Daorae Korean BBQ Restaurant

Recently, I when with Chui Yan and her mother to a Korean restaurant in Kota Damansara to have dinner. We've seen it before a few times, it has quite a prominent signboard at a corner lot above a mamak restaurant.

The reason I like Korean BBQ is that they really pamper you. The waiters cook the meat for you and do everything else. No need to know when to turn the meat over. I've tried the Korean BBQ restaurants in Sri Hartamas and even the ones in SS2. They're good. My personal favourite is the one in SS2 opposite Coffee Bean... forgot it's name.






Anyway, the first impression of this restaurant is that you have to take the elevator to the third floor. In my mind, I was thinking... if I over eat, I can always exercise by walking down. As we sat down, the service was pretty fast. I looked at their place mat, looks like this was their fourth branch. Looks like they're doing well.




I like the newer Korean BBQ's that use this type of stove. The type where they have an exhaust overhead that sucks away the charcoal and grease smoke.



This is the Tauchu condiments that they serve. I wonder if Koreans have Soya Sauce like we do as a condiment also?



Green Tea as usual. Helps with digesting all the meat later.


The one thing that impressed me about this restaurant was the service. This waiter who was serving us was extremely attentive. He was super efficient. I looked around the restaurant and peeked into the kitchen, almost all their staff wasn't korean. They either looked Burmese or Pakistani. This waiter of ours was quite intuitive to our needs. He knew when to get things for us and he never got in the way even though he was around often to BBQ the meat for us.

Check out the number of side dishes they served us. My favourite are those spicy cockles they serve.




This is like the Korean version of an Otak-Otak. Looked like one, but didn't taste like one. I think it was made of flour.



Look at that purple colour. Looked like Barney barfed all over my salad! I didn't eat it. The purple sauced scared me away.



The usual Kimchi side dish. This one wasn't too spicy unlike the other places so I eat this one. Chui Yan prefers spicy stuff.







We had pork and lamb. The pork wasn't well marinated. Somehow I think it wasn't marinated long enough. The lamb was good though, the marinate was very sweet.



After eating all that meat, I had to visit the loo. I had to make space for all that extra food! I was pleasantly surprised by the toilet in the restaurant. Check out their toilet bowl. It was cooler than some of the toilet's I've seen posh hotels I tell you!

Overall, I like this restaurants mostly for it's excellent service. Chui Yan left the waiter a RM5 tip but he was so confused over it, the manager had to explain what was a tip to him. Poor guy, never got a tip before I think.

The captain even escorted us to the elevator. That was nice. It was kind of dark at the stairwell. Looks like I didn't get the chance to walk down after the meal after all!