Topokki Man is a Korean snack bar, mostly known for its dokbokki, a kind of Korean rice cake. It is actually situated near my house, but I didn't really notice it until some friend of mine asked me if I have been there. So out of curiosity, me and my friends tried to research more about it, the exact location, the service, the menu, the price most especially. We wanted to know if we could afford the foods even with our tiiiiiiight budget. Fortunately, their foods are all budget-friendly, ranging from P15-300, ain't that cool?
Their interior is nothing fancy, the usual Korean-style walls painted with pastel colors, cute decorations and doodles and polaroid photos hanging everywhere. Too bad, I forgot to take pictures of the place. Anyways, it also got mini bookshelf, and Korean books are stacked in properly. I just don't know if it's purely for decoration purposes or what. Maybe customers can read those while waiting for their orders? Though I prefer they get me Korean magazines of droolicious Korean stars, ha.
We ordered dokbokki topped with cheese (ofc, we can't miss trying their specialty), ramen topped with rice cakes, Dakangjung, fried sweet potatoes and fish cake. If you think we ordered too many, yes we did. We end up bringing home the leftovers since we were already too full.
[!!!] The Dokbokki. We craved for it, we got it. Ahhhh, I haven't tasted dokbokki as good as this one. Seriously! And with its melted cheeeeeeese on top... simply daebakkkk! With my first bite, I was disappointed because I didn't feel its spicyness, and dokbokki is supposed to be hot and so spicy. But the more I chewed, the more it became spicy. Sooo gooood!
Side Dishes: Kimchi and Pickled Radish. The side dishes always come first before anything else in every Korean restaurant I've been to. You got to taste them before anything else, which is not really a bad thing. I always enjoy pickled radish, it's my favorite side dish! Meanwhile, I didn't really enjoy the kimchi.
Dakangjung. This tasted so good as well but we regretted ordering this one. We actually ordered it because it was cheap. Little did we know, we were looking at the wrong price and was actually cost twice of what we thought. But if you're not on a tight budget, make sure to taste this chicken meat balls or dakangjung.
Ramen Topped with Rice Cake. Yum, ramen is always yum. And their serving was huge. We couldn't take in the whole bowl of ramen even though there were three of us.
Fish cake. I always see this in kdramas, when the leads are out to eat some street-food. It's a kind of rice cake, only it's served with broth and on stick.
Fried Sweet Potatoes. We actually wondered if these are potatoes that are sweet or really sweet potatoes. We had the answer when we ate the last one... sweet potatoes. Nomnom.
Try all these and more at Topokki Man. Happy eating!
Side Dishes: Kimchi and Pickled Radish. The side dishes always come first before anything else in every Korean restaurant I've been to. You got to taste them before anything else, which is not really a bad thing. I always enjoy pickled radish, it's my favorite side dish! Meanwhile, I didn't really enjoy the kimchi.
Dakangjung. This tasted so good as well but we regretted ordering this one. We actually ordered it because it was cheap. Little did we know, we were looking at the wrong price and was actually cost twice of what we thought. But if you're not on a tight budget, make sure to taste this chicken meat balls or dakangjung.
Ramen Topped with Rice Cake. Yum, ramen is always yum. And their serving was huge. We couldn't take in the whole bowl of ramen even though there were three of us.
Fish cake. I always see this in kdramas, when the leads are out to eat some street-food. It's a kind of rice cake, only it's served with broth and on stick.
Fried Sweet Potatoes. We actually wondered if these are potatoes that are sweet or really sweet potatoes. We had the answer when we ate the last one... sweet potatoes. Nomnom.
Try all these and more at Topokki Man. Happy eating!
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