We were excited to find a Korean place in southern Ohio/northern Kentucky.  The reviews were highly positive, but that is not always meaningful in small cities. Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, good Chinese and quality Japanese are usually found only in big cities, Columbus and Cincinnati for us.  So we headed over to Maysville on a rainy Saturday to explore.  Maysville has more than food and is a historic town in northern Kentucky with a nice museum and great river views.  So it was a great trip for the family. 

We were impressed with the breadth of the menu and ordered a sampling from a few categories: seafood pancake, Tteokbooki (rice cakes in sauce), and dumplings.  This is likely an atypical order, but it is good to test the boundaries of a restaurant.  A safer order would have been the Korean restaurant staples of bulgogi (Korean stir fried meat) or bibimbap (a bowl of rice, meat and vegetables which you mix). 

We were disappointed when we tried it the food.  It wasn’t the best Korean we’ve had, but it was definitely edible and we enjoyed it enough. The sides were good, not as spicy as most Korean restaurants in big cities, but still very good.

Plating skills are desperately needed; we we got looked nothing like the menu.  The dumplings tasted oily, the seafood pancake was ok but not like we expected and only had a little bit of seafood, the tkeokbokki was very disappointing in both plating and taste.  Overall, the dumplings were edible by our kids, who liked the oily taste.  The OH Food Guy did enjoy the seafood pancake even if it was only a little seafood.  The tkeokbokki wasn’t bad, but wasn’t flavorful at all and it was just plopped on a plate with sauce and no care for presentation.  

The place was empty when we were here (no other customers), but the waiter still forgot stuff we ordered (we’re not complaining).  The food didn’t taste bad, but it tasted nothing like we expected like the Korean places we’ve been to in Asia, Dayton (a lot of Korean diaspora), or LA.  Next time were in the area, we will go with more American fare and wait until we are in Dayton for Korean.