Yuupduk is my go to place to get tteokbokki (rice cakes in spicy sauce). I believe they are a chain from S. Korea, and they are known for their very spicy tteokbokki. The texture of the rice cakes are nice and chewy - more so than other restaurants. I used to get their namesake tteokbokki which can be made to be extra spicy. And when I say spicy, I mean really, really spicy. These days, I've been getting the rosé tteokbokki, which is much less spicy because of the addition of the cream. Unfortunately, they can't seem to make it very spicy (which was the original reason why I craved tteokbokki from here specifically), but the rosé tteokbokki is addictive in its own way. I always add an extra order of the sausage; they have a good snap and the flavor complements the tteokbokki very well. I've had the other dishes here before - the udon, mini kimbap, tuna rice balls, tempura, donkatsu, etc. Everything is pretty well done. The only dish that I do not like from here is the soondae, which is unfortunate because tteokbokki and soondae is such a classic Korean bunsik combo. But alas, I would not recommend getting that dish here. The flavor and the texture of the dish is not up to par with their other menu items. read more

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I love Yupdduk's tteokbokki so I came again to introduce my friend to their food (I come to Yupdduk often whenever I'm having a craving for tteokbokki haha). Please refer to my previous review for more thoughts. We came right at opening at 11:30 am on a Saturday and shared a large rose tteokbokki that was delicious as always. The rice cakes are tender and chewy & the sauce is as addictive as usual with its balance of savory umami, sweetness, and spice. I haven't had the large size tteokbokki in awhile as I usually come alone & get the small size but the large size is a great option for when you eat with someone else. My friend really liked the tteokbokki as well, I'm glad to convert another person to be a Yupdduk fan ;) We also ordered the kimari/gimmari/deep fried seaweed rolls filled with glass noodles. It's my first time having this dish and this was also very tasty. The glass noodles inside are well seasoned and savory & the deep fried seaweed is nice and crispy. It's a great appetizer to pair with tteokbokki! The music they play is always nice and chill & usually the restaurant isn't very crowded. There's wifi as well! It's a very casual place and great place to grab food with friends. I once again, highly recommend Yupdduk! read more

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I really enjoyed my meal here! The food is the kind of stuff you find at street vendors in Korea- rteokbokki, kimbap, fishcake, etc. They have two menus- one with different types of tteokbokki, and one with an assortment of different foods such as budae jjigae and oden tang. I love that they have small sizes of food thats usually a huge portion, like budae jjigae- those big pots sometimes feeds 3-4 people! They were able to serve our large party quickly and the staff were very nice I got the rose tteokbokki and I loved the flavor. I will say the mild is still pretty spicy! I'm definitely coming back for more. read more

Yupdduk Flushing - Kimchi fried rice with cheese - Korean Near Me - Flushing, New York

Ordered via door dash. Dish was yummy not that spicy but the portion was really small. I love their assorted dukbokki. read more

Yupdduk Flushing - Korean Near Me - Flushing, New York

This place is more of a 3.5 but rounded down for a couple of reasons. I came here excited since cheese covered and fried foods, much like a lot of things in life, are bad for you but delicious and exciting. Ordered the combo dinner set which came with the kimchi fried rice and cheese, the mixed rice cake and a katsu, more than enough food for two people honestly. The cheese kimchee fried rice came out first and was immediately disappointed with how lukewarm the dish was and how underwhelming it was because of that. I wanted to mix my cheese with the other ingredients there but couldn't since the cheese would just clump together and go nowhere, the dish overall was average at best. The cheese mixed rice cakes were another item that was just average at best, nothing really popped out at me, nothing really struck me as excellent, again just another dish that was not really noteworthy. The best thing here, surprisingly was the katsu. It was prepared extremely well, the meat was tender and the coating was super crispy, it's probably one of the best katsus I've tasted anywhere. Overall an average restaurant with above average prices, the only thing id come back for is the katsu and all items katsus related read more

