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Food Review: Chocolate Kkomz…

Wanna try a nice, Korean restaurant in Eastwood? Good for a quiet dinner for two or more. Well, here is a review for you. Last Saturday, Keith and I tried a Korean restaurant recommended by Grace and Chris. Funnily enough, it was on the Chinese side of the station, so Keith and I, wrongly driving to the ‘Korean’ side had to go back across the bridge to the more ‘familiar’ side :p.

The place is called Chocolate Kkomz. Once you step in, you immediately notice the nice interior – modern browns and blacks, some nice decor and comfortably furnished booths. It’s only 6 o’clock so there aren’t many people yet. We get seated at a large booth and there are some pictures of some delicious dishes stuck onto the table for us to look at. Some nice jazz music is playing (Keith would beg to differ) in the background and we get our menus.

There was somewhat a variety of things to choose from – some seafood, rice and stews in particular. We decided to go for a stew for 2 people and these were reasonably priced in the $30+ range. At the press of a buzzer, a waitress comes promptly to take our order.

The atmosphere was modern, relaxed, and was quite different to what I would expected from the noisy, Asian Eastwood area. We were able to have good conversations without hearing too much of the conversation behind us (Chinese-Malaysian family la) and the people in front (Hongkies). It didn’t get too noisy even though a lot more people came. The music changed from jazz to Il Divo after awhile which was kinda nice.

As usual, we had the (I guess) ‘appetisers’ which were the kim chee, the potato thing, the (I think) pickle thing and some other vegie. These were replenished after we finished them quickly. The bulgolgi and octopus stew came. There were also mushrooms and other vegies included in the stew. You could also add udon into the stew after it boiled.

For dessert, we had this fruit/redbean/ice thing. It was served in this large glass with a scoop of ice cream and sprinkles on the top, followed by a layer of red bean, then lots of flavoured ice surrounded by 8 slices each of watermelon, rockmelon, kiwifruit and banana. Then, just when you thought it was over, the lowest layer consisted of flavoured ice mixed with fruit salad. Wah… it was so cold but quite nice.

Overall, how would I rate it?

Price: 7/10 (if you don’t have the icy dessert thing – that cost quite a bit!)

Food: 8/10 (the soup in the stew was pretty ‘ching’, not much oil at all :))

Atmosphere: 9/10 (I liked the music and the decor)

Service: 7/10 (Pretty alright, except had to wait quite awhile for the stew. Doesn’t matter too much if you got good company. The gas ran out on the stew but it got promply replaced).

As you can see, I’m pretty easily pleased. Perhaps you should ask Keith for his opinion!