Comments on: PASTORAL KOREAN RESTAURANT

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:40:21 +0000

I was looking at Eddie's comment and wondering what place he's thinking of in the Assi Plaza. Does he mean the restaurants inside it or one in the Assi shopping center? I'm just curious because I haven't been to Assi in quite a while and would do anything to drag my family over there.

And I was sad to hear about Pastoral caught fire, as I was actually hoping to try it soon.

By: Walnut

Walnut — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:32:31 +0000

As neighbors and past patrons of Pastoral, our heart breaks for the proprietors and occupants of the building that caught fire last night. We are very glad that no one lost their life in the fire.

We hope that Pastoral will once again open its door to customers in 2008.

By: Eddie

Eddie — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:50:43 +0000

The service here is suspect. I walked in and had to basically walk all the way back to the kitchen and yell at them in my native Korean to have them wake up and actually sit me down.

The "ban-chan" is okay, but again filled with MSG. Miran's ban-chan is absolutely horrible. The kim-chi wasn't even close to being ripe and the kakk-duggi was about a day from being too sour. The odd thing about Miran was that there was no Korean waitstaff. The Koreans who were eating there were all Americanized and couldn't speak a lick of Korean. So all you non-Koreans or really Caucasians using that rule that if you see a bunch of Asians it must be good!! What a joke – The Asians that were eating there wouldn't know good Korean if it fell on their head!

And if you're looking for Jja-jang myun – a Korean restaurant isn't the place to go. It's a dish made by Chinese-born Koreans called Hwa-Gyo. Just like Chinese Food in America is bastardized for our taste buds, they do the same thing in Korea. All the good places have closed or changed owners and now suck. There's one on 5th in the NE and another on Castor past Sam-Won, but they both are horrible now. The one on Castor used to be great as the chef there made his own noodles (myun). The new rumor is that up in North Wales at the Assi Plaza is where the latest and greatest place is. Haven't been up there and really don't trust the taste buds of the peeps who passed along that rumor.

By: sneed

sneed — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 22:52:00 +0000

My fiance and I are both vegetarian, and when we went here last week, we found that they had an entire vegetarian menu, with nearly 20 options! I just wanted to add this as an update, since your original post says that there aren't any "offical" veggie options.

I had their dumpling soup, which was very good but a little too peppery, and my fiance had the kimchi soup, which he really enjoyed. We also both really liked the fresh tofu they set out for us with our panchan. I obviously can't speak for the meat-eaters out there, but I would definitely reccomend this place to my fellow vegetarians and also to vegans.

By: yoko

yoko — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 19:31:01 +0000

We went here this past weekend– I got the Kop-dol bibimbap. I liked it a lot– the crispy rice has always been my favorite part of this dish. Thought both the kimchi and oi-kimchi were fine. We're definitely going back to this place. Thumbs up.