Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Arirang

I can't believe it's been a year since I last posted.  I mean to post more, and I have posts that are saved as drafts, but I just never got around to actually posting them.  Last year I didn't get to check out many places locally, but I did get to visit some pretty awesome places in Australia.  Since it was a while ago, I'm not sure what the best way of posting would actually be.

Anyways, locally, yesterday I took a friend out to lunch for a super belated birthday.  Due to her strict one hour lunch break, we had to stay super close to work.  The restaurant that we had both wanted to go to and was craving turned out to be closed Tuesday and Wednesdays.  So we went next door to Arirang.  Arirang is a well known Korean BBQ restaurant in Mississauga (from what I hear at least).  Since it was lunch time, we didn't go for the Korean BBQ option and ordered just a bulgogi bibimbap, and a soontofu with pork.  The first thing that arrived was a small, almost teacup sized cup of congee.  Tasted ok.  The banchans came next.  There were only 5 items, there was fried fish paste, kimchi, seaweed, bean sprouts, and potato.  Mostly ok, nothing special.  I would have preferred the kimchi to have been fermented a bit longer as it was still a bit too 'raw' for my liking.  Friend devoured her bibimbap, which came steaming hot in the stone bowl.  My soontofu came second.  The tofu that came in my stew seemed way firmer than what i'm used to seeing in the stew.  Then as i stirred i noticed there was seafood in my stew, which was one of the options of soontofu you can choose from.  I waved the waitress over and told her I didn't order seafood soontofu, and that I ordered pork.  She looked at me funny and said "You can't eat seafood?".  No lady, the problem isn't that I can't eat seafood, I don't want to eat seafood.  I did't order seafood because I don't want it.  She took it back without any apologies and later on brought what I had ordered.  No real complaints taste wise, just really not that special either.

We were too rushed to eat for me to remember to take any pictures, sorry!

Arirang
1177 Central Parkway W,
Unit  72
Mississauga, ON
L5C4P3

Phone: (905) 804-1880

Hours:  Monday - Sunday 1100a - 1100p
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