BBQ Galbi, Waterloo

BBQ Galbi is a Korean BBQ restaurant in Waterloo. It is located on the Crown Square Plaza side in Waterloo near the Toyota dealer. This is one of 3 Korean restaurants in the block.

Setting

Like most typical Korean BBQ restaurants, BBQ Galbi is set up with tables for 4 around a table BBQ. The table is special as it has air vents blowing downwards instead of upwards. It also has a pool of water under each grill to prevent excessive smoke.

Food

BBQ - Marinated Waygu Beef Bolgolgi ($18) and Spicy Marinated Pork Belly ($19)

Unlike most restaurants, the BBQ meat did not have rice included. Both meat were in general were quite dry particularly the pork belly. The marinade sauce of the beef was very average. 

The biggest problem with the BBQ was the service. In this restaurant, the wait staff would put all the meat on the BBQ plate at one go and not tend to it. It was impossible to eat all the meat up before it started charring up on the plate. I would have much preferred to have cooked the meat myself and ensure each piece was cooked to how I liked it to be, and at a pace which I would enjoy it at.

Dak Gae Jang ($15)- Chicken vegetable soup with noodles, served with a bowl of red rice. The soup was rather tasteless, thankfully they provided some salt with pepper. There was scarcely any vegetables except for the scallions on the top. The chicken was very dry. The noodles were so swollen as it was overcooked. The best part of this dish was the rice.

Ban chan - These are traditional Korean side dishes to accompany the food. The ban chan wasn't my cup of tea either. There were crunch onions with some green chili, salted anchovies, seaweed with sesame seed and kimchi. The kimchi was pretty soggy and stale.

Cass Beer ($6) - This was the best part of the whole meal. What's a BBQ without beer? Cass is a Korean light and creamy. Lovely beer to accompany a BBQ.

Service
The service at this place in terms of cooking the BBQ was rather poor. It literally made the food worse. I would have rather them not place all the meat on the BBQ plate, and not tend to it. It would be better if they either provided an additional plate to place cooked meat, or allow us to cook our own meat at our own pace.

Overall
For the price and quality, I would have rather gone to a much better Korean BBQ in the CBD just 4km away.

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