MUKJA — Restaurant in Pineville

Was so excited about this place as the only Korean stall aside from Itaewon Bar in Alley 51. Unfortunately it’s been a huge disappointment the couple of times now that we’ve tried it. The bar isn’t high since it seems to model itself off of a gimbab place like you’d find in Korea, but the prices are the only thing that exceeds the bar here. We got regular gimbab, and it was cold and dry and worse than the prepped stuff next door in Super G. The tonkatsu gimbab was tasty but cold. I make much better deokkbokki, which wasn’t bad flavor wise, but the ddeok was mushy like it’d been sitting in the pot for an hour. Super disappointing on even the most basic stuff, which they also charge too much for. Hoping they turn it around, cause it’s a...

When I ordered here I order Katsu and it was a mistake when I got my food it was pork. I told the cashier that I don’t eat pork and that it was some confusion with the menu. It’s posted above and has a lot of similar items. The cook/manager proceeded to come and lecture me about how I need to read the menu and gave me a hard time with changing my order. Not sure who she thinks she is but there’s a way to handle customer service and clearly she needs a lesson in how to do so. Mistakes happen and the cashier was very kind but the manager needs to get her act together or she won’t be in business very long. The food was not bad but the manager is uncouth...

Got the tteokbokki and kimbap combo. Spicy is usually not a problem for me but this tteokbokki was way too spicy it was not enjoyable. Not sure if there are spice level options? Kimbap was ok. Has a sweetness to it that authentic kimbap doesn’t have, the size of the roll is large so that’s a plus.

The lady at the cashier couldn’t care less about being there. No eye contact, no friendliness, threw the pen, and had an underlying attitude. Overall, it was a pretty ‘meh’...