Korea House- Orient Express Restaurant — Restaurant in Seaside

When I checked these very limited yet brief reviews on this Korean Restaurant, I felt obligated that I put mine here to disclose what we experienced a month ago. For the lunch, I ordered Seafood Toufu soup and my wife the Beef Toufu Soup. At that time, the whole restaurant was only 40% full, and by no means busy. A lady who seemed to be the owner was busy, though, chatting with her guests happily and loudly which was fine to me. After the waitress, a very nice and polite lady, brought our bowls up, we found that mine was ok but my wife's bowl just had some Kimchi and Toufu. There was NOT even a particle of BEEF at all after our microscopical exam. Basically it was a Kimchi soup! And the price was over $20 for that little bowl ! When we showed the bowl to the waitress, and owner came up and said in her language that she would take it back to add some beef !!! We of course refused to let her do so simply because this was NOT the right way to cook. We understood everybody made mistake in life , and we were not upset at all till she said to the waitress that this is the way the BOWL should be. I disagreed and showed her the menu where the statement clearly indicated that the bowl should have BEEF, TOUFU, VEGETABLES etc. She unhappily agreed to take away the order. I finished mine and left. The chance for us to go back to this restaurant seems to be very narrow ! So, if you are going to patron this restaurant, check your BEEF bowl to make sure there is at least ONE small...

Second time I’ve been here both received poor service and food that is not from a typical authentic Korean restaurant. Ordered Bulkogi with Ssam and the Ssam included iceberg lettuce which is not what real Korean dishes include. I explained to the owner that all othe Korean restaurants don’t serve iceberg lettuce it should contain red leaf lettuce. He told me I was wrong lol I’m Korean and been to thousands of Korean restaurants and not one of them served iceberg lettuce. They also didn’t give us jalapeño, fresh garlic, and dweng jong. I had to ask for this as well. A couple months later I went in to order just a cup of Kimchi and was given a table spoon full of Kimchi in a small clear container and was charged 5.49. I explained to them they usually give me a cup and not a small side dish container. They told me it was going to be 20 dollars I said fine. They charged me 16.39 more so I gave hem 16.40 and the lady shut the cash register without giving me my penny lol. They came back with the cup of Kimchi that was not filled to the top. They absolutely lost me as a customer. I live in Monterey and this is the closest restaurant to me but now will make the drive to Marina where they have REAL AUTHENTIC KOREAN RESTAURANTS and the service...

Service: zero stars. One of the patrons went into the kitchen to call the owner out to attend us when we waited in the hall for a good 5 minutes. I had to chase the owner down to get us water with ice. Mind you, the place had only 2 tables with customers when we got there. Food: minus three stars. Probably one of the worst Korean restaurants I have ever eaten in. I visited over 1,000 Korean restaurants worldwide to include many in South Korea, and can’t quite remember this bad taste experience after one from L.A. last year. Salty, tasteless, uncooked, not fresh, under and over seasoned in some side dishes and the list goes on. I hate wasting food and I normally try to eat everything that is on the table even if I am full, but I had to let a lot of their food go wasted. Bottom line: I would never go back even if it...