CHUNG GI WA

Hello guys! Sorry that we didn’t post anything for a couple of weeks. It’s been a hectic month. My sister, Jessyca, has been busy with her work, and I was busy studying for my exam. Well, at least now we’re back! Okay, around October, we went to Chung Gi Wa, a Korean BBQ restaurant located in Semarang. We came here for a few times, but only got the chance to write the review several weeks ago. Chung Gi Wa is not only located in Semarang, but they also have restaurant branches in Jakarta, Bandung, and Surabaya. For your information, they provide organic vegetables, fresh from their own farm in Sukabumi. About the exterior, their restaurant facade gave us that traditional Korean restaurant vibe.

The interior was pretty good. The color palette that they use gave us warm ambiance, and we can actually stay there for hours without being uncomfortable. Each table has a Korean BBQ exhaust and a stove top grill pan so that the grilling process can be done at customer’s table. We really love it when that beautiful smell of grilled meat starts to coming out from that grill pan! Jjang!

It’s no secret that every time we go to any Korean BBQ restaurant, they will serve us with various kind of side dishes and it’s refillable. Koreans call it banchan. As for us the kimchi here was perfectly sour and spicy.

They also served refillable ice tea for free! Oh, and the lettuces were also refillable. Thumbs up!

Yangnyeom Gui 87K

Yangnyeom gui is a grilled pork dish marinated in Chung Gi Wa special sauce. It was marinated well and also richly seasoned. The sweet and savory flavor from the sauce blended nicely. The texture of this yangnyeom gui was tender. It actually depends on how the pork was grilled. The waitresses usually offer whether we want it to be grilled by them or our self. Since we’re not good at grilling, we always ask them to grill it. Once we ordered the same dish but the texture was really stringy. Maybe because the waitress at that time was a trainee. But most of the time we came to this restaurant the texture of the meat turned out good. Overall we love yangnyeom gui and will come back just to eat this.

Samgyeopsal 87K

Samgyeopsal has always been one of our favourite dish in Chung Gi Wa. It’s a thin sliced grilled pork belly. Again, the tenderness of the meat depends on how you grill it. And this time it turned out to be so tender, juicy and savory. Overall this dish never failed to feed my palate.

As we all know (probably ‘we’ refers to people who enjoy Korean drama, show, and etc.) Koreans usually enjoy eating the freshly grilled meat by wrapping them with the huge leaves and various topping, for example sauce, chili, garlic, salt, etc. I tried to make my own wrap with the huge lettuce, two slices of samgyeopsal and a piece of kimchi. You know what?  It turned out so delicious! You can taste sour, spicy, savory and the freshness of the lettuce altogether at once. You definitely have to try making your own Korean wrap with this dish!

Kimchi Jjigae 65K

Definitely one of the most ordered stew for us. Kimchi Jjigae is a spicy kimchi stew with pork, tofu, onion, red and green pepper. This dish came with a bowl of rice. It’s sour, savory, spicy and just perfectly seasoned. It’s such a heartwarming and addicting stew.

Galbitang 72K

Galbitang is a short rib soup with glass noodle and egg. We like how fresh and warm it was. The short rib was very delicious and tender. Even though I’m not a fan of glass noodle, but it was also good. The portion was generous (actually, it’s a big portion). Eat with rice, it was a perfect healthy bowl of soup. We defo will eat this again!

As for the dessert, they served slices of fresh watermelon for free. Seriously? Who doesn’t want free fruits?! So do we! Although it’s a free dessert, they gave us good quality watermelon. It’s sweet and fresh. This watermelon was just perfect as a dessert. After eating those fatty meals,  its freshness balance everything.

That’s all guys, our review about Korean BBQ Restaurant Chung Gi Wa. This restaurant is definitely the place you should consider if you’re a fan of Korean food especially the grilled meat ones. You can also visit other Chung Gi Wa closest branch in your neighborhood. We hope you all enjoy reading our post and love to come back. Thanks for visiting our blog. Stay tuned and see you on the next post!

DON’T EAT FOOD. TASTE IT.

J&B

Opening hours : Everyday 10.00 - 21.30

Average price for two : 300K

Dresscode : Casual

Location : Jl. Sultan Agung No. 69, Gajah Mungkur, Gajahmungkur, Kota Semarang, Jawa Tengah 50232

Phone : (024) 8315028