Kunjip Restaurant - Review

Intro
Kunjip Restaurant - Recommended
9W 32nd St, New York 10001
Btwn 5th Ave and Broadway
Phone: 212-216-9487

Randomly checked out Kunjip since me and the fiancee had to rock out our registry at Macy's. Ended up with Kunjip since we wanted to try a new restaurant and Kunjip was brimming with people - all others were completely empty. Verdict - a complete what the f moment with the phenomenal kimchee chigae...definitely the best I've ever had. I've always felt that restaurants in the Korean district were always pretty average and overpriced. This place definitely breaks the mold. Overall, I give the restaurant an 83/100.

My Menu

1) Vegetable Bimbimbop :(
2) Kimchee Chigae ***

:( What the F - in a bad way
* Good
** Great
*** What the F – in a good way

Dish Comments
1) A pretty subpar bimbimbop. Not very flavorful even after adding lots of spicy sauce. The fiancee assumed this s because the lack of egg, meat, and toasted rice since this wasn't cooked in the stone pot.
2) Kimchee chigae is basically a spicy stew consisting of kimchee and pork. Usually, the pork is lacking in quantity or super dry - the cut served is generally the tenderloin. Not so here my friends. First, the broth is soooo flavorful - deep, rich, spicy. Kimchee is perfectly tender and then the ridiculously awesome pork. Basically they use pork belly, which makes the pork so f'n tender and flavorful.

Overall Restaurant Experience (83/100)

• Food 8.3/10 – Phenomenal Kimchee Chigae dish. Can't wait to try other dishes there.
  
• Service 7.3/10 – Service is OK. Food comes out in a decent amount of time, but servers aren't necessarily nice unless you speak Korean - we do not.
  
• Atmosphere 7.5/10 – Looks like most other Korean restaurants on 32nd street. Wood tables and walls. Crowd consisted of only Koreans (families and groups). Got there at 12pm on a Sunday for 2 people with no reservations and was seated promptly. 15 minutes later the place was packed and probably was at least a 20 minute wait.
  
• Price 8.0/10 – Price was so worth the Kimchee Chigae dish - $10. However, the other dishes seem pricier - $15-20.
  

Closing Comments
Definitely recommended for the Kimchee Chigae dish and I am 100% going back. Other dishes maybe suspect though based on the subpar bimbimbop.