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The hamburger cheese katsu and the pork cutlet are most worth it. The other stuff is good too, like the spicy pork over rice and the curry pasta. Spice level can be high even for mild. Portions are good. Love the tons of cheese and sauce in the topokki. Nice eggs on the kimchi bacon fried rice. read more

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Where do I start. I ordered for pick-up, which included tuna mayo over rice, curry over rice (lunch special), spam mayo over rice, and the signature dish Tteokbokki extra spicy. It did not come with the cheese on top, which is a standard to Yupik, which was disappointing. The portion size seemed fine for the cost of the food. The taste, however, is something to be angry about. The tteokbokki tastes absolutely bland, too fishy, and not spicy at all. How does rice cake have a fishy taste! The tuna mayo over rice had 0 flavor. The curry had 0 flavor. The spam over rice had 0 flavor. The total cost for the entire meal was not justified as I could not finish my meal. ABSOLUTELY GARBAGE AND WASTE OF MONEY. Compared to the LA YuppDuk, this is a disgrace. This place needs to close ASAP. read more

The food here is pretty spicy even when it's mildly spiced. We got take-out for 3 items and service was quick and friendly. The ambiance is clean and dim. This place offers a lot of Korean food options! read more

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Still a top tier spot! Had the mini rice balls and the mini kimbab again, because they're delicious! For my main dish I went with Yupgi Ramen and added two eggs along with assorted oden(fishcakes). Decided to go spicy with the ramen - was told the options are either Mild or Spicy. Ramen was super flavorful on its own, but the fishcakes added an awesome texture along with some more awesome flavor. The same young lady attended me today and she was just as attentive and nice as last time. This place has yet to let me down. Everything i've had is delicious. I always end up going on a random day of the week around lunch time and it is never busy. I really hope this isn't the case at all times because you are ALL missing out if that's the case. read more

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We came here for a Friday lunch with just the husband. They were opening up but the servers were very kind in making us welcome. We ordered the Bulgogi, Tteokbokki and Fried Rolls. Everything came in good time and was delicious. I appreciated that they were kind enough to gauge my spice level and not make it too spicy. Definitely a great place for a quick bite! Well priced as well. read more

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Ordered the rosé mild dukbokki, the assorted spicy dukbokki, kimbap, fried seaweed rolls, donkatsu, and odeng soup. Honestly their rice cakes made my day. It's the best dukbokki I've had in a long time in NYC. This is THE PLACE to go for spicy flavorful not just sweet dukbokki. Yes the rice cakes weren't perfectly cylindrical, but frankly they were just as bouncy chewy. There is a disclaimer saying that the rice cakes might not hold their shape because they come from Korea and need to be thawed. I had no problems with their shape. If anything some of the cracks held MORE of the flavor, and it was awesome. I enjoy eating the spicy fire chicken noodles, and Yupdduk's spicy was just about that level. It was the type that adds. Curious to try their spiciest level next time and give their chicken feet and rice balls a go. The other foods were perfect bunshik-expectations, and were great sides to the rice cakes, which were the highlight for me :) Thank you for the amazing food! There was only 1 server on a Friday night, so service was a bit slower, but that never hindered from the amazing food and experience. Will come back for future rice cake cravings! read more

I have been coming to Yupdduk for years now for their kimchi cheese fried rice!! definitely recommend. I love everything about it-- the cheese, seaweed, chips, all of it!! sadly, everything else on the menu is okay and nothing too special in my opinion. their ramen noodle is like Shin which is tasty but probably not worth purchasing read more

Yupdduk Flushing - Kimchi Bacon Cheese Fried Rice - Korean Near Me - Flushing, New York

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The food is so yummy that we finished them all non-stop regardless of the generous serving sizes. The kimchi bacon fried rice with cheese was absolutely my favorite, it was very flavorful and creamy, with a great texture from the thick layer of cheese. The fried seaweed roll was so crispy and yummy. The topokki was also very delicious, the rice cakes were soft and chewy and there was a lot of cheese and other toppings in the dish. read more

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What the hell is this? Dumplings filled with glass noodles ONLY. I've never seen dumplings like this. You charged me $4 for these?? It's ridiculous. I hope to get refund. read more

