Aly has been frequenting this place without me!!! She’s been here another 2 times with her colleagues already

We brought Fai and Kelly down today for my second visit to the place

Side dishes today consisted of cockles! Aly was the only one eating them… Kelly didn’t touch them … hmm…

Asparagus …. hmm… just wondering why the side dishes weren’t the same as those I had the last time I was here….
There were similar stuff though… the kimchi and eggplant was also served….
Is this done on purpose so that patrons wouldn’t get bored?
Or the boss just bought whatever ingredients was cheap on that particular day?

Seafood Pancake … Fai said this was good….
I felt that it tasted like carrot cake with seafood

Kelly ordered a whole Ginseng chicken for us to share…

You can order half though…. no worries lol

So nice of Kelly to help scoop out the ginseng chicken and soup for us…

Since I’ve tried the Beef and Octopus steamboat previously, we ordered the Budae Steamboat for 3 today

It came with noodles … you can also order plain rice to go with it or add more noodles at additional cost

Budae Steamboat…. consists of tofu, mushrooms, vegetables, sausages and luncheon meat.
Don’t ask me what kind of luncheon meat was served… and where too lol

Aly started going crazy again mixing lots of rice with lots of soup…. I think I’ll go broke if I brought her to Seoul

She told me that her colleagues preferred this to the beef and octopus steamboat…

I personally prefer the beef and octopus steamboat , the soup was much sweeter and tasty.

This Budae one was salty probably due to the luncheon meat and sausages.

Just preference I guess… just as well that we had luncheon meat ‘cos Fai was with us lol

Just what is with you and luncheon meat? (He’s the only person I know so far who has luncheon meat in his steamboat)

Jeju Korean Restaurant
38 Seah Street Singapore 188394
http://korean.jeju.com.sg/

Summary

Food Menu Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Food Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Value for money Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Ambience Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Service Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

Mario Kitchen…. what’s a Korean restaurant doing with a name like Mario?

It makes me think of the plumber in red and blue (Nintendo icon Super Mario) and Mario is italian …weird…

Thankfully I think we will never see Luigi (Mario’s brother – the one with the green overalls lol ) Japanese restaurant or something mainly ‘cos Luigi can be mistaken for “LUGI” … no local restaurant will want to lose money

Finally got here when it’s open… When the cat wants korean… you feed her korean.

Not alot of stuff in the menu eh? Steamboat… bbq… etc….

Thought that’s the norm with all korean restaurants?

I WANT THIS!!!

So much for service… where’s the waitress?

Golly… our free side dishes are exactly the same as the ones in the banner
Kimchi… sucked… tasted like detergent
Anchovies… I don’t eat them … so can’t comment
Long beans… weird… crunchy though….

We ordered a combo set… beef bbq and seafood steamboat …

Aly didn’t like the beef bbq thought… she said it had a weird taste… plus she was disappointed that it was like more of a dish rather than actual bbq … this I couldn’t argue with her …
I guess I would’ve had more fun cooking the beef over a bbq…. why call it bbq when it’s not?

Next to arrive was the seafood steamboat… Will the bowl be able to fit all that?

Aly still smiling despite her not liking the beef…. hmm…

Seafood steamboat… VERY bad choice…. will not let Aly make such decisions in the future

What’s inside? Prawns… squid … clams… 2 mussels … and erm… one fish head …

Yes… one fish head…. eeeeks!!!!

First of all… it looked revolting…. secondly… it made the entire dish inedible due to it making the whole soup super fishy both in taste and smell

Bad…really bad… it was so bad… we abandoned the meal, paid up and left …

You guys know me… I hate wasting food and don’t do so if I can help it… I couldn’t help it today

It made the steamboat at Ting Yuan the other day seemed good…

I’m not sure about the other dishes they offer… but our choices were all wrong … sigh…

I’m afraid to come back to try the other stuff after this experience I must say …..

Lucky the beef was at least edible to me … which lifted it’s food rating from 1/2 to 1

Oh… and Aly wasn’t smiling anymore when we left … even the kitty couldn’t stomach the fishy steamboat ……

Mario Kitchen Korean Restaurant
8 Liang Seah Street
Tel: 6333 9379

Summary

Food Menu Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Food Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
Value for money Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
Ambience Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
Service Rating: 1 out of 5 stars