Sue Korean Restaurant

Kimberly Street in TST is known to many locals as simply ‘Korean Street’ due to the vast number of Korean supermarkets and restaurants there. My friends and I were nearby today and decided to find a place for lunch there. We were actually all late and meeting up at 1:30pm ended up to be meeting up at 2pm, so we were all pretty hungry by then. We didn’t do much poking around — we went to the first restaurant we saw, Sue Korean Restaurant. From the menu outside, the variety of food seemed good and prices were affordable, so we didn’t even hesitate.
The restaurant is quite small and from the looks of it, can’t sit more than thirty people. There isn’t much décor to speak of and the restaurant actually looked a little old. There were tons of lunch sets to choose from, and I settled on the pork bibimbap. One of my friends got the rice with marinated chicken, and my other friend (who coincidentally is Korean) ordered the Korean vermicelli in seafood soup.
The food didn’t take long to come. My bibimbap arrived first in all its sizzling glory — it smelled really good and I wanted to dig in, but it was just so hot! The pork was surprisingly tender, but I actually found the rice a little bland tasting. My friend who ordered the marinated chicken rice said it was pretty good, but that there was way too much rice. My Korean friend said that her vermicelli tasted ‘too Chinese’ and wasn’t very authentic. In contrast, she tried a little bit of my bibimbap and said that this was pretty much the real deal. Our lunches also came with this potato radish soup served in a bowl that looked identical to a miso soup bowl. The soup was quite nice and wasn’t too salty.
I would say that a meal here is pretty worth it. None of us were able to finish our food — the portions were just way too big! I only made it three quarters through before giving up. My bibimbap costed only $ 50, and there was no service charge! I was quite impressed with Sue Korean, but the next time I am back at Kimberly Street, I’ll probably want to try out other Korean restaurants instead of returning to this one.