Korean Restaurant, Singapore

This place (Specialists' Shopping Centre #05-35, 6235-0018) wins the award for having the most creative restaurant name in the world (well, to be fair, I think these guys have been here so long that back then, they were probably one of the first Korean restaurants in Singapore?). Anyway, I'd been here ages ago, and while I remembered the food being decent, I never really made the effort to come back, as I was a bit bummed at the time that they cooked my Korean BBQ in the back for me rather than letting me do it myself (despite the presence of grills on the table). Tonight, we were in the neighborhood, and thus stopped by on the way home for a quick bite. This time, I made sure to tell them that I wanted to cook the stuff myself.

I went straight for some boneless version of kalbi, which they called rosqui or something. To my delight, they provided little dishes of sesame oil and salt to go with it, and - interestingly - some butter to help cook it, even if it didn't really seem necessary. The beef quality wasn't anything spectacular (they claimed to use US beef, BTW), but it did the job. The cold naengmyeon was also refreshing with slices of apple as well as the very frigid (but dressed with scallion) soup.

Something was a bit creepy about this place though. Being only one of two occupied tables in here tonight, the three staff members appeared seriously bored, and basically stood in a line there watching us intently while we ate. It got to a point when I turned and shot a big artificial smile right back at them, after which they finally backed down and tried to occupy themselves with something else to do. These guys were a bit stingy with the kimchi too. Well, that aside, actually I have to admit that I actually did enjoy the food quite a bit. But I'll probably just wait to go to Korea itself or LA rather than make any huge effort to come back.