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Bonga Korean Restaurant

MY REVIEW: Strong points: The food was outstanding and my wife and found the service great.They have a push button system at each table to call call the watress and it worked well.Some of the tables have grills. The wait staff was very helpful but their English needed help. Prices were good

NAME: chubby
SUBMITTED: 6/13/2010   LAST VISIT WAS: 6/10
FREQUENCY: Visited once

MY REVIEW: Food is above average and it has a variety of side dishes. However, it was by far the worst dining experience i have ever experienced. I visited this place several time before with a friend and enjoyed it. The food was good but service is beyond bad. I am a foodie, and I care more about the food then service.

Couple of weeks ago, I took several friends there and I was flat out ANGRY about the service. Korean food is pretty spicy, and i had to wait 15 mins to get some water. On top of that, the waitress was slow at everything from giving up the menu to fulfill very basic requests. I was so angry with the waitress I only tipped her 10% of the bill. To my surprised and much SHOCK, she chased after me and asked for my tips !!!

... after reading the review below and talking with other friends, I realized that they do that on a regular basis. and one friend even said that on waitress even grabbed his arm. I would never go back there again, and I would warn everyone about going there.

NAME: charles knighton
SUBMITTED: 12/31/2009   LAST VISIT WAS: october/2009
FREQUENCY: Visited 2-3 times

MY REVIEW: This is one of our favorite Korean restaurant in town. The BBQ and some of the side dishes are excellent. The tofu soup isn't as good as other places. I totally agree the owner is overbearing and we ended up visiting other Korean restaurants several time just to avoid him. He likes to stand next to our table and tell us how to eat certain dishes. One time, my friend who hates ginger was picking ginger out of her share of the dish and he actually told my friend in his limied English that she has to eat the dish with the ginger...

NAME: ButaS5
SUBMITTED: 3/22/2009   LAST VISIT WAS: 11/08
FREQUENCY: Everybody here knows my name...

MY REVIEW: This Korean Restaurant is ok, just slightly above average.

strong points: clean restaurant, you get to cook over a charcoal grill (tables on the right side of the restaurant), black bean rice

The side dishes are ok, not the best though. My friend and I plan to never visit this restaurant again because of the owner or whoever demanding that we tip more for the bad service we had. I didn't know it was by law to tip well.

NAME: lichee
SUBMITTED: 9/2/2008   LAST VISIT WAS: 08/2008
FREQUENCY: Visited 2-3 times

MY REVIEW: Very clean restaraunt, with great food. I go there with my wife regularly - the best Korean restaraunt in Houston. Try one of their soups. Delicious!!!

NAME: CSJL
SUBMITTED: 1/23/2008   LAST VISIT WAS: January 2008
FREQUENCY: Everybody here knows my name...

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