Yupdduk Flushing - Fried Dumpling - Korean Near Me - Flushing, New York

this is definitely an amazing lunch place to go to! the restaurant has a bit of an 80s vibe with their booth couch chairs but they did get a little confused with the rest of the decoration as the tables and chairs don't necessarily match the vibe. the server was pretty quick with taking our order though and we didn't run into any trouble there. the food was really amazing! the jumbo rice ball had a really great flavor and it was worth it for sure. the tteokbokki was really spicy and flavorful and the mozzarella on top was a really great compliment to the pork katsu. the pork katsu was nice and juicy and tasted really good with the side dishes. read more

Yupdduk Flushing - assorted yupdduk with cheese pork katsu - Korean Near Me - Flushing, New York

This store is surrounded by so many restaurants and is easily overlooked. This spot seems like a good place for groups with so many food options ranging from noodles to rice to katsu and kimbap. I love that there are different sets that allow you to try multiple types of food. Overall, the food is just OK - nothing outstanding , nothing extraordinary. Not really a place that I crave to come back again. The rice cake dish was actually pretty good though. I'd consider coming back with a larger group, but with all the other options in the area, it's unlikely. read more

The rice cakes in the Topokki are not the shape it should be and it is all broken apart from each other. The texture should be firm and round the way it should be. This is not the first time this happened. Very disappointed. read more

Yupdduk Flushing - Yupgi Topokki with rice cakes that all came apart from each othet - Korean Near Me - Flushing, New York

Yupdduk is located along northern blvd so you can't miss it while walking. The inside is spacious. Serves in big portions so prepare to eat good if you come here. Spicy cheese ribs (5/5): these ribs are great! So much meat and it damn near comes right off the bones. The sauce is great and the bit of spice was a good addition. Then there's cheese, chips and corn. And once you add the cheese to your rib bite, then it's just amazing! Rose tteokbokki (5/5): as great as regular tteokbokki but with a creamier sauce. Very tasty and you can add other ingredients such as noodles or rice balls. Pork cutlet (5/5): can't go wrong with pork cutlet. Theirs is lightly battered but very crispy. Mine came with some tomato based sauce and it was a great compliment to the cutlet. This place is great and worth a visit. I know I'll come back! read more

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Best topokki in the flushing area! If you can handle a little spice, go with the spicy version. It's about as close to a bowl from Korea as you can get. It burns but burns so gooooood. Also the bulgogi hot plate is a nice break from the spice in between each bite. And the fried dumpling work as the perfect crunchy vessel to dunk into the spicy topokki sauce. read more

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The assorted yupdduk combo (we got the cheese pork katsu along with it) felt well worth the price. For 24 dollars (lunch), the portions were more than enough for 2 people. Left extremely full and satisfied. I enjoy a good rice cake and with the cheese on top & sausages, fish cakes, and veggies mixed in, it was fully enhanced to another level for me. If you're a fan of melty cheese over everything, this is the place to go. read more

Ordered curry/rice, regular ddukboki, pork katsu side. The curry and rice cakes were tasty despite the questionable portion size. The pork katsu may be a side but for $8, the amount of food was laughable. Not to mention the sauce and the side salad were missing. The meat itself tasted like it was leftovers from the day before, way too dry read more

Yupdduk Flushing - Dry, old katsu side. Portion so tiny. - Korean Near Me - Flushing, New York

Came with my friend since we were craving korean food. They were following covid guidelines and there were even partitions between the tables. We were seated fairly quickly and givenm menus. They have a lot of options so I'll definitely need to return to try more things on their menu. We decided on a few things to get and our food came out pretty quickly. Portion size is excellent, you definitely get what you pay for. Taste-wise, it's very comforting and tasty. I'll definitely have to come back soon to try more dishes! read more

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I always ordered the bacon kimchi fried rice that comes with two sunny side eggs with green onions and Nori. The portion is on the smaller side and was a tad spicier than mild. The katsu set is also nicely fried with side of rice ball, cabbage, pickled radish, and macaroni salad (too sweet for my liking). The tteokbokki was nice and chewy with a hard boiled egg, fish cakes, a sausage and noodles. read more

