This place has no sign on the door, it just looks like a house with a buzzer, but I'd been clued in that there was a "Korean Fried Chicken" spot along that block (in fact, that's how Google Maps marks it, although they think it's across the street at 682, a vacant lot - I've tried to change it, but they haven't accepted the change). There is actually a restaurant sign on the house next door at 685, but it was locked up tight. I stood around for a few minutes figuring out my next stop, and luckily, a couple of businessmen came along, rang the bell, and went in, and I saw it was a restaurant. So, gave it a shot. They were quite welcoming, and let me know that at lunch they only offer the various iterations of fried chicken, or the stir fried noodle dishes, the rest of the menu is dinner only. The name, dagi myeoni, means tea ceremony.
I ordered the "Chicken Hot", to which my waitress replied, "But without the spicy sauce, right?" "No, I like spicy." "Okay...." Food arrives, a whopping place of wings separated into joints, in a sweet and sour sauce with no kick. "This isn't spicy, don't you have an actual spicy sauce like it says on the menu?" "Well, we gave you the sweet and sour because spicy isn't for you." "I want spicy." Heads to the kitchen, comes back with sweet and sour sauce with maybe a tablespoon of gojuchang stirred into it. "Here's spicy sauce, but you won't be able to eat it." I ate it all (really good, could still use more kick), they were shocked. "How did you eat that, it's too spicy for you people?" "Not for me. Next time, spicy like Koreans eat it, okay?" She was so sweet about it all though that I handed her a decent tip and got an "Okay!" with a big grin. Oh, and they'd given me salad and sweet pickled daikon for my ban chan, while the tables around me got kimchi and other spicy dishes for theirs. read more