Hyang To Gol Korean Restaurant @ Amara Hotel

Joined my bf for a dinner gathering recently. Forced him to take me along when I heard he was going for korean bbq! I have been craving for bbqed pork belly recently and was so looking forward for this dinner.

Amara Hotel has a nice interior design. I especially love its glass elevator. The korean restaurent is located at the 2nd level of the hotel.

The restaurent was pretty crowded. We were welcomed with the delicious aroma of bbqed meat when once we entered the restaurent We were guided by the waitress to a nice private room with a LCD tv. Classy!

We had a lot of dishes that night..




An appetiser that we had while waiting for the rest to arrive. I like it! Some others din like it. It's look like sushi but it taste abit different. The rice felt more like glutinous rice and it's filling are like picked veggie, kimchi and some other ingrendients that i cant figure out.


We were served this sourish water to drink. It is suppose to be appetising. The guys din like it. We gals find it quite refreshing.

the numerous side dishes....


We had two kinds of kimchi.. one is sweet and one is salty. this is the salty one. nice but too salty!!


The other kimchi...


looks like ice cream.. taste abit like ice cream.. yummy potato salad.... we cant stop eating it!


fruit & veggie salad.. quite nice too..


2 of the side dishes i din take. pickled chilli and the other is some radish thing which i find taste really sour and wierd. But there was some1 else who really enjoyed it. haha!


Sauces for our bbq meat...


Beef... the first batch we had taste so-so ... the second batch tasted better. But it was quite exp.. so we expected it to be damn good..


the long awaited sin....


bbqed pork belly...into my mouth.... my stomach..... and also my artery!! oh my!


spicy kimchi fish roe soup.... soup was sweet but nothing fantastic. i preferred the one i had in Melbourne previously..


ox tongue... abit too chewy.... disappointment...


second batch of pork belly.... Hee!


thinly sliced marbled beef... this was good! better than the other type of beef!!


enter into my mouth.... Mmm...


Korean pancake... is something i can never appreciate.... not bad i guess but jus dunno how to appreciate..


Bbqed mushroom is the best.... and look! o so pretty!!


seafood hotpot!! this was good!! the seafood was plentiful! the soup was super sweet from the seafood. Will enjoy it more if i werent so full by that time!

Overall, i think the standard is abit above average. However, there isnt anything there that will make me wanna go back there again. A good one-time experience however.

but i must say.. the service there was really good. We had a waitress stationed in our room. She bbqed our meat and serve us evenly. She served us tea dilligently and also portioned our food for us whenever there's a need to. I am glad i am not korean. The amount of dishes they used to serve the few of us was numerous.. imagine having to wash so many dishes!!!