Kimchi Korean Restaurant ~ Mmmm... Tasty ~

Had a really Korean-crazy night shift supervisor named SE around my office and she's sooooo into Korean food and Korea and everything Korean.. and dunno why or how, we talked about Korean restaurants in Penang and she had one in mind that she highly recommended. Hence we decided to go there and sample it ourselves! Of course she's been there a gazillion times but not me, so I asked all the others in my team but they were either not interested or not free, so in the end my team lead Andy, SE, me and another supervisor Steven went for dinner one fine night (you might've guessed that it's not long after we brought up the name of this restaurant!)

So after work, me and Andy rushed to the place called "Kimchi" (how aptly named) near Tanjung Bungah, settled down and had SE took care of our stomach for the night.

Here's the interior:-

Andy's face blocked out to protect his privacy whhahaha...

SE doing the ordering like a pro as she is....

Side dishes...

The veggies to go with the BBQ meat that we're gonna have later on...

The stove - heated up

We urged SE to be our professional cook for the night, and she gladly started off by layering the stove with the onion provided - claiming that it gives extra flavour to the meat that we're gonna barbeque.... hmmm...

And in goes the pork!

Then the Tofu Kimchi soup came....

We were served rice as well..

This is "Chao Nien Kao" - a stir-fried dish....

After cooking pork, we had chicken as well....

together with some oil so it won't burn easily....

Then the beef pan-plate came... everyone dugged into this one :)

With the Stone Rice came shortly after as well... with SE mixing up the rice with some chilli evenly....

And to top everything off, we ordered another serving of the vegetables as we had so much meat to combine with....

And they served us dessert after our filling and long meal... which, according to SE, is made of processed and drained rice (?)

And the VERDICT is..............................

Side dishes : Very nice.. they had a combination of Korean typical side dishes, but added with localised varieties like LaLa, etc.

Stone Rice : Absolutely nice... I've never been a fan of Stone Rice as they tend to overcook especially the rice at the bottom of the stone bowl but this doesn't catch that at all.. maybe coz SE was such a good cook!

Chao Nien Kao : The taste was very unique and full of flavour, with nice textures on the Nien Kao themselves - but not my fancy :)

Beef pan-plate : This is so well marinated that I couldn't have enough of it! Marvelous!!!

Pork & Chicken meat: These were nice BBQ as well... the tastes were not overly powering, nice..........

Kimchi Tofu soup : The soup is really the BEST kimchi tofu soup I had in Penang so far.... the soup base is just so tasty and hasn't got this weird smell when I tried at other Korean restaurants... Must Have!

All in all, the bill came up to about RM 170+ .... which is about RM 40+ per person, and to me, that's not bad of a deal, considering we had 2 types of BBQ meat, 1 meat pan plate, 3 other dishes and all the side dishes with rice and free dessert! Not to mention that I spent RM 60 for just 3 dishes at Seoul Garden last time? And most importantly, all the food are nice!!

I highly recommend this place - it's right opposite Copthorne Hotel - just by the main road, check it out!!!