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New Seoul Korean Restaurant is no stranger in Bintulu, it was open back in the 90's when Bintulu had an influx of Korean worker for the MLNG oil and gas project. However they close down and moved over to Miri which I heard was pretty successful there.
As of Late Bintulu is swarm with Korean again due to the ever blooming Samalaju projects and the recent success with the Kidurong Korean House Restaurant proves that even local demographic loves Korean food, New Seoul Korean Restaurant is back again but is it any good?
Located at the old Teapot restaurant or the area of 900Inn, they serve raw meats of pork,chicken and beef for barbeque which they have this hot plate on each table and also Korean food *duh. To be honest I was pretty shocked with the interior design (if there is any) of the restaurant considering this kind of price point, imagine tables in an empty room with no proper roof where you see all the wiring's and pipes. Sorta like dining in a warehouse if you dig that kind of enviroment. Due to the grilling within a closed restaurant the whole place is filled with smoke with no proper ventilation which I did not enjoy at all.
Service was at best described as everyone looked very busy but not really. There is a large selection of foods to choose from the menu and I like how all the food is accompanied with a picture because one of the things I found dining in foreign cuisine is the lack of any information of the food which makes ordering really difficult. We ordered garlic fried rice, kimchi fried rice, kimchi soup or they call Kam Ja if I am not mistaken on the menu, Kimchi pancake and seafood rice cake. I did not bother with the grilling because personally I don't like grilling that much.
Food took pretty long to come out however the person in charge was kind enough to asked "is every order out already?" twice but the rice cake never came out until we were about to leave. Pardon as I didn't take any pictures as I wasn't in a good mood with all the waiting in a smoke filled room.
The garlic fried rice taste great with bits of garlic in it and has this buttery aroma smell, you can basically just eat it off by itself. The Kimchi fried rice came with a fried egg on top and taste just like kimchi as the name suggested. I am not familiar with Korean food but I had kim chi soup before and it was pretty spicy but the kim chi soup we had was boiled with pork and potatoes which taste like bland potato soup. Kimchi pancake is what you would expect egg fried pieces of pancake with Kimchi saurce which I personally like. The seafood rice cake came out when we decided to leave so we asked them to pack it up. It was basically korean rice cake as they call it made of glutoneous rice cook with kimchi, prawn and fish fillet. Portion of all these food mentioned are for two to three person.
Overall personally might come back again but not in the near future due to poor service and the smoke filled room, I waited almost fifteen minutes just for the bill which end up having to personally go to the counter to see that the lady hasn't even started to do my bill yet. There is a variety of food catering for the Korean but price wise I would say it is not for the usual folks as average each dish cost RM30 and way up.
Garlic Fried Rice -RM10
Kimchi Fried Rice - RM10
Kimchi Soup - RM35
Seafood Rice Cake - RM35
Kimchi pancake - RM35
Orange Juice - RM8
Softdrink -RM3
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