SYTK Sullungtang

I love this place. I come here for solo meals. The staff is really friendly and I just love the cozy vibes I get. I order the ox bone soup and I sometimes ask for the purple rice (that’s at no extra cost). The meal is around $20 w tip. I’m glad I found this place randomly the first time I came w a friend!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Affordable, best ban chan, great service! I got the galbi tang and loved it, will try the sullangtang or hangover soup next time. They have great deals posted, like a BOGO soup deal on Thursdays. Husband got the spicy beef soup which had a nice peppery kick. Really loved their ban chan though - very fresh. If you want purple rice, ask for it when ordering. There's a tea pot with barley tea in the back. Mom and pop shop so not as much seating, but feels very cozy! Bathrooms are clean. Parking lot in the front.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Good bowl of beef soup, service was good

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

great food

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Delicious and healthy feeling

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Food is delicious, price is reasonable, service is good.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

The owner of this place is very unfriendly. I do not recommend it.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Wonderful flavor on the mixed Sullungtang coupled with great value and a kind, courteous staff. A+++

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

It's a really good breakfast time offering price in a recession like these. It's definitely not the taste of msg, but the taste of gungmul, which is surprising for that price, seems to contain the soul of the cook.
If you pay a little more attention to the taste of kimchi and radish radish, the icing on the cake is a four-character idiom...

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 4

Reading the reviews for this restaurant, I am quite shocked. My parents recently had the displeasure of dining at this establishment and they were treated with such disrespect that I cannot stay silent. I usually hesitate to judge a place based solely on service, but this instance was a bit too deliberate and egregious for me to pass as a single instance of “having a bad day” on the owner’s part.

My parents decided to stop here on their drive home, having heard positive things about the food. Unfortunately, their experience was far from pleasant. They were seated in a corner and overlooked for most of their visit while the waitress, a middle-aged woman, prioritized the younger customers, attending to their needs with enthusiasm and care. When they finally ordered and got their meals, unlike other reviewers on yelp and google, they were given very small portions of side dishes and requested more after finishing them. It is very normal at Korean restaurants to request for extra side dishes if you run out, so this wasn’t an outrageous request. The waitress proceeded to berate them, saying they shouldn’t be asking for more of the side dishes. After bringing them over (with plenty of attitude, as if she was incredibly inconvenienced), she chided them that they MUST finish everything she brought, as if the thought of “wasting” banchan on them was personally insulting, so they said they would take home any leftovers if there were any by the end of the meal, to which her response was, no! You can’t take any as leftovers. You need to finish everything HERE. When my parents calmly pointed out her unnecessarily rude and patronizing attitude, the presumed owner (older lady seated behind the counter) who had been observing the interaction the entire time, stepped in—not to apologize, but to defend the waitress. She dismissed my parents’ concerns and implied that their request was excessive, claiming that some customers waste food, and that the waitress “didn’t mean it like that.” Instead of addressing the situation with professionalism, the owner doubled down on the disrespect.

At a basic level, the waitress has absolutely no manners or basic levels of respect for her customers. From a cultural standpoint, my parents were much older than this waitress, so her actions feel even more disrespectful. All they were asking was for a bit more banchan as they had been very stingy with the initial amount. Apparently, that’s all it took to set her off. As a business owner, I’m sure they account for minor loss of revenue due to people not finishing their banchan and it is built into the price of their menu items. But really, if this was SUCH an issue to her, she could have just brought them small portions again. She also treated younger customers much better, which makes me think she’s angling for good reviews and doesn’t care enough to keep up the facade for those who won’t be leaving reviews. They should be ashamed of themselves, and I hope they learn that they should treat ALL customers well, not just those they think will help push their business online. I know most consumers won’t really care if it doesn’t affect the quality of the food, but as a daughter, hearing my parents be demeaned by not just an unprofessional employee, but also the owner made my blood boil. I’m sure many of you would also be outraged if your parents were treated like this too.

As for the quality of the food, my parents did mention it tasted like it was watered down with milk- a common tactic for sullungtang restaurants that don’t want to take the extra time to cook down their bones and soup, but still want the “milky appearance” of a well simmered broth. For those of you who are looking for real sullungtang, I would heavily recommend Hanbat Sullungtang. Yes, they are pricier and have lines, but their lines move quick, they are consistently delicious. And most importantly, they won’t treat your older parents like trash.

Shame on you, SYTK.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

We never even got served, we were a small party of 3 and called ahead to ensure that the restaurant was open and taking customers, but when we showed up the owners were very rude and shooed us out. We thought it was because they were fully booked and explained we called in advance and they said there was space, but then they made some excuse about being out of rice and therefore couldn't serve us at all, even though we attempted to be accommodating and said we were okay with just the Sullungtang or noodles and we could work around it. It just honestly just sounded like they didn't want to serve us at all because of... Idk? Racism? Because we couldn't speak fluent Korean? Why waste our time and have us drive there if you're not going to serve us? Never been treated so rudely before.

Atmosphere: 1

Service: 1

They said it was a large bowl of seolleongtang, but I received an 18% tip even though the food was terrible for the price. Never be fooled by advertisements.....

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

The shiitake haejangguk that I had ordered at night was incorrectly wrapped with spicy yukgaejang, so I called and asked to do it again because my child was eating it so I would take it now. When I asked them to do it again, they said it would be time to close soon and without saying a word of apology, they would exchange it if I brought the same yukgaejang tomorrow.. In the meantime. I used to go there often, but if it's like this when it's crucial, there's no need to go anymore. Most customers don't do it because they want to eat one more piece of beef soup, but the owner of this restaurant doesn't consider the customer's inconvenience at all.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Disappointed in the taste of ramen soup, not the taste of broiler sauce!
Don’t you think that a seolleongtang restaurant must have kkakdugi flavor to enjoy the seolleongtang? I was given unripe radish radish and I asked for cooked radish, but I went there every day and there was none!! lol

Food: 1

Service: 1

Ramen good, warm and flavorful

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 5