Taste is all right. Not the best but also not the worse.One star for its price - for a little restaurant at this place, $20 for a tuft soup and $40+ for short rib is not acceptable. See attached receipt. This is outrageous.
Gar G
This place is way better than you expect, generous portions, delicious banchan, surprisingly flavorful tofu. Will be making this a regular stop whenever I'm in Berkeley.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Johnny Kim
Very poor quality dishes and over priced. Servers never came to check on us after serving the food.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 1
Service: 2
Joseph S
Pyeongchang is the place to go for some good Korean tofu soup. My favorite is their spicy yangnyeum fried chicken! ? ? ?
It was a horrible experience here!!! We ordered tofu soup, LA galbi, and bibimbap for lunch, but when I got the tofu soup, I saw rice inside the soup. This was quite odd because normally rice is served separately. I asked the employee what was going on, and he said that the chef used the same spoon to cook the bibimbap, so rice got mixed up in my soup. It was very disgusting, but I tried to be polite and asked them to make it again. However, it took almost 20 minutes to get a new soup. Additionally, my husband noticed that some of the employees in the kitchen seemed very uncomfortable with our comment about the soup (I didn't complain; I was just wondering why there was rice inside the soup. I thought maybe they had a different recipe!). This is my first time visiting here, and I was very excited because there were lots of good reviews for this restaurant. However, my experience was horrible, and I am skeptical about their sanitary conditions. Anyway, we did not eat the soup and just left the restaurant. I will not visit here again.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Graham Balch
In our opinion, this is the best Korean restaurant in the Bay Area. Every one I've taken here has loved the food. The BBW spicy pork is super yummy. Also, they bring this rice shell, which is crispy hollow rice that you can break apart and put in their delicious soup. I highly recommend trying this place out.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Kaitlyn Kong
Amazing food. Great service. Super yummy.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Lingling Wang
Gotta be honest, the experience here was way too salty for my liking. The crispiness and the bite of the dishes were drowned in salt, making it a bit overwhelming. The chicken, in particular, seemed fried a tad too deep, not quite my type. Unfortunately, the taste didn't align with my preferences.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 4
Vicky Wang
I adore this place, particularly for its small dishes - the food is always fresh.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Soup
Douglas Chambers
Nice chance to come in out of the cold for a hot (bubbling!) bowl of umami rich (even the vegan) soup. My Korean food experience being limited, I was grateful for the helpful servers explaining everything on the menu that we had questions about.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Mushroom Tofu Soup, Soup, Mung Bean Pancake
Yea everything is good. The portion size for the tofu soup could be bigger like on the east coast u def get way more and you have to pay a dollar for an egg, east coast it was always free. I was not full from my order of tofu soup. But we got the fried chicken and it was solid. Would I return? Prob not unless somebody else wanted to go but not my first pick for that area. Service is chill but ambiance isn't anything special.
Garry M.
Food is too good. Love it. Will come again. Quantity is also large. Best Korean restaurant in town.
Nam D.
Coming from Los Angeles where Korean food is basically on every corner, Pyeong Chang Tofu is honestly one of the few soondubu places in the Bay Area which I would qualify as decent. However, it is still a far cry from the soondubu places that I go to in Los Angeles.I ordered the seafood tofu soup, and it was pretty tasty! I only wished that it was more concentrated in flavor, and that it was spicier, given that I ordered spicy. The shrimp were pretty tiny, and there weren't too many clams, a little pricey for almost $20. We also ordered the kimchi tofu soup, and I honestly preferred that more. Lastly, we split a kimchi pancake, and it was pretty good, but almost $20 for a kimchi pancake is pretty overpriced, even for Bay Area standards.The big pros are that the banchan is great, and I really like their crispy rice that they give out! My mom is a big crispy rice lover, and if she ever visits, I'll definitely take her here!Overall, a solid spot to satisfy my tofu soup cravings, but not even comparable to the LA Korean scene.
Emmeline T.
I'm a little disappointed with this restaurant given the good reviews that it has. All of their food just missed the mark for me. I will give them credit for having decent service, but I probably wouldn't come back because the food was not anything special. It was also a little more expensive than most Korean restaurants I've been to with much better flavors. Their interior was also very nicely decorated. Coupled with the decent service, they made it a good dining experience. I got the seafood pancake and galbitang. The seafood pancake was decent. The galbitang was a little bland for my liking. We got the extra spicy sauce, but it was still not that great. I would recommend going elsewhere for better Korean food.
