Korean Kitchen Tofu & Galbi — Restaurant in Chula Vista

Whenever I'm feeling homesick for my mom's tofu soup (usually when I have a bad cold), this is where I go for comfort! The spicyness of the gochujang in the Beef Soon Tofu soup or Kimchi Chigae soup clears me right up! The Beef Tofu soup is very tastily prepared, it comes with extra soft tofu, beef, mushrooms, zucchini, and very very hot soup (just about boiling) and the side dishes are excellent, very tangy and generous portions. The Kimchi Chigae comes with scallions and jalapenos for even more kick. For my American and Mexican friends, I normally order something different. The Bulgogi BBQ meat never fails, and Kimchi Pajun (Korean pancake with seafood and kimchi) I always tell them is a Korean pizza! If you're not in the mood for soup or a ton of meat and want more veggies, I would get the Dolsot Bibimbap. It includes a fried egg with runny yolk on top of rice with carrots, mushrooms, zucchini, carrots and bean sprouts. I cover the entire thing with lots of Korean hot pepper paste (that's gochujang) and mix it right up. So delicious!...

I was here when this place emerged around 2013 and I knew that there were still a lot of kinks that they had to smooth out, because they just opened. Almost 7 years later, I gave this place another chance and .... YES. You all need to try this place out! I brought in my two most ruthless Korean food critics with me and our dine-in experience was heavenly delicious! Our server was friendly and if you like the small dishes (banchan) you can ask for more - no charge! So don’t be shy! See my pics below that proves that you can ask for more of their banchan like kimchi, fish cake, etc.

If you’re not sure what to order and you like beef and rice, you can’t mess up with ordering the galbi (grilled marinated beef short ribs) or their grilled chicken. If you’re feeling for some soup, there’s some spicy ones with or without tofu in the meat/veggie mix. I opted for the Spicy Beef Glass Noodles soup Yukgaejang! Mmm mmm!!

PS yes there are restrooms and when you walk in - just try to make contact with a server and they’ll have you...

I wouldn’t lie the food was kinda good but the problem about this places was the service like the food was slow the place was un organize and mostly the paying was the worst I ordered a bolgogi and they haven’t give it yet and when our main waiter told us that what else do you guys have i said we have 2 bolgogi and he came back again and said that what you guys need in between 10-20 mins the people in our table is almost is almost done with the food and I haven’t got my 2 bolgogi for the the whole table and i just said let ne just have one and make it a take out and they gave it to me but they said that it was 2 in the box the main manager when i start paying but charge me with an extra one and also they said that they have to charge 12% for 4 and up amount of people and also the 12% was not 12% it was more 25% just dont go to this place the workers was slow and kinda not use to the busy place and...