Shin Chon - Old Ellicott City

Our first and also last visit to this restaurant:We, a group of 4, wanted to try this place for Korean BBQ. The food was ok and price was not too expensive.After paying and leaving tip $15 for a bill of $145 , we were about to leave the restaurant, and then a waitress called us back. She pointed at their suggested tips 18-20% printed at the bottom of the bill, and requested for more tip!That incident totally ruined our dinner night! I hope this will not happen again to other customers! For us, we unfortunately will not come back here after what happened to us : There are definitely other dining choices for us elsewhere.

I recently enjoyed a weekend meal here with my partner. I had the hot stone bowl (dolsot) bibimbap with galbi and she had galbi soup, and we both enjoyed our meals. The selection of side dishes was good too- kimchi wasn't too sour, which I appreciate.Lots of people were getting BBQ and that does appear to be the specialty. I'd bet the galbi is tasty when barbequed, as it was definitely marinated nicely. We will give it a try next time.Easy to access with plenty of parking. Clean, modern atmosphere.

Pretty good Korean traditional styled restaurant. They actually make korean food almost as authentic to Korean good made in Korea.. still not the real thing of course, but they 're really good. Some tables have Korean bbq style with a stove, some tables don 't have the stove. NOTE Korean BBQ restaurants have strong smells that will stay on you, your clothes, and shoes. Keep this in mind and try not to dress in your favorite outfits so you don 't regret getting that smell on your favorite outfits. Just put them in the laundry after you get home. Take a good shower afterwards too ??Their Bibim Naengmyun dish is delicious! One of my favorites. It 's cold noodles that have sweet and spicy taste. More sweet than spicy.

This spot has been a staple for YEARS. A reliable spot to go when you miss the typical 9 pm dinner cut off.. however that no longer holds true. Sit down early and you 'll avoid this true madness that we went through...We walked in 830 with a party of 10 ppl and 1 baby for Easter Dinner Bday celebration. Then was it communicated at 8:47 pm that the kitchen closes at 9 pm tonight. The door shows 10:30pm. No biggie though. We ordered everything within 2 minutes of being asked to push things through. It was 8:50 PM at this point.Service: Some were super nice ajjumas!!! A+ service. The rest were clearly ready to go home. It was super confusing because some servers would insist take your time as another server asked us to move from our spot, mid conversation, so she could fit her trolley for dirty plates and glasses into our seating area to clear the table as if we were leaving. There were ppl in our group clearly still eating so we were taken aback by the request. People are STILL EATING. As a result, this insistent server spilled food juice on the birthday boy. He was blocked in and couldn 't get up as she kept clearing our table.Management: idk why you were YELLING at your employers in korean while they were eating their dinner shift meals but we 're korean so we understood what you were saying. We were attempting to enjoy an Easter Birthday meal and you sucked the happiness out of the room.Food:Kalbi was delicious. Japchae was extremely overcooked. Soondubu used to be fire but this time around it was just okay. Sam gyup Sal (pork belly)And chadol (brisket) wasn 't cooked to my liking since the servers did it in the back.It would have been nice to be able to at least order more rice since it comes out of a rice cooker but the whole table failed to order more bowls of rice.

The combo meals comes with so much food! The servers cooks all the meat for you, but you can do it yourself if you ask. The banchan was a little underwhelming with overlapping flavors kimchi cabbage, kimchi radish, and another kimchi veggie) perhaps it was just that days banchan. Highly recommend the steam egg!