Yupdduk Flushing - Kimchi Bacon Fried Rice Yupgi Topokki - Korean Near Me - Flushing, New York

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My boyfriend and I ordered the tteoboki for takeout one night and we got it in extremely mild. It turned out to be extremely flavorful, with just the perfect amount of spice for us. It was still spicy but the good kind of burn. We liked it so much we decided to go back with our friends for dine in, and tried several other dishes were were all pretty good. The service was good, the food was good and the prices are affordable. read more

The food was pretty good! Loved the pork Katsu to help with the spicy rice cakes and kimchi fried rice. Would recommend getting mild if you aren't good with spicy. Overall enjoyed the food and customer service was good. read more

Yupdduk Flushing - Assorted Yupdduk, Kimchi Bacon Fried Rice and Cheese Pork Katsu Special Combo - Korean Near Me - Flushing, New York

Food: Ordered the Pork Curry Noodle w/ Fried Shrimp. I believe this place is the same as Abiko Curry in NYC. The curry is really good and rich. I highly recommend getting a curry dish. Service: The service was exceptional. Not great but the food came out fairly quick. We went during dinner time but it wasn't busy at all. Good location right on Northern. read more

Yupdduk Flushing - Pork Curry Noodle w/ Fried Shrimp - Korean Near Me - Flushing, New York

Kimchi Cheese Bacon Fried Rice so amazing! I can eat whole plate by myself!! When you go please don't miss it! read more

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I always love coming to Yupdduk with my friends. Their teokbokki has a scale of spicyness you can choose from and a ton of add-on ingredients! It's always chewy and addictive with the sauce. Would recommend the seaweed rice balls or kimbap to dip into the sauce as well. Their kimchi fried rice is also pretty bomb and can come in a combo with the teokbokki too! I love the cheese and the crisp from the chips that are added. The kimchi katsu nabe was also incredibly delicious! Definitely one of my favorites and went great with rice. read more

Yupdduk Flushing - Kimchi Cheese Bacon Fried Rice - Korean Near Me - Flushing, New York

Ooofff We got mild for the rice cake But it was crazy spicy that I cried Taste was good in itself Spicy pork good and ofc white rice We got a large rice cake and it fed 4 people , 2 guys. 2 girls Family style so $12 per person Decent service Wish they offered to give us less spicy rice cake cuz it def was spicer than the previous times read more

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The food here is always good. They have alot of options and I love trying the other dishes. The sampler I got came with a good amount to try and their curry is a good amount of spicy! Highly recommend trying this spot out. read more

Yupdduk Flushing - Korean Near Me - Flushing, New York

I ordered for delivery two bacon kimchi fried rice. Both of them didn't come with cheese. I don't know if they forgot to put it or it just doesn't come with it. I checked the reviews and all of them had cheese in the kimchi fried rice. So I assume that mine rice was supposed to come with cheese too. But for some reason they didn't put it. The bacon kimchi fried rice was very spicy, it needs some kind of radish aside in order to contrast the flavor and make it less spicy. It'd be nice if they include it. I noticed that it has very little bacon in it, I could barely taste it. Very disappointing read more

Yupdduk Flushing - Kimchi & Bacon Fried Rice Lunch - Korean Near Me - Flushing, New York

I've been wanting to try this place since 2015 and just got around to it now. I ordered from this place yesterday. I got the Chicken Katsu, Bacon and Kimchi fried rice, Curry Rice and the Topokki. I personally ate the Katsu and hands down, it is the best Katsu I had in New York. It's both juicy but also crispy. The Katsu set also comes with the most radishes that I've ever seen a restaurant give. I know that's one of the cheaper items but details right? For the Topokki, I choose to get it mild since I'm not good with spice at all but for some reason always crave Topokki. It was okay but I felt like it was just a spicy flavor which made it very one dimensional. My brother in law got the Kimchi Bacon Fried Rice and he said for presentation, he would give it a 4 but the food taste like a 3 if he's being generous. My husband ate the Curry rice and he said it was good but very spicy. Either way, I enjoyed my katsu. So much that I even ordered dinner from Yupdduk again today. read more

