sticking to their “bread and butter” options which is the bbq. They do other types of dishes well but it pales in comparison to their specialty.

Considering the price and convenience of this restaurant, I highly recommend it. It’s not your extremely high end yakitori restaurant and it’s not trying to be either.

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