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Captain Corea · Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Location: Seoul

Has anyone else checked this place out? I went there for their buffet a few weeks ago and was really dissapointed. Wazwan up the hill has way better food for near the same price.

The_Eyeball_Kid · Joined: 20 Jun 2007

wo buxihuan hanguoren · Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Location: Suyuskis

I enjoyed the buffet when I had it there. Maybe I was still tipsy from the night before?

A few weeks later, I bought one of their schwarmas - not good.

SeoulShakin · Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Location: Seoul

It's shit. The only good thing was the naan bread, and you can get that elsewhere.

I went there once with my boyfriend on a second visit, cause he wanted to try it for himself. They told us to seat ourselves, which we did. 30 minutes go by, and we haven't gotten a menu. Every time the waitress walked by us, she would look at me, make eye contact, sneer, and serve someone else. I was pissed. So after that 30 minutes I (quite loudly and rudely) said "We've seated ourselves as asked, it'd be nice to get a menu. Four tables who have come in AFTER us have been given a menu and food already". So we got one menu... to share. Finally decided what to order, only to be told that what we want, we can't have. Chef isn't in. There are only 4 choices. That would have been nice to know when we walked in, not after being ignored for half an hour, getting nasty bitchy looks from the waitress, and having to literally DEMAND service.

We left. Went to Marakesh night instead. Much better food, much better service, and the people there are downright friendly.

I'll never go back to the "foreign restaurant" again.

SeoulShakin · Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Location: Seoul

Sorry for the above beeped words up there. I didn't think they were THAT bad, but apparently they aren't allowed. You can get the drift anyway haha.

ruffie · Joined: 11 Oct 2006

Yes, it's terrible. I wasted my entire escape from Ulsan weekend Indian food budget on that place. I should be more Korean and stick to what I know. I could have gone to one of the nicer places that have never let me down. Everything was dried up and rubbery, too gritty with spice.

PeterDragon · Joined: 15 Feb 2007

Do they really just call it "Foreign Restaurant"? That just screams "bad".

icnelly · Joined: 25 Jan 2006 Location: Bucheon

wo buxihuan hanguoren · Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Location: Suyuskis

Man, I sent a PM to Quinella ages ago recommending this place I think, now I look so the fool!

Seriously though, I went there on a Friday afternoon with jaganath69 pretty much when they just opened the place, he knows his Indian food pretty well I think, both of us thought it was pretty good.

Maybe they have just gotten slack recently?

Captain Corea · Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Location: Seoul

Take the extra 5 minutes to walk up the hill to the Mosque. 10 meters past it is Wazwan, nice people, good service, great food.

It makes the "Foreign Restaurant" look like an overpriced Bombay McDonalds.

wo buxihuan hanguoren · Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Location: Suyuskis

jaganath69 · Joined: 17 Jul 2003

Man, the garlic stuffed roast lamb there is worth the price of admission alone. Granted the rest is not great, but I'd take it any day of the week over bark, pigfat and kimchi.

Dev · Joined: 18 Apr 2006

The people who own / run The Foreign Food Restaurant started the restaurant after opening the Foreign Food Mart.

They should have just focused on the successful store that they opened. The poor service there shows that they don't know very much about operating a restaurant. It's more than just importing some good cooks from India. There's something called "service" that they've completely neglected.

The waiter I had there didn't smile - just had a bored look on his face like he didn't want to be there. If he doesn't (at least pretend to) want to be there, why should I want to be there?

The buffet was just okay. While some dishes were good like the dahl curry and the tandori chicken, but there were servers there that were not refilled for a long, long time. I wanted to try the lamb kebab, but there were only two pieces of really dry lamb sitting there. Man, if you're not going to restock your buffet with fresh food regularly, why should I eat it?

The waiter also didn't check up on me for water. The food there is quite spicy - great for spice lovers, but you need to get your water pretty regularly if you're going to eat it.

In a nutshell, the food was decent - not the best I've ever eaten, and not the worst. But the service was lacking.

If they restocked their buffet more often and concentrated more on pleasing the customer, they might have a decent restaurant.

That said, even after doing these things, I'd still recommend Wazwan much more than The Foreign Food Restaurant. It's really delicious and the service is very good & friendly.

Taj Palace, a new Indian restaurant started by the original owner of Wazwan (Wazwan's ownership has changed, but not the food because its cook has remained) also serves very nice food. Taj is across from The King Club (near Foreign Food Restaurant) and they have a buffet on Saturdays & Sundays.

jaganath69 · Joined: 17 Jul 2003

shifdog · Joined: 20 Jul 2006

I also thought the food at "foreign restaurant" was pretty good when it first opened. But it seems to have gone downhill. It's very inconsistent. If you don't get the buffet, it takes forever for the food to arrive. The service also sucks.

The mango lassis are putrid.