We ordered the Moddem Yupdduk (the ddukboki with everyone on it) in the Mild flavor, because I heard that even their mild has a kick to it. I would recommend that if you're able to handle a bit of spice to go for the Spicy (the levels are Very Mild, Mild, Spicy, and Very Spicy) - I think it would've been more *fun* to eat. The Mild level DID have a bit of a kick to it, but being someone who likes eating spicy food, I enjoyed it but I would've enjoyed it more with a little more heat! It comes with glass noodles, an egg, fishcakes, little plump sausages (2), cabbage, and lots of cheese. We got it in a small size, which was adequate for splitting with the other food we got, but if it was the only thing I ordered for myself, I would've been able to finish it. I'd say the portion wasn't HUGE, but it definitely wasn't too small. Enough to make 1 person pretty full. We also got the kimchi fried rice, which was served on a cast iron pan surrounded by melty, crusty cheese and topped with a runny egg. This was also well-seasoned and delicious, and I'd definitely get it again. So....I was thinking about how much I liked the food, and I'm wondering if maybe I liked it so much because of the ample amounts of melty cheese that topped the food. Would I have liked it as much if it wasn't so cheesy? Probably not. But unless you're crazy, you'd be eating these items with cheese as well, so I guess this line of thinking is moot! Oh....unfavorable mention: the boneless chicken feet. LISTEN. Do not order this. This just didn't work. I think because it was boneless, you didn't have any of the bone to act as a foil to the fatty, cartilage-y goodness of chicken feet..so it was just mush...totally just mushy and sloppy and snotty. On top of that, even though the dish was spicy, it was totally bland - like they'd forgotten to use any salt to season the dish. To me, it was difficult to eat, and most of the dish was left. And at $23, that really sucked. However, overall, I'd recommend this restaurant. Their ddukboki was pretty good, the kimchi fried rice was good, and the cheesy goodness just can't be beat! I'd 100% come back here again. read more

Yupdduk Flushing - Massive cheese on the small modeum yupdduck. Yum! - Korean Near Me - Flushing, New York

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Love the combo which you can try ddukbokki + kimchi fried rice + pork cutlet altogether! The portion of this combo is more than enough for 2 people. I treid the curry udon and curry pasta as well, but the time I went, curry was a bit too salty. read more

It breaks my heart to update my review for this spot, but I have to agree with some other Yelpers that the service here has gone down since the new management took over. Now I'm not an unreasonable person. I understand how hard it is to work in the food industry, as well as the insane real estate prices along Northern Blvd in this area. I'm also very easy to please. But pleased I am not after several repeated visits in the last few months, which is a damn shame because I used to come here extremely often, including for takeout, for years now. And I've definitely been leaning towards more takeout, if that, recently. First the good news is they have a nice TV and some good K-Pop choices playing in the background. Food seems a bit saltier and spicier across the board than over a year ago, a subtle but noticeable level change, but it's still consistently good K-comfort food and taste-wise is great. Staff has done a bit better with the greetings and the basics, which is a positive change. But there's significant and reasonable room for improvement here. First and foremost, a restaurant needs to be hospitable or else why even come here? We've been going here for years and recommending the food to others, but the general atmosphere here seems chilly and standoffish, and we still don't feel like regulars. But the biggest issue here, and a huge red flag, is the absolute unwillingness to reasonably make the food as the customer prefers and the stubborn refusal for any accommodation (allergy, preference, or otherwise), even for something simple and already there, such as ordering chicken katsu over the pork katsu for dishes (which is the same price and categorized the same in their toppings section). The reason they gave last winter was that the kitchen was busy. Sure, it's only half full, but okay, understandable. Now that the place is empty, I'm told that this is the manager's rule, and he's not even here working. Yikes! At this point, why even bother having a table service at that point then? Just do takeout and pay fair wages to your staff if there's going to be a lack of service. A restaurant should never want you to go home and make the food yourself, especially since I can make a ridiculous amount of curry for the same price. It's just a huge shame and disappointment, as well as frustrating as this type of treatment fuels prejudiced stereotypes and hurts the AA community at large. It can't just be about pretty pictures and presentation - a human touch is crucial in the hospitality industry. This is a difference between your regular customers only spending $200 a year instead of $2,000 a year. It's unfortunate, and reminds me why it's so easy to appropriate K-food, whether it's our KFC being marketed as clean double-fried southern Asian-fusion chicken or the #1 Korean BBQ chain in the world being Japanese. But welp, I digress - that's a story for another day. Listen, I'm only upset for them because I think this place deserves more than being the current Plan B to the "Oh man, this place is packed, guess we'll settle for Yupdukk" situation. Otherwise, the food is decent, just management needs to step up with the service. They have a great new menu book, by the way. read more