Christopher Lee
Bland, extremely overpriced American-Korean food,the service is great
Taste is all right. Not the best but also not the worse.One star for its price - for a little restaurant at this place, $20 for a tuft soup and $40+ for short rib is not acceptable. See attached receipt. This is outrageous.
This place is way better than you expect, generous portions, delicious banchan, surprisingly flavorful tofu. Will be making this a regular stop whenever I'm in Berkeley.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Very poor quality dishes and over priced. Servers never came to check on us after serving the food.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 1
Service: 2
Pyeongchang is the place to go for some good Korean tofu soup. My favorite is their spicy yangnyeum fried chicken! ? ? ?
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Soup, Korean Fried Chicken Soy Glazed, Fried Chicken Wings
It was a horrible experience here!!! We ordered tofu soup, LA galbi, and bibimbap for lunch, but when I got the tofu soup, I saw rice inside the soup. This was quite odd because normally rice is served separately. I asked the employee what was going on, and he said that the chef used the same spoon to cook the bibimbap, so rice got mixed up in my soup. It was very disgusting, but I tried to be polite and asked them to make it again. However, it took almost 20 minutes to get a new soup. Additionally, my husband noticed that some of the employees in the kitchen seemed very uncomfortable with our comment about the soup (I didn't complain; I was just wondering why there was rice inside the soup. I thought maybe they had a different recipe!). This is my first time visiting here, and I was very excited because there were lots of good reviews for this restaurant. However, my experience was horrible, and I am skeptical about their sanitary conditions. Anyway, we did not eat the soup and just left the restaurant. I will not visit here again.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
In our opinion, this is the best Korean restaurant in the Bay Area. Every one I've taken here has loved the food. The BBW spicy pork is super yummy. Also, they bring this rice shell, which is crispy hollow rice that you can break apart and put in their delicious soup. I highly recommend trying this place out.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Amazing food. Great service. Super yummy.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Gotta be honest, the experience here was way too salty for my liking. The crispiness and the bite of the dishes were drowned in salt, making it a bit overwhelming. The chicken, in particular, seemed fried a tad too deep, not quite my type. Unfortunately, the taste didn't align with my preferences.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 4
I adore this place, particularly for its small dishes - the food is always fresh.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Soup
Nice chance to come in out of the cold for a hot (bubbling!) bowl of umami rich (even the vegan) soup. My Korean food experience being limited, I was grateful for the helpful servers explaining everything on the menu that we had questions about.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Mushroom Tofu Soup, Soup, Mung Bean Pancake
Restaurantji Recommends
Yea everything is good. The portion size for the tofu soup could be bigger like on the east coast u def get way more and you have to pay a dollar for an egg, east coast it was always free. I was not full from my order of tofu soup. But we got the fried chicken and it was solid. Would I return? Prob not unless somebody else wanted to go but not my first pick for that area. Service is chill but ambiance isn't anything special.
Food is too good. Love it. Will come again. Quantity is also large. Best Korean restaurant in town.
Coming from Los Angeles where Korean food is basically on every corner, Pyeong Chang Tofu is honestly one of the few soondubu places in the Bay Area which I would qualify as decent. However, it is still a far cry from the soondubu places that I go to in Los Angeles.I ordered the seafood tofu soup, and it was pretty tasty! I only wished that it was more concentrated in flavor, and that it was spicier, given that I ordered spicy. The shrimp were pretty tiny, and there weren't too many clams, a little pricey for almost $20. We also ordered the kimchi tofu soup, and I honestly preferred that more. Lastly, we split a kimchi pancake, and it was pretty good, but almost $20 for a kimchi pancake is pretty overpriced, even for Bay Area standards.The big pros are that the banchan is great, and I really like their crispy rice that they give out! My mom is a big crispy rice lover, and if she ever visits, I'll definitely take her here!Overall, a solid spot to satisfy my tofu soup cravings, but not even comparable to the LA Korean scene.
I'm a little disappointed with this restaurant given the good reviews that it has. All of their food just missed the mark for me. I will give them credit for having decent service, but I probably wouldn't come back because the food was not anything special. It was also a little more expensive than most Korean restaurants I've been to with much better flavors. Their interior was also very nicely decorated. Coupled with the decent service, they made it a good dining experience. I got the seafood pancake and galbitang. The seafood pancake was decent. The galbitang was a little bland for my liking. We got the extra spicy sauce, but it was still not that great. I would recommend going elsewhere for better Korean food.
Bland, extremely overpriced American-Korean food,the service is great
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 1
Service: 5