August 2015. There are a few Korean restaurant serving authentic Korean meals with good variety of banchan in Solaris Mont Kiara. Ola! Korean Barbeque Garden is one of it and also the best among all we've dine-in so far. Ola is famous with it's Korean Barbeque however we personally prefer their noodles and stews menu than BBQ. Here are compilations of our dine-ins (some but not all) at Ola since our first visit in 2013 when we first moved to Mont Kiara.
Our first visit~ we had 물냉면 Mul-naengmyeon and 콩국수 Kongguksu. Mul-naengmyeon is cold buckwheat noodle and Kongguksu is a chilled soy milk noodle soup, a popular cold noodle dish during hot summer day when you have no appetite for heavy meal or hot meal. We received a plate of grilled marinated sliced beef as complimentary side-dish and it goes so well with the cold soup.
Not second but probaly third visit, he had 설렁탕 Seolleongtang - ox bone soup with tangmyeon and I had Yukgaejang - a red but mild spicy beef soup that made from shredded beef, gosari, scallions and other veggies. Both served with rice with no additional charge and they serve really nice banchan with menu change according to season.
Another time when we came to have late dinner after work, we order Gamja-tang -- a pork backbone stew cook by using spine or neck bones of a pig, with potatoes, napa cabbage, beansprouts, perilla seeds, green onions and topped with shredded perilla leaves and crown daisy. Unlike those individual serving soup and stew, Gamja-tang is serve in large pot, and can be serve more than 2 pax.
This is a weekend when I don't cook, we came to have simple lunch with Bibimbap and Bibim-naengmyeon. Ola has menu called Yuksam Naengmyeon where the Naengmyeon (choice of soup or bibim) is served with charcoal grilled meat which is a popular menu created somewhere in 2006 by a Naengmyeon specialty restaurant in Korea. With an additional cost of RM10, we can enjoy the naengmyeon with meat which quite reasonable charge.
We also had Tteokbokki, and Pajeon + Makgeolli on one of the rainy day when we craving for it. Generally many kinds of Korean cuisines that we are looking for can be found here. Friendly owners who are a Korean couple run the place and often give customers complimentary dish as appreciation. It's a gem not to be missed if you are looking for authentic Korean cuisines.
Do you visit it in 2016? The food quality still maintain?
ReplyDeleteIs there other restaurant in solaris also serve nice authentic korean food?
ReplyDeleteHi Wai Kit, yes occasionally we still pay a visit, food quality still the same. Apart from Ola! You can try Little Korea or Apgujeong. These two restaurant serve authentic taste too.
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