Obok Restaurant — Restaurant in Santa Clara

If you want just great Korean food, especially soondae, without caring too much about interior, atmosphere, cleanliness, etc., then this is it. Obok is a pure statement for "food matters most".

And when you are at Obok, you must try their soondae-guk - the soup with soondae in it. It really is the signature, the heart and soul of true Korean comfort food. The soup that drains your woes and grogginess from a hangover.

The owner and the server ladies are super nice and would love to always give you more. You feel love, rather than a transaction. And yes, the restaurant won't come across as the clean, modern, date-night, type of fare. But that's okay. Sometimes you just want that love felt from your aunt or grandma.

You just simply have to love Obok and it'll...

0/5, misleading menu pictures

I ordered the Nae Jang Sool Guk (spicy intestine soup with veggies) and it came out looking extremely different than on the menu.

It was supposed to come with enoki mushrooms, but it came out with no mushrooms at all. I had to ask our waitress about it, and I received a roughly sliced button mushroom instead. Not the same thing at all…

The picture also showed blood sausage, bean sprouts, etc. and my soup didn’t have any of that. You can see my pictures for what the menu item looked like, and what I actually ended up eating.

The soup itself was also way too salty. I hate giving a rating like this to a small, locally owned place but considering the prices, the taste, and the blatantly false menu pictures, I can’t give it a...

The food here was ok. But the problem was that the pictures of the food shown in the menu is COMPLETELY different from what you ordered. I ordered the Pork cutlets, and in the picture it also had corns and rice. When it came all it had was the Pork cutlets, said, and sauce. The workers were very nice to their native people (koreans). I am a korean and they were being very friendly. But when these chinese couple came in, the workers were being very disrespectful and started agreeing with the couple that "they didn't get their order right." But I was right next to them hearing it when they were ordering. Also the service was very slow, with...