Fourth Experience : K-pop Lovers, You Gonna Love This!
What a beautiful Sunday! Sun is up, sky is clear, and our tummies are growling. We're at Citraland, fortunately, so our eyes roll over here and roll over there and roll over here again. We walk all over the mall and still can't choose one eatery because our greedy tummies (or eyes). Took a little while to us for standing in front of one eatery. Since one of us never try this eatery and never try Korean food, so it's decided! Mujigae it is!
Mujigae is a super modern restaurant with Korean food as its main concept. From outside the restaurant, you will see a full glass looking room with a big screen in front of it as tall as human. It is displaying a woman in hanbok, Korean traditional cloth, smiling and waving to us, who pass by.
When we walk in, we see a giant screen above us, playing K-pop music clip. In a few spot we also see TV screen playing Korean food channel, which is leveling our appetite up, hypnotizing our eyes, and making us drooling unwittingly.
Sorry, author, no offense but it's not enough to be said as SUPER modern restaurant.
Hold on, here's the part we talk about it. When we sit on our couch, we see a jar of cutlery: spoons and chopsticks, tissues container, and a tab. Yes, a tablet computer. You don't need to wave to call the waiter making your orders or having your bills. All simply done by tapping your finger. We see menus, make orders, reorders, call a waiter, and having bills on our table's tab. We also can take photos with some Korean theme templates provided and display it on the giant screen that we mentioned. And for you, all K-pop lovers, we bet you gonna love this place. You can request a video clip here and watch your fave idols on giant screen. Just tap it!
Okay, back to our states. As we are drooling while watching the Korean food channel, our foodies are coming too! So, let's eat!!
First meal is called Budaejigae. It is said that Budaejigae is a favorite meal for South Korean army for its flavor, nutrition, and easy to make. The dish comes in raw conditions on a little wok and a single stove, accompanied by kimchi, Korean fermented vegetables, and Korean hot sauce. Inside the wok we find the ingredients neatly arranged: noodle at bottom and on top we find egg, dices of meat, tofu, enoki mushrooms, Chinese cabbage, and pieces of leek.
To cook it, we pour the sauce first. Don't forget to carefully shake it first to mix the sauce well. Then we light the stove. Honestly, we didn't get much attention how to cook it first, so we just leave it by until it's cooked by itself. After a while, we take our chopsticks and we try to mix it and we find brown-blackish thing. Well, your thought is right, our Budaejigae is burned. Well, just a bit. We still can eat it and we really like the taste. So, in our tongues and noses, the mixture of burnt smell and the rest of it make a new layer of flavor texture and we love it! The spiciness of Korean spice are really stand out. The noodle is soft, as well as the tofu and the meat. All of the ingredients make a balance harmony. One of us think that she can eat it all day, if she can stand spicy things though. So, we really really really recommend this dish when you are going out here someday. Just watch the food when cooking.
Bulgogi Package I is our second dish. It contains white rice in metal bowl, red Korean fried chicken, japchae, the famous beef bulgogi, and a little plate of kimchi. We tell you what. If this is your first experience to taste Korean food, maybe buying a package is a good thing to do. You can taste many dishes in one meal price.
Although it has red fire color on it, Korean fried chicken is not spicy. We can taste the pepper hard, but it's nothing compares to the real spicy food. It's pieces of chicken breasts wrapped in crispy flour and marinated with some red sticky spices sauce. Wet outside, juicy inside, and crispy in the middle of it. Rich of texture, the chicken is cooked just right and tender and it has sweet salty taste. One of our favorite too!
Next in the package is called Japchae. It is a noodle dish mixed with vegetables, mushroom, and sprinkles of sesame seeds. The unique part of Japchae is the noodle. Not like ordinary noodles that you'll find in noodle house and made from flour, Japchae noodle is made from some kind of tubers, like potato or yam. We know it as "soun" in Indonesian and we believe it's known as glass noodle in English, but feel free to correct us. Okay, let's go back to our idle Japchae.
The "soun" together along with vegetables and its friends are mixed and sauteed by a slight of soy sauce. A glossy and transparent look Japchae has chewy, smooth and slippery texture that feels like you can drink it. It taste salty in light level and we can taste the sweetness tingling our tongue. Besides its unique texture, we hardly can say it has anything stand out from the dish. But it's still nice to take a trial taste.
Now, the star of this package, the famous Korean beef bulgogi. Similar to teriyaki, beef bulgogi has savory, salty, and a slight of sweet flavor taste inside. At Mujigae it comes with so much sauce and looks like the meat soaks in bulgogi sauce hotspring. What we love about this bulgogi is the slices form of beef. Thin, a bit crumbling into pieces so the flavor really absorb into it, yet big enough to be clamped. Too bad it's not cooked properly so we find few of them are overcooked and make the meat become hard to eat. Still, we love it as main course this noon.
Classic Topokki is our last dish in Mujigae. This sticky chewy thing is processed glutinous rice that marinated and soaked in hot spicy sauce together with fried crispy tofu and something crispy, like fried dumpling skin.
In first bite we can taste many spices here. Hot, definitely, and you should eat it while hot. When it turns cold, the taste become too heavy and not that delicious. Is it good? Well, one of us like it a lot, like.. a lot and one other is not quite into this food because she doesn't suit the taste.
Overall of them, Mujigae is recommended for you guys who is looking for some Korean food. It doesn't have too much variation in their menus but Mujigae are always developing their menus -- one of us have a few times visits and some menu change. Worth to try!
