It was a warm Saturday evening on the 5th of November in Ampang, Malaysia and it was all by chance that my friends and I drove pass the Korean Town in Ampang Avenue to find that it was unusually crowded than before.
Koreans filled the streets of Ampang Avenue like you've never seen before.
K-pop music were being blasted on stage. Korean children running along with their toys and snacks in hand, Korean teenagers dressed up stylishly to be with their friends, and Korean uncles and aunties chatting away at a table filled with beer and soju. The atmosphere there made us feel like we were actually in Korea itself.
As you can see, the ajumas' are all working tirelessly to prepare their country's delicacies so that we Malaysians could have a taste of what's the fuss about Korean food.
Here we have an ajuma in orange t-shirt pounding the rice cake dough on a wooden board with a really big pounder. An ajuma in her traditional hanbuk cooking up some dukbokki for her hungry customers. An ajuma stretching across the sizzling hot grill to place skewers of spicy chicken meat on it. And then an ajuma in a cute yellow apron frying a sweet bun with sweet fillings inside on her hot pan. Our last ajuma with a cap is found also cooking up Korea's traditional snack food, dukbokki.
You can never find better Korean food other than here. With all that's said, nothing was free at the Korean Festival and the food price wasn't anything like what our chee cheong fun cost. I'm talking RM5 for a stick of spicy chicken meat, I'm talking RM10 for a small cup of dukbokki, and I'm talking about RM6 for a bowl of Pat Bing Soo (shaved ice desert), its something like our ABC/ ais kacang here.
So if you're willing to spend for food then Ampang Avenue is the place you should visit for a pigout at their variety of BBQ restaurants. I highly recommend Han WooRi if you're looking for a upscale Korean BBQ restaurant with a nice environment.
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