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2015-08-22
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I truly believe that I inherit my mum’s eating habit , the only different thing is I eat spicy stuff and willing to explore food in different flavor. But, she is definitely a better cook then I do! We are both seafood lovers, and she always complaint that she is yet to try the Soy Sauce Marinated Crab although she travel to Korea in a regular basis (just that My dad is never a fan of seafood, if that make sense). Right, that’s why I decide to take her out for dinner and try this out.Kimberly Str
Kimberly Street, also known as the Korean Street have a good variety of Korean restaurants, while most of them are Korean BBQ focused, the I Tae Won Korean Restaurant is more or less a general Korean cuisine that do cooked food, BBQ as well as the marinated crabs in soy sauce, while most of my friends give a positive feedback to this place I think it is worth to give a try!
Only two of us so we just try to eat something simple! Soy Sauce Marinated Crab which is a must for mum, adding the Pig’s Feet and Cold Buckwheat noodles, and a couple of Ice Yuzu Tea, is more than sufficient!
In Korean restaurants, they serve you a lot of side dish before meal, not just kimchi, fish cakes, pickles, sweet potato, squid etc, this place offer 9 dishes in a row, all homemade! Not just saying they offer a very generous portion, they taste pretty good indeed. My former flatmate is a Korean and his family owns a kimchi farm, so I know what is up to standard side dishes. The sweet potatos and lotus roots are really good, I liked the kimchi too since it is tangy enough.
The Soy Sauce Marinated Crab came after the side dish, consist of two whole crab and they are all chopped into pieces, lots of crab roe as you can see from the photos. We had some seaweed rice to go with it, just because eating the crab just by itself would be relatively more salty! The crab meat has been soaked in the soy sauce long enough so is fully flavor. Trust me, eating a bite of rice plus the crab roe, made me feel that I was in heaven. It was just so good, may not be as good as eating them in Korea, but is good enough.
Pig’s feet came next. Um… it was huge, good for 4 to consume rather than 2! Comes with sauce, red cabbage, cucumber, cabbage ! The pork knuckle has been cooked in sauce for long hours( taste so much like lo shui to me), and consist a lot of collagen, very tender and tasty! Since it is kinda fatty so it is better to eat with some veges. Lettuce with garlic and chili is included on the side, so we could make some pork knuckle lettuce wraps.
Lastly we had the Cold Buckwheat noodles, no need to explain what it is I guess? The noodles are nice and cold and is good for summer, my tip is no need to add additional vinegar unless you had your first bite and want a sour taste.
The yuzu tea is okay, nothing fancy, I wish they added a bit more yuzu paste in there
It cost us around $900 in total, not very cheap, but consider the quality and how happy mum was, everything is so worth it.
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