Dinner at bQ Korea

Recently, we tried Korean food at bQ Korea, located at Far East Square.  It is always crowded at lunch hours but it is easy to get a seat in the evening hours.  It is not an authentic Korean restaurant as the side dishes is a mixture of Chinese, Malay and Western.

For appetisers, we were served 8 small side dishes before our main course arrived.

Ikan Bilis, Steamed Pumpkin with carrots, Kimchi, Steamed & Marinated Zucchini (cucumbers).

Fried toufu with bean paste, Sliced sausages (hotdog) with bean paste, baked potatoes in bean paste, hard boiled egg.

There are lots of main courses to choose from.   Tonkatsu or Pork Cutlet Rice Set (below) is one of the dishes.

The Bean Paste Soup comes with a bowl of rice.  For SGD10, you get a portion of a crab, 2 pieces of prawns, squid, mushrooms, toufu.

The Spicy Rice Cake dish is very very spicy.  Sauce is rather thick.

We had seafood pancake as they have run-out of Kimchi pancake.  It is not crispy enough though.

The shop is located at 70 Telok Ayer Street #01-01 Far East Square, Singapore.  It is located near the famous Tan Hock Seng shop, and facing China Square Central.

It's opening hours are as follows:
Mon–Fri: 11.30am–2.30pm, 5.30pm–9.30pm
Sat: 11.30am–9.30pm
(Closed on Sundays)

Korean meal

Had lunch with a colleague last Friday and we had a nice meal. Service was great and the place is quite popular.

Food was great and we enjoyed our meal.

I'm back from South Korea

Just returned from an 8-day South Korea vacation. There are 20 people on this trip excluding our SA Tours Singapore guide Barry. Our Korean guide is Harry who conducted the tour in Mandarin.

We visited many places of interests ~ Mount Sorak, Yongpyong Dragon Valley (the filming site of the popular Korean drama "Winter Sonata"), Decksan Spa Castle, Jeju Island, Lotte World, Yongin Eveland Theme Park, Kyongbok Palace, Presidential Blue House.

Weather has been quite cold in the morning and warmth in the late morning and afternoon. Just simply wonderful. For our meals, we have Ginseng Chicken Soup with Ginseng Wine (Samgetang), Korean Barbeque, Korean Seafood Steamboat, Pork Bulgogi, Bibimbap, Jeju Abalone Porridge, etc. It's just simply delicious. Every meal is accompanied by 2 types of kimchi - spicy and non-spicy.  On our last day, we also tried spicy fried Rice Cakes (Chao Nian Gao).  It was simply delicious. Yummy! 

The only thing I didn't get to try was Zha Jiang Mian.

We have also managed to see the Cherry Blossoms - both pink and white flowers. Lucky us. We thought by the time we arrived, all the flowers would have been gone!  Luck was on our side, I guess.