Pyeong Chang Tofu House Oakland 오클랜드 평창 순두부

The kimchi tofu soup with beef is so so good that I get it every time.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Food is bad. Fish cake side dish was too sweet, tofu soup was salty. The tofu soup was also priced at $20.99. I do not recommend a mid tofu soup at that price range. I go to MBR nearby instead.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 2

Service: 4

Just a wonderful dining experience. Welcoming and attentive staff, pleasant bustling atmosphere. Food was exceptional, i had the bi bim bop, others had the tofu soup. It was absolutely delicious served sizzling hot it a stone crock with delicious sides!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

I came here on July 23rd 2025 around 11:30am to get the soft tofu with my wife. We had few questions but the server was very rude and mad.

We ordered spam cheese soft tofu and original lunch soft tofu the food came out faster than side dish. I asked him for the side dish and he brought them out. BUT, when he was bringing the side dish, he brought the heavy crispy rice pot with it and threw it on the table and it had really loud noise, we were very scared by that and he didn’t even apologize about his move.

The food is good but if I see the same server in the restaurant again, then I would go to different place right away.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 5

Service: 1

Good Korean food. One of the few places I've been to that serves kong guk su, so that was a welcome surprise for a sunny day. Fairly quick service. Does suffer a bit from the bay area price inflation though, so wasn't the cheapest meal. Overall, not bad for the occasional large group lunch.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 3

Recommended dishes: Kong-Guksu

Excellent service! We tried the Dol Sot Bi Bim Bap and original fried chicken. Both dishes had great flavor.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

The food here is awesome!!!! Especially the 【fried chicken】 and 【soil milk cold noodle】!!! LOVE IT

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Service (working crew) was amazing. Food is delicious and they brought a big portion

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Expensive as expected

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

Really pricey for what you get. It tastes great, but portions are egregiously small. The photos in Google reviews don't do a great job of conveying how small the soup entrees are.

Food: 5

Recommended dishes: Vegan, Mung Bean Pancake 녹두전

We ordered tofu soup and seafood pancake. The restaurant serves free small cold appetizers that are commonly served in Korean restaurants.
These appetizers are good. I wish they have fish cakes hahaha.
The pancake is the best I ever had. It’s so crispy.

I adored PT(Phyungchang Tofu) for long years. I'd enjoyed their food for about 10 years. Their food was exceptional with the chef's masterful seasoning skills with sugar and salt. The banchan(assorted small free dishes) was so special, I'd wish to buy them if I could. The service was perfect and people who worked at PT was so energetic and happy. Their old-fashioned interior reminded me of authentic Korean restaurants. Everything was perfect,

until the pandemic took over. Here is my honest and worrisome review about Phyungchang Tofu.

1. High Price
Most affordable dish is almost $20 or more expensive. Their special menus are now $40~60, and I can't find reason why I need to eat at PT over fine dining restaurants.
The price changed everything. Now the banchan has less variety. the soup bowl is smaller. The seafood pancake is smaller. Inflation is a strong excuse that we all expect. But the high price boom in Korean restaurants scene, is very sad story. Because old time korean food was good, big, and cheap for people. I understand the business owner, but man.. you'd better find other way around.

2. Lack of flavor
I don't know what happened on their kitchen. Every dishes lost its magical seasoning level. It just became tasteless. Amount of main protein (such as beef, seafood) reduced significantly. the number of banchan reduced. the kinds of banchan became generic. And their main tofu soup completely lost its deep and rich flavors. PT lost their core skill, flavor, and its end of story. I am willing to pay money as long as the food is good as before. What happened.

3. Service
I found they extended their business to Berkeley. Yes, I see PT were successful over years in Oakland. But I started to see owner or manager people only counts money at the gate. And employees were just moving food from kitchen to table. Not so much interaction or checking on the current table. I couldn't see experienced old time waiter or waitress any more. They seemed looking new, overworked and unorganized.

4. Atmosphere
They need to remodel their restroom immediately before opening a new restaurant in other location. It is old and unpleasant. The table used to be authentic feeling, now it is fully covered with grease. The only change was fancy menu with higher price marks.

5. Unidentified Menu
KFC(Korean fried chicken) is very hot item in korean restaurant business in the US. And it appeared on the menu of PT too! It was good. But their quality of KFC was not the top notch on the market. It may ruined the balance of food quality, and it may lose identity of affordable normal people's common dish: tofu soup restaurant. They need to review their menu and do real business.

I used to eat at Phyungchang Tofu almost once in every 2 week for about 10 years. Now, I don't go PT anymore. The menu, identity, they all come from the food(flavor: 맛) and the consistency of master chef. I am willing to pay upraised price as long as the food is good. but I am afraid, because nowadays, replies on reviews are macro. I apologize on hard review, but man you gotta do something.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 3

Service: 3

Recommended dishes: 섞어 순두부 combination tofu soup

The food is good, their famous pancake is good but not incredible, it was very soft. But in general the food does have flavor and I recommend it.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 3

I ordered from this restaurant on ubereats.com. I specifically asked for additional chopsticks. Unfortunately I never received any chopsticks or napkins with the order. I have lived in Korea and I am surprised that they don’t include chopsticks with the basic order. Any place would include some basic utensils,especially in Asian restaurant where you expect the basics to eat, chopsticks.

Great food but there’s a high likelihood your car will be broken into of you parked nearby.