Mujigae is a super modern restaurant with Korean food as its main concept. From outside the restaurant, you will see a full glass looking room with a big screen in front of it as tall as human. It is displaying a woman in hanbok, Korean traditional cloth, smiling and waving to us, who pass by.
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| Yum! |
When we walk in, we see a giant screen above us, playing K-pop music clip. In a few spot we also see TV screen playing Korean food channel, which is leveling our appetite up, hypnotizing our eyes, and making us drooling unwittingly.
Sorry, author, no offense but it's not enough to be said as SUPER modern restaurant.
Hold on, here's the part we talk about it. When we sit on our couch, we see a jar of cutlery: spoons and chopsticks, tissues container, and a tab. Yes, a tablet computer. You don't need to wave to call the waiter making your orders or having your bills. All simply done by tapping your finger. We see menus, make orders, reorders, call a waiter, and having bills on our table's tab. We also can take photos with some Korean theme templates provided and display it on the giant screen that we mentioned. And for you, all K-pop lovers, we bet you gonna love this place. You can request a video clip here and watch your fave idols on giant screen. Just tap it!
Okay, back to our states. As we are drooling while watching the Korean food channel, our foodies are coming too! So, let's eat!!
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| Nutritious meal to keep you healthy. |
First meal is called Budaejigae. It is said that Budaejigae is a favorite meal for South Korean army for its flavor, nutrition, and easy to make. The dish comes in raw conditions on a little wok and a single stove, accompanied by kimchi, Korean fermented vegetables, and Korean hot sauce. Inside the wok we find the ingredients neatly arranged: noodle at bottom and on top we find egg, dices of meat, tofu, enoki mushrooms, Chinese cabbage, and pieces of leek.
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| The hidden noodle. |
To cook it, we pour the sauce first. Don't forget to carefully shake it first to mix the sauce well. Then we light the stove. Honestly, we didn't get much attention how to cook it first, so we just leave it by until it's cooked by itself. After a while, we take our chopsticks and we try to mix it and we find brown-blackish thing. Well, your thought is right, our Budaejigae is burned. Well, just a bit. We still can eat it and we really like the taste. So, in our tongues and noses, the mixture of burnt smell and the rest of it make a new layer of flavor texture and we love it! The spiciness of Korean spice are really stand out. The noodle is soft, as well as the tofu and the meat. All of the ingredients make a balance harmony. One of us think that she can eat it all day, if she can stand spicy things though. So, we really really really recommend this dish when you are going out here someday. Just watch the food when cooking.
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| We LOVE the taste! |
Bulgogi Package I is our second dish. It contains white rice in metal bowl, red Korean fried chicken, japchae, the famous beef bulgogi, and a little plate of kimchi. We tell you what. If this is your first experience to taste Korean food, maybe buying a package is a good thing to do. You can taste many dishes in one meal price.
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| One stop Korean food package. |
Although it has red fire color on it, Korean fried chicken is not spicy. We can taste the pepper hard, but it's nothing compares to the real spicy food. It's pieces of chicken breasts wrapped in crispy flour and marinated with some red sticky spices sauce. Wet outside, juicy inside, and crispy in the middle of it. Rich of texture, the chicken is cooked just right and tender and it has sweet salty taste. One of our favorite too!
Next in the package is called Japchae. It is a noodle dish mixed with vegetables, mushroom, and sprinkles of sesame seeds. The unique part of Japchae is the noodle. Not like ordinary noodles that you'll find in noodle house and made from flour, Japchae noodle is made from some kind of tubers, like potato or yam. We know it as "soun" in Indonesian and we believe it's known as glass noodle in English, but feel free to correct us. Okay, let's go back to our idle Japchae.
The "soun" together along with vegetables and its friends are mixed and sauteed by a slight of soy sauce. A glossy and transparent look Japchae has chewy, smooth and slippery texture that feels like you can drink it. It taste salty in light level and we can taste the sweetness tingling our tongue. Besides its unique texture, we hardly can say it has anything stand out from the dish. But it's still nice to take a trial taste.
Now, the star of this package, the famous Korean beef bulgogi. Similar to teriyaki, beef bulgogi has savory, salty, and a slight of sweet flavor taste inside. At Mujigae it comes with so much sauce and looks like the meat soaks in bulgogi sauce hotspring. What we love about this bulgogi is the slices form of beef. Thin, a bit crumbling into pieces so the flavor really absorb into it, yet big enough to be clamped. Too bad it's not cooked properly so we find few of them are overcooked and make the meat become hard to eat. Still, we love it as main course this noon.
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| Topokki and friends ready to fill our tummies. |
Classic Topokki is our last dish in Mujigae. This sticky chewy thing is processed glutinous rice that marinated and soaked in hot spicy sauce together with fried crispy tofu and something crispy, like fried dumpling skin.
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| What a lovely colors! |
In first bite we can taste many spices here. Hot, definitely, and you should eat it while hot. When it turns cold, the taste become too heavy and not that delicious. Is it good? Well, one of us like it a lot, like.. a lot and one other is not quite into this food because she doesn't suit the taste.
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| Thanks for filling in our tummies! |
Overall of them, Mujigae is recommended for you guys who is looking for some Korean food. It doesn't have too much variation in their menus but Mujigae are always developing their menus -- one of us have a few times visits and some menu change. Worth to try!
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