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Long wait for tteokbokki, like 40 minutes, not sure why. But it was worth the wait. I'd wait 2 hours for their food

I was in the Flushing area and was not sure what to get but I knew I was feeling some sort of noodles. I walked by Yupdduk and saw some Yelp reviews saying this place was really good so I decided to give it a try, and it did not disappoint! The staff was very friendly and greeted us right away. Each table has its own hand sanitizer bottle which I really like since it is important to make sure we are staying clean and healthy. The water comes in it's own frosted glass bottle which is a nice touch. I ordered the Oden Udon Pot which comes with an assortment of fish balls and tofu, and an egg. The soup base tastes very clean and is very refreshing! I would definitely come here again and try other things like the Kimchi fried rice, which is another favorite of mine! read more

Yupdduk Flushing - Korean Near Me - Flushing, New York

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One of my favorite spots to grab some korean food. I also LOVE their deokbokki here. I've tried to replicate it myself, came close, but it just isn't the same. We ordered the deokbokki in mild but warning: mild could be very spicy! I normally come here with a couple of friends, so instead of ordering one dish for myself, we all order 3-4 dishes and share. The portioning is pretty decent and if you order this way, you get to try more of their menu. I've tried their curry pasta, spicy deokbokki, and their cheesy kimchi fried rice. I loved all three so I'm super excited to go back and try more items off their menu. Waiters are very quick and attentive, had no issues with ordering. Highly recommend this place if you're craving korean food! read more

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We come mainly for the spice especially when we need to destress. We get the couple set for two which is served with tonkatsu, teokbokki, potatoe salad, rice balls and kimchi fried rice with egg. It is very filling and delicious. We did try the regular spicy at first but it was not as spicy as we expected. If you can handle the spice and normally like spicy foods we recommend you go with the extra spicy. But as you keep eating, it will eventually start to burn!! We did try the extra spicy chicken feet and jokbal. They were delicious too. It would pair greatly with a bottle of soju. Unfortunately, we couldn't handle the spice and had to take it to go. The prices are fair and for a couple set amongst two people it'll run you around 30-35$ which is not too bad. The service is pretty good too. There's usually only one waitress so when it gets busy, you should expect some wait time. The store is located on the Main Street of of northern so expect some parking when you go towards the residential area. You can also park on the big street but don't forget to pay the meter. read more

Yupdduk Flushing - Jokbal - Korean Near Me - Flushing, New York

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Nice Korean Cafe in K-town Flushing. The atmosphere here is pretty modern. Located on Northern Blvd and 157th st. I've had this place bookmarked for quite some time. Finally made my way to this place and I liked it. I tried the hamburger steak. It came with some veggies, corn, mashed potatoes, and a couple of sausages. The hamburger steak itself had a slightly sweet sauce and an egg on top. It was a good size and pretty filling. It unfortunately didn't come with rice, so I had to order that as a side, at an additional cost. Although it's nominal, I'm not liking this trend, of charging for rice. Anyways, the meal itself was definitely hearty and tasty. Their menu is pretty interesting and I look forward to trying some other dishes. Cost isn't too bad and is in line with most of the other restaurants that are similar, in the area. read more

Yupdduk Flushing - Hamburger steak - Korean Near Me - Flushing, New York