Ni Hao

I was just walking around this area, and saw this Korean-​Chinese restaurant. If you don’t already know, Koreans have adapted some Northern Chinese cuisine as their own. I love Jajangmuyn, or noodles with black bean sauce. So I was so excited to randomly find this place.
So I ordered the spicy pork version, as I haven’t had it that style before, but it didn’t taste spicy to me at all. They have signs that limit your table to just 1 order of pickles, and that’s kind of a bummer, as I like to eat a lot with my meal. I feel like the vinegar taste helps cut into the oiliness of the meal. The portion was a good size though. I couldn’t finish my meal. I did ask for a take away (take out) container, but as some other places do you’ll have to pay extra. In hindsight, I should have just left my leftovers.
Service, is mostly self serve. Go up to the register to pay and take a number. They will drop off your meal to your table. Water is self served as well.
Overall, as I don’t live in Australia I probably won’t be back here, and that doesn’t bother me the slightest.

This restaurant confuses me a little. Named «You Good» (or hello, if you’re not being sarcastic like I am) in mandarin, it serves a variety of mostly Korean, but partly Korean-​Chinese meals.
What is Korean-​Chinese you ask? Well, it appears to be what you might eat if you went to a Chinese restaurant in Korea. Much the same way that Chinese restaurants in China don’t serve the sweet and sour pork and beef black bean with dimsims that we’re familiar with in Australia, they also don’t serve the food sold here. However, from my experience in China, the locals liked to serve «exotic» or «foreign» foods from other countries, with a Chinese twist — and I suspect this restaurant is the Korean version of that idea.
The food is reasonably fresh and inexpensive. You can get meals for two plus drinks off the lunch menu for around $ 25.00. Water is available at no cost from a dispenser in store, but there is no water for sale. The lunch menu is largely the Korean/​chinese hybrid food discussed above, but its definitely edible. After three visits, I identified the spicy crispy chicken as the best option — with the spicy pork a close second. I tried the mapo tofu (that’s «mapou doufu» or grandmother’s tofu to you mandarin speakers) and was a bit disappointed. It seemed a little heavy on the chinese five spice, and the silken tofu was undercooked.
It’s always busy but the service is pretty good. I’ll probably be back, but I’ll look for a good mapou doufu elsewhere.

Stopped by Ni Hao’s for lunch. Great service and the staff spoke okay english. Food was great though. The black bean noodles were my favorite. A good selection of foods. BUT no water to drink… only tea which was okay and it was self served. I recommend!

M3 is very nice! 17 AUD. They quite clean, free flow tea, nice chicken! Just need more consistent in producing good quality taste.

My friend and I were on the hunt for a quick and easy lunch when we stumbled upon this place at the Charlotte Street end of the Elizabeth Arcade. Seeing as my buddy was a Korean virgin I thought this would be a good opportunity to pop his cherry. We were greeted with a warm smile and promptly given menus, ordering and paying is done at the counter.
I ordered the Black Soybean Noodles which were some of the best I’ve had in Brisbane and my friend ordered the lunch special and he enjoyed it.
Overall an extremely relaxed atmosphere, a really chill little café and I’ll definitely be back. Also it’s probably ideal to come here some time just after 11 as service will be quicker.
Ps. Don’t let the bright red plastic plates and bowls put you off, they’re rad.