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2010-07-15
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K-Town to me is like an unknown territory, but little I remember that I was supposed to remember where things are, after all I should've walked some of the streets during the earliest years of my life. I was less than 4 years old, and my stern grandfather took us out every now and again. The unspoiled simplicity of the neighborhood is beginning to be replaced by more Westernized neighborhood joints, and yes, more variety of different things -- foreign, things, if I may add.But fishball noodles a
But fishball noodles are always a local thing. It's only until recent years did people start taking apart all the elements leading up to a bowlful of noodles, with fishballs and broth. This day, on absolutely no idea what to eat for dinner, I came into this shop, hoping to score some good fishballs, only be confronted by a team of staff who would prefer to be somewhere else other than in the shop opening for business.
It was the television, the glaring screen with something happening -- There is always something happening. Restaurants with television often get weird service. It's either very attentive (because someone's always NOT watching TV), or really bad (because everyone is watching it). This one belong to the latter, and between trying to order to ordering at a time where diners were scarce (like, I'm the only one) 5 minutes was too long a time for that.
Ordering may take time, but for the food to arrive didn't. Aside from fish balls, I also added house made pork and vegetable dumplings as well. It arrived within minutes (before the entire team of staff went back to the TV). The fish ball itself was white and spongy, a little bit too spongy I'd say, so much that it really did bounce back when I requested a small dish for chili oil. The bouncy fish ball tasted very fishy but not at all dense with fish though, it was very light as one nearly couldn't tell it's fish except for the taste of it. The dumplings, gigantic dumplings to be specific, looked alright. Yet one bite into it proved myself wrong. The dumpling itself, supposedly chive and pork, was all chive and little pork, which makes the filling tasting very "grassy", almost a coarseness to it. The overlapping wrapper of the dumpling clings together during cooking and the texture was very starchy, not at all flowing and soft either. The noodles, were thin and translucent. They were also impossible to be picked up in bunches.
Throughout the course of the consumption of this bowl of noodle nobody uttered a word except for responses on what's happening on the television. The noodles truly weren't very good, but everything was so tidy and the floors are squeaky clean, that, gave it some points. But the food is not quite as expected, and my expectation for a fish ball noodle shop in the neighborhood wouldn't be very high at all.
Looking at the staff and the food -- I couldn't stop but wonder, wouldn't anyone want to be anywhere else?
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