Seoul Garden – Not Good
1669 days agoIf you are living in Singapore, I am pretty sure you have heard of this joint called Seoul Garden. It’s sort of a “Korean” Barbeque restaurant. Well, it claims to be a Korean Barbeque restaurant but it’s actually a fast food joint that serves buffet style food which you have to cook yourself. Yes, most of the food you have to “burn” it yourself and I find that it is not actually Korean. So what you do is to take raw food like chicken meat or fish meat or whatever and go back to your seating area and fry it with the provided grill. Hence they have the name Barbeque.
The funny thing is that they don’t provide you with oil or grease to oil your grill. So after a while, your grill will get dry and the meats will get stuck on the grill. So you will have to change the entire grill itself. I was wondering why don’t they provide their customers with oil and let them cook their food properly? Is it so difficult to provide a little bottle of oil on the table?
My biggest complain about Seoul Garden is the food. The food provided is reasonably fresh (I really don’t know whether it is fresh or not since it is all going to be fried) but somehow not tasty at all. Even after you barbeque is, it still doesn’t taste good. Seriously, barbeque food should be tasty but it seems not the case here. Oh, they have different types of meats but the variety isn’t wide enough. After one or two rounds to the “collection” point, you will have seen (and perhaps taken) the entire menu. The desserts are just normal ice-cream or some pretty disgusting looking ice shavings. Sometimes they will have this “promotion” item like satay or fried chicken to entice you. But in actual fact, all they have is like 10 pieces in all and you will have to wait like for an hour to see another 10 pieces being placed at the collection point. Immediately someone will take the 10 pieces and you will have to wait another for an hour and try your luck again. That’s stupid. A restaurant with seatings for 100 over persons and 10 pieces of fried chicken?? Come on!
Another complain I have is that the service is pretty bad. Most of the staff there are either dead or dying, just like those working in Long John Silvers. Or some of them might even be Zombies, who are not afraid of the sun. Only the managers are in one way or another the live ones there. Well, there is like only one manager per restaurant so you know what it is like there. And the place is always so oily. We were there early at 12pm and the place is already sticky and oily. Let’s all say “Yucks”!
I am sure by now you think that their prices are cheap. Well, you will be surprised, they are not. Although they have stated (you know, the posters outside the restaurant) their price to be 15 bucks per person or so, you actually pay 20 over. Service charge, GST and drinks adds to the total. So unless you are going to eat a buffet without any drinks, you will have to fork out more.
Well, this is exactly the same problem a lot of fast food joints in Singapore suffer from. I think that they believe that a fast food joint should only serve crappy food and provide substandard service so they are all aiming to archieve this plateau of excellence. Thanks for making my meals all so enjoyable.
