BBQ Town — Restaurant in San Jose

I’ve been wanting to try this place inside of H Mart because I heard it was good but I was greatly disappointed. Barbecue town is in a corner of H Mart. No surprise. At first we looked at what was available in their cold case. Containers of different kinds of bibimbap for $6.99 each. We are going to get that and some Bonchon but then, when we went to pay for it, we saw that for a higher price you could get the bibimbap And we assumed it would be made fresh and be hot instead of cold. I asked the lady about the banchan and she said that I think containers that I chose were what was available. It took about 10 minutes for our food to be prepared. I got the chicken Bibibop and my husband got the seafood. we were concerned that the containers felt cold. So there was cold vegetables on the bottom and then very over cooked chicken and seafood on top. The rice was hot in separate containers. And they gave me a container of banchan so I didn’t need to buy the separate containers, but the lady did not make that clear. This Bibibop was $16.99 and we for the life of us could not figure out what the difference was between what was in the coal case. It was mostly cold. So it was overpriced and overcooked. Very...

This place is located inside H-mart so that before or after grocery shopping you can have some food.

I ordered Hot stone bibimbap. The difference between normal bibimbap and hot stone bibimbap is the rice on the bottom of a bowl. Since the hot stone bowl stays quite hot for a while, and as a result, rice on the bottom gets scorched.

So when you eat Hot stone bibimbap, you can taste the thin crust of scorched rice.

As you can tell, I tried Hot stone bibimbap instead of normal bibimbap. It was good! It's served with red sauce and a seaweed soup. A seaweed soup was a really nice complement.

One thing that can be improved in terms of customer experience is that they do not serve you water. You need to ask for water.

You can choose a kind of meat. I chose pork. And the rice...

Foods pretty decent for a food court. Maybe a little in the greasy side. But it’s expensive.

Seafood pancake was about fifteen dollars. I’d say it’s enough for a meal but you wouldn’t want just that for a meal.

So we also got the short ribs. Flavorful but too sweet. It does come with rice and soup but the soups a little bland. Not worth thirty dollars at all.

They do have prepared foods also. Suns look pretty yummy.

Order at counter and seat yourself. Cleanliness is determined by whoever...