To celebrate a friend’s birthday in the early of
September, we had brought the birthday girl to a Korean barbeque restaurant in
Kepong area, called 다오래 (Daorae). It is well known for being visited by popular Korean artists and
bands, making it a must-visit-place for the Malaysian K-pop fans to get closer
to its culture, and has numerous outlets all over Malaysia. Despite that,
Daorae serves authentic and freshly-made Korean traditional dishes, and most
importantly, with reasonable price!
As soon as we entered the restaurant, we were
greeted by the enthusiastic waiters with “안녕하세요 (Annyeong-haseyo)” which means “Hello”. The wall is filled with artists’ autographed
posters and pictures taken with the staff. If you were in the restaurant, you
would definitely notice that their table arrangements as well as the
decorations are neat and clean, providing customers a good place to hang out
and have meals at.
The restaurant itself has two stories, however
according to the owner, the upper floor is only open from 5.30pm onwards for
weekdays and full day for weekends.
After ordering a few popular main dishes, we
were given a bowl of seaweed soup each and a variety of Korean side dishes such
as Kimchi, black bean paste and tofu as appetizers.
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The first dish came was 삼겹살 (Sam-gyup-sal). It is consisted of grilled pork belly meats. The friendly waiter had assisted us to grill the meat and cut it
into pieces.
I was drooling when my all-time favourite, 떡볶이 (Ddeok-bo-kki), came following the
meat dish. This is a dish of sliced spicy rice cakes, egg, fish cakes,
vegetables and seasonings, commonly sold on the streets in Korea. Frankly
speaking, I am practically not good in eating spicy food, not when it comes to
this Korean rice cake!
We ordered 삼게탕(Sam-gye-tang) as well,
which is literally translated as chicken ginseng soup. It was my first time
trying this dish although I had been eating Korean food for many times. With
the addition of traditional herbs, the essence of the chicken dissolves well in
the soup. For a second I even thought it was the traditional chicken
soup!
The last dish was the korean pancake, called
Pa-jeon. Apparently the steps of making pa-jeon are similar to that of western
pancake (and the taste of the pancake as well), except that pa-jeon comes with
vegetables and seafood such as squid and prawns in it.
Not forget to mention that for desserts, fresh
and juicy watermelons and a bowl of ginger tea were served at the end of our
meal.
The total bill turned out to be RM165, including
10% of government tax and service tax each. With the reasonable pricing and
satisfying services, I would say that this restaurant deserves a second visit!
*Non-halal
Rating: 8.5/10
Tel: 03 - 6257 8016
Address: 17-1 Jalan Metro Perdana 7 51200 Kuala Lumpur
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