Overall: Probably my favourite Korean place now
Food: Korean
Price: $12/ person
Ambiance: Dim and busy like most korean places, with a large tv screen (good place to watch games) and a decent outside patio
Service: Good, the manager was very friendly
Ap Gu Jung Restaurant
1642 Robson St.
Vancouver, BC V6G 1C7
(604) 681- 8252
Last Saturday, Isabel and I made the trek into Vancouver to catch the play, As You Like It, as part of the annual Bard on the Beach festival. Having seen another play two years ago and thoroughly enjoying it, I was excited for this year's as well. The weather was also perfect, with clear blue skies, bright sunshine and the vanier park beach, serving as a picture-perfect backdrop.
The icing on top of the cake, was funnily enough, our dinner expedition. We headed down Robson, either for Ramen or Korean food. After much indecision and footsteps, we settled on Ap Gu Jung, a place we hadn't tried before. It was mostly the restaurant setting, resembling a traditional korean house, and the patio dining that caught my eye.
Both craving something spicy (as always), the spicy kimchi hotpot was a must. It comes with either pork or tuna and we opted for the former. I think it would be pretty spicy by most standards but it was perfect for us. The ingredients of veggies, tofu and pork, were ample and we definitely enjoyed this dish. It would have been even better if they added some 'shrooms.
Our next korean favourite, potato noodles!! Although this looks like a plate of earthworms dug out from the soil, the picture doesn't do it justice. The noodles, spring onions and beef slices soaked up the gravy perfectly and every bite was a piece of heaven. Even though I eat pretty slowly, I polished off my servings in seconds.
Lastly, the banchan- one of my favourite items at korean places. Every dish was very tasty, expect for the bean sprouts but I may be biased because I never really liked them anyway. Despite kimchi being my usual favourite, this time, the seaweed was actually really good- sweet and tangy all at the same time.
Ap Gu Jung is now my favourite korean spot on robson st and I definitely want to go back and try the seafood pancake and some of the meat dishes. The staff were efficient and competent and the manager, friendly. We had a good conversation after dinner and I recommended that they should add beef bugolgi (my favourite) on the menu ;)
Walking up the street after a filling and carbo-laden dinner, my eyes darted around for some dessert... -Sara
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Overall: So good!! Will be back
Food: Japanese Ice Cream Parfait
Price: A little on the high side-$7.50/ cup
Ambiance: Cutesy, wooden interior, channeling traditional Japanese houses
Chicco
1504 Robson St
Vancouver, BC V6G
(604) 633-1286
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| Black Sesame Parfait |
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-Isabel
Sara: I have to add that I REALLY want to go back and try the green tea or hazelnut parfait flavours...let me know if anyone wants to come with!
oooh! looks very yummy! I actually visited THE Ap Gu Jung in Korea! It's the equivalent to Kerrisdale / Kitsalano here! Rich area! :D
ReplyDeleteI was gonna go to the parfait place too but we ended up leaving. We were upset that the cashier didn't let us have a table to ourselves just because we wanted to share ONE parfait. She said that there was a minimum charge for each person. (which didn't make any sense because they had other items that only cost $3 and if we had ordered 2 of those items it would have come up to less than the cost of one parfait anyway)
Sorry for the tardiness...been so busy going through job recruitment at school :S Ya, I absolutely love Ap Gu Jung! The one in korea must be amazinggggg.
ReplyDeleteThe server at the parfait place was pretty mean to the customers after us too. She didn't let them sit down cuz the 50% off was only for take out haha.