Review: BCD Tofu @ Lynnwood, WA

Store: BCD Tofu House
Location: 3301 184th St SW, St 210, Lynnwood WA

Months ago, we drove by H Mart Lynnwood, but we didn't have time to check it out and I begged Daniel to go there last weekend.  I will write a grocery review for that later.  In the meantime, I want to share with you my experience with BCD Tofu House, which is outside of H Mart.

BCD Tofu House is a food court vendor but their service is on par with a restaurant.  After you order, they will give you a tag and they will locate you once the food is ready.  In my past experience, food court Korean food will not give you side dishes but BCD did!  That was surprising and plus, they have this fish (in full) for side dish.  I am very picky on seafood and the fish has too much bone, not my cup of tea, but still, Daniel was happy with his fish and finished it all.

Their menu is a bit confusing, I am not sure what BCD combination menu really is.  But after we ordered, I think combination menu means you get 2 main dishes.  We had:

1. Beef Bulgogi Premium Tofu Combination ($14.99)
They served us one big plate of beef bulgogi, a small tofu soup and purple rice.  Inside the tofu soup, there's beef and seafood (one shrimp and one clam) Their portions were huge.  The beef was a huge portion and marinated well.  However, I wish it's a bit more moist.  Their rice was also cooked within the stone bowl, nice!

Beef Bulgogi

2. Dumpling Premium Tofu ($9.95)
The tofu is very similar to the small tofu soup served with the beef bulgogi but bigger portion.  Of course, this dish had dumplings, 4 of them in total.  I loved the shape of the dumplings, pretty cute.

Dumpling Premium Tofu

Bonus, they served complimentary barley tea, if anyone likes them :)

Food: 4.5/5 (consider this is food court quality, this is pretty good)
Price: $$ (consider this is food court quality, this is pretty expensive, same price as sit down restaurant)
Service: 5/5
Recommend to friends? Yes

Review: Stone Korean Restaurant @ Redmond, WA

Store: Stone Korean Restaurant
Address: 16857 Redmond Way, Redmond, WA

If you don't already notice, Daniel and I normally crave for Asian food because we miss the selections we get in Toronto!!!

We had some decent Korean food at Stone Korean Restaurant.  Notice, this isn't Stone House, which is a restaurant that's rated pretty high in Yelp.  We may want to try that one day too.  Stone Korean Restaurant was ran by Korean, the food is authentic.  According to Yelp, their price is on the pricer side.  I really can't comment as this is our second time dining at a Korean restaurant in Redmond and their price wasn't online so I took a picture of each page of the menu and will compare later.

Here are the dishes we ordered:

1. Beef Tofu Soup ($10)

As usual, we ordered spicy... ok.. maybe not next time.. as Daniel couldn't handle the spiciness of this dish... this was probably the max. he can handle.. oops... I have to say their soup was pretty good though, it's spicy and thick.  It's not watery as some of the other Korean restaurant served.   There weren't a lot of beef but I think that's pretty normal for this dish.  One worthy mention is the rice!!! I believe they cooked the rice in that stone bowl they served.  There weren't a lot of rice, and when it's done, you saw the dried rice at the bottom and it's hard to take out.  I can't wait to try their bibimbob, I think that will be good as the rice on the side will be crispy... I remember I had a similar experience in Japan and couldn't find it anywhere else, maybe I can find that in Redmond?

Beef tofu soup

2. 1/2 Fried and 1/2 Marinated Chicken (12 pieces) ($22)

We really want to try fried chicken because people in New York City were craving for these. At the time, Daniel and I were tourist in New York's Korean town and someone came to us and asked where's the best Korean fried chicken.  We were liked... what's Korean fried chicken.  Since then, we were curious about Korean fried chicken.  When we saw fried chicken on the Stone Korean Restaurant menu, we didn't hesitate to order.  They have 2 options a) wings b) whole chicken.  They don't offer marinated wings, so we decided to go with half half on the whole chicken.  The fried chicken were similar to KFC, maybe less greasy and definitely crispy, similar to Popeyes. The marinated chicken was sweet, like honey with green onion.  We liked the dishes but that's a lot of chicken for both of us.  It's better if we were having this with a group!

Korean fried & marinated chicken

Price: $$
Food: 4.5/5
Environment: 4/5
Recommend to friends: Yes

Tips: 
The restaurant was clean; however, the floor was slippery.  I was wearing hunter boots and still, I slipped.  I believe I wasn't the only one, while we were eating, we saw at least one more person who slipped.  So be careful when you walk into the restaurant!!!