Dae Jang Geum — Restaurant in Ellicott City

Sooo good! This is our 5th time visiting here from Hershey. We were willing to drive 1-2hrs for this place. The staff here is so kind. The staff will cook for you and they are very consistent with the way they cook. All 5 times (with different staff cooking the meat) resulted in tender and soft texture on the meat. You can also ask them to leave it for a bit if you'd prefer more crispiness (ie. Crispy pork belly).

The first 2 types of meat from Combo D were so good. The 3rd meat in that Combo D is marinated with the right amount of seasoning.

The seafood pancake is so crispy and all the banchans were so flavorful.

I would recommend you try their samjang with the meat first because it very good. However, if you want to try a sweeter sauce, ask for the bibim sauce because it goes well...

Ordered $1,400 catering food for my uncle’s funeral service as this location was his favorite for a long time. Turns out this establishment couldn’t even bother providing fresh food, and made the entire thing the night before. Fried catering items over 12 hours before the event, causing fried items to have hardened texture. Now, I have my own share of experience in the food industry — it seems they didn’t even bother re-frying them. Texture and taste screamed out to me that it was microwaved before being delivered. Not even within the acceptable, safe food temperature range.

Entirely disrespectful and I cannot even put it into words how this establishment neglected years of patronage my uncle provided for this location.

I’ll never be visiting again. 이런 일을 대충 마음 없이...

Not sure why this place isn't more highly rated, but I accidentally discovered this place when looking for a Korean restaurant that has a great banchan lineup. Went in for BBQ - will try their regular menu next time - and was not disappointed. The banchan were really great, and refills came quickly. Service was excellent, the server made sure each meat dish was cooked to perfection and did not push me to finish the meat quickly so she can cook the next one - most other Korean BBQ places will put them on a dish and let them get cold before I can finish it, which sucks. The only thing I would say about this very clean restaurant is that it's a little small so if there are a lot of people you may need to wait. Highly recommend anyone in the area to try...