Korean Recipes, Videos, and Restaurant Reviews
Last couple months have been a disaster... everything you could have imagined happened. But I'm back on my feet again and moving on...FORWARD 'cause "..I know He watches me..." (from His Eyes on the Sparrow I recommend SELAH) So I'm back!
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If you live in MD, remember couple days ago? Our neighborhood had terrible Wind storm?!
While I was sleeping I could hear the thunder and the wind clashing on our house...(our house is on the top of the hill too..) I thought our roof was going to crumble down or something since I heard this large THUD! But I was still alive so I went back to sleep.
In the morning...my mom, Young, woke and and as always opened the back door to the deck for Nine for his um 'morning ritual'...and realized the back yard somehow 'looked' wider and brighter than usual...Hmmmm
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Hello everyone,
I'm still here...been taking pictures but got slower with the weather getting so cold~Brrrrrrrr
Radio stations are reminding us constantly that it's going to be one of those coldest winters with lots of snow and strong winds...
So~ Cold!
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On September 7, 2009 I was going Rt. 100 westbound to get to Ellicott City around 7pm. Snowden River Pkwy exit usually is the one with some traffic but that day...it was a real traffic! Was anybody else there? Or actually witnessed it?
At first I thought it was construction going on or something... but then they blocked off ALL lanes and made all cars to take a detour through Snowden Exit and so many police cars. Something happened but I didn't know what was going on. I'm not high tech or anything so I had to wait till I come home and found out that there was a really bad motorcycle accident that killed a guy and one in shock trauma. Both were riding motorcycles and collided. It must have been a really bad scene since they blocked about a mile of Rt. 100.
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It was a nice sunny winter day so I decided to take a short walk to our Centennial Park in Ellicott City, MD. This park seems to be beautiful every season!
I love this park! I had to take some pictures...Let's see...
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(October 2009) I don't know when this happened but after trying to get customers with different systems...they failed to keep quality...and today when I passed by I found out that this Restaurant is OUT OF BUSINESS...
Wong Gal Bi Korean BBQ Restaurant has been through rough times and lots of changes. But I'm not sure how many changes were there for the management.
1.They tried charcoal BBQ but didn't work. I think they had a safety problem or something.
2. Then they started BBQ buffet (which wasn't really buffet) and this didn't work either. I didn't like it because they would bring a default meat combination which included meat I don't like and we had to ask the servers to bring more meat every time. I love to eat and I mean I can eat and my friends can eat too. After asking them more couple times servers started to pressure us to stop. What kind of buffet is that? So I stopped going there.
3.Then I heard they changed into different Korean BBQ buffet style AGAIN. (I'm not sure of the change in management though.). The good news was that it actually became a real buffet style with lower price of dinner around $12.99-$15.99 (?). However, I guess some people still didn't like it since they only had pork, chicken, and bulgogi and no GALBI. Korean BBQ is all about Galbi if you want to get your money worth for BBQ meat. I didn't mind that much though since it's cheaper than other Korean BBQ and pretty good Samgyupsal (like bacon.)
4.And I guess many people complained? They changed one more time! They added marinated Galbi, Ssang Galbi (not marinated/plain), and Joomooluk (marinated short steak) with increase in price to $17.99. I think it's still good price with what's all included since if you go to regular Korean Restaurant you need to spend more than $20 per person for BBQ. However, different restaurants have combo meal of their own. So you have to investigate some more and choose your favorite I guess. It's All-You-Can-Eat BBQ after all, which means it's more quantity than quality. If you are looking more of quality, I suggest that you go somewhere else.
So enough about their changes. I went there last weekend and liked it a lot. (I liked it since change number 3 LOL) Shall we look into it?
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For years after long hours of shopping in Columbia Town Center in MD, whenever I have no energy to go on anymore, I find myself automatically going to the food court and get in line for chicken teriyaki. It's like part of the routine in Columbia Mall for me. They always ask double meat and fried rice. If you are not used to English in asian accents, you might just say "ok" (or you really might want that.) I don't really like fried rice so I usually just say what I want. I always get "Chicken Teriyaki with steamed rice and veggies." Yum Yum!!! I also always ask for some hot sauce (to the cashier) and teriyaki sauce over the top (to the cook.) They used to have "Sriracha" hot sauce but now they give you some prepacked hot sauce that's milder and more vinegarish? I still like their hot sauce though... as long as I have some kind of hot sauce I will be alright. Ha ha. And judging from the long lines I always see. I think it's a routine for others as well. Good price and filling too!
So...Are you one of us?
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I went to Jong Kak restaurant in Baltimore city, MD.
It probably is one of the oldest Korean restaurant in Baltimore area. The interior decoration or the restrooms are not as attractive as their food. This restaurant is known for indoor charcoal BBQ of Galbi (Korean style ribs). If you would like to eat Samgyeopsal (or Samgyupsal), pork belly meat, you don't use charcoal BBQ. Instead, they brought out the portable gas range with a grill pan the last time I went there.
Oh! And be aware that there is another restaurant right next to JongKak. I've never been to the other one, but Jongkak is the left one.
Jong Kak servers were very nice and they actually smiled at us! They constantly changed our grill whenever it got too burnt, kept on refilling our veggies and sidedishes. The food was great too. Galbi marinade wasn't too salty and just right for me. I think we ate three bowls of scallion salad, couple refills of banchan, and couple refills of pickled radish. And at the end the servers STILL smiled at us.
So overall, I recommend this place for a BBQ night. I wanna go back for more! Mmmmmmmmm...!
This time we wanted to do some Galbi BBQ. We ordered 2 servings of marinaded Galbi. The price was around $20s per serving. It may be little expensive, but you'll know that it is worth eating when you see that you get the following:
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Tian just opened last September. It's a Korean-Chinese restaurant and supposed to be the third franchise from Centreville, VA.
I went to Tian the first week they opened. As soon as I walked in, I realized that they did spend some money in interior design. Compared to other Korean restaurants interior was better than any other except that the seating arrangement was too tight and felt like one giant cafeteria table. Other customers (total strangers) were only about a foot away from me. That was uncomfortable.
Servers, whew... wasn't trained at all. But it seems like all the Korean restaurants don't emphasize in training their employee about the importance in customer service. No one smiled, no one was being nice. They were all confused and weren't providing customer service. They were just 'delivering' food.
Enough about the service. This is not the first time I had problem with service in Korean restaurants. I also took some pictures of food I ordered.
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I went to Choptank River bridge on Saturday, August 30. I don't know if it was the traffic scare, but we had NO traffic problem Eastbound. 
However, I saw westbound cars stuck in traffic probably because at that time they only opened one lane westbound. 
With luck I was able to avoid ANY traffic both ways (If there were any that is...)! But my sister wanting to visit Longwood Garden, PA got stuck in traffic real bad that she had to turn around. Maybe everyone turned their way to the other way and ended up getting into another traffic jam.
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