The Kitchen - Saint Ives Australia

I love Korean food....and for me The Kitchen is one of the best places around Point Grey for my Korean grub. I really enjoy the stone pot (dolsot bibimbap and the bulgogi especially, which is very flavorful and strong (perfect for my taste! This time I was curious about the ramyun which I never tried at a Korean restaurant but always seen it. I got the shabu-shabu ramyun, and chose mild spice (not really a friend of the heat so much . The noodles really sucked up the soup really fast. There wasn't really enough noodles but the soup was flavorful (don't drink too much, very salty and the other components were perfectly balanced. Poshness: A cross between home-made midnight instant ramen and ramen at a high-ish class place (Jinya....? I wish there were more side dishes for the ramyun and maybe they also should have given us the side dishes at the beginning of the meal!

I really like Korean food, and this is one of my favorite places to go to for my Korean food fix. Compared to other Korean food I've had, this is definitely one of the better places out there. Pricing for the food is pretty reasonable, and portions are also reasonable for one person. I believe there is an extra group tax on groups above 6 people, so I prefer coming here with just a few friends or by myself.

We picked this place because it was walking distance from our friend's place. The place is a little small, and quite popular. We ordered the BBQ pork, BBQ chicken, seafood tofu soup, and vegetarian bimbap. All of them were quite good and we cleaned up every dish, including the side dishes!

With a name like “The Kichen”, we expected it was another one of those Western, rustic, and farm2table restaurants. However, upon closer inspection, The Kitchen turned out to be an authentic Korean family restaurant. We loved the ambiance of The Kitchen. The interior was lit by natural sunlight, and cooled by the breeze outside. Free parking was also easy to find because this wasn’t a busy neighbourhood.

We loved the ambiance of The Kitchen. The interior was lit by natural sunlight, and cooled by the breeze outside. Free parking was also easy to find because this wasn’t a busy neighbourhood.<br/ <br/ Alright, let’s get to the food. As mentioned earlier, The Kitchen serves authentic, home style Korean cuisine: pork bone soup, BBQ short ribs, bibimbap, and hotpot, etc. For convenience, we ordered an appetizer and a hotpot.<br/ <br/ Regular-size yeonuh salad (salmon salad) – $6<br/ It came with “The Kitchen Sauce”. We had no idea what it was made of, but it tasted sweet and tangy. Refreshing starter.<br/ <br/ Bulgogi-Jeongol (Bulgogi hotpot) – $36<br/ For the level of spiciness, we picked “mild”, but the soup wasn’t spicy at all . . It was flavourful nonetheless, and a bit on the sweet side. Ingredients-wise, you get a fair share of veggies proteins. There was also vermicelli in the hotpot as well.<br/ <br/ Our hotpot was losing liquid very quickly because:<br/ <br/ The soup was boiling rapidly<br/ <br/ The ingredients soaked up all the soup<br/ <br/ Near the end everything tasted a bit too salty, and only then the did waitress offered to fill up our pot with more soup. <<br/ <br/ The hotpot came with two bowls of rice, and unlimited side dishes (you’d have to take the initiative to ask for seconds). We really loved the fish cakes! It was a good alternative to the typical potatoes.