KJ Tofu House Kunjip
“The interior is designed much nicer than the one in Manhattan and there's definitely a different vibe and customer base.”
“The side dishes are great and they almost always give the steamed egg that my wife likes a lot.”
“Ban chans are quite good, but not as plentiful as some places I've been in NYC.”
KJ Tofu House Kunjip
Takes Reservations: Yes
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Caters: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
8 reviews
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This review is strictly for their breakfast service. They have $7.95 morning specials until 10:30 AM, a fantastic deal. The portions are hearty and the taste is great. They usually give you a fried egg to go with your meal too (unless it's towards the back end of the breakfast service and they run out). It's one of our go-to spot for Korean breakfast on weekends.
I LOVE bossam – it's one of my favorite Korean dishes. It's hard to find a restaurant that will serve it with raw oysters during the summer (which is completely reasonable – oysters spoil mad quickly and it's not worth the risk of food poisoning), so most places just provide the pork, pickled cabbage leaves, and turnip kimchi. It sounds like a pretty weird mix, right? WRONG.
The pork is actually boiled, which makes it super tender and almost gelatinous. I know this isn't making it sound any better, but I swear it's delicious. Kun Jip does a pretty good job – they even serve the pork on top of a warmer that's heated by a little portable fire. Fancy!
Great people but the spicy tofu is bland :/
We did take out and I always love ban chan but my mom and I were kind of disappointed
When we came in at 10:30 with a group of 10 people this is the only place that would harbor us. Food was, quote and quote from the owner, better than the kun jib in manhattan
this place claims to have no MSG in their food. i think it's mostly true b/c my stomach is sensitive to MSG and it wasn't bothered the next day. they may use it or some other form of it but for the most part their food is clean.
we got there at 11:30 and it wasn't that packed. it's right across from the municipal complex. it was a decent size with a traditional korean design. we were seated right away and the service was pretty good throughout. they brought out new sides when we asked for it. the dishes were good as well. we got the yeol mool bibimbap ($9.95) and si lae gi soup ($8.95) which is basically a spinach type soup and nothing else in it so it wasn't really worth it although it tasted good. we also got a fried fish and miso soup combo ($14.95). these are all lunch prices. the rice is the mixed grain kind, which i like.
overall, i would recommend this place.
In the middle of perhaps the largest collection of Korean food eateries and businesses in the USA – Broad Avenue in Palisades Park – a wonderful restaurant called KJ Tofu House is to be found. This is a sister restaurant to the well-known The Kunjip Restaurant in Koreatown in Manhattan. But I like the Palisades Park branch more. For one it's more accessible and two – it's friendlier. In an attractive environment on the main street of Palisades Park, tasty Korean food is on offer. The complementary banchan at the beginning of the meal were super. The kimchi was very flavorful – it's gotta be for a Korean place to have any cred. My main course of squid and vegetables served over rice in a hot bowl totally hit the spot – especially when I added some Gochujang sauce. And there were several more complementary dishes added to my meal including a steamed egg, a soup broth, and a refreshing drink. Service was with a smile and when I ate so much good food at such a low price, I couldn't help smiling back!
OK. This place brought decent dish to me, but there was an issue that I didn't quite like how they handled the problem.
I went to this place because I was badly craving spicy pork with tofu and kimchi (it is one dish with all there). They had it so I ordered it in a lightening second. Then the server came back to me, saying the chef refused to serve this dish because their kimchi today is not in good quality. So up to this point I totally understood that the chef was very thoughtful about the food they serve. As an alternative I decided to go with regular spicy pork. Then the server said spicy pork is only served as combo with korean miso soup. I didn't want to have the soup so asked the server if I could just have the spicy port especially since they couldn't offer what I originally asked. Then the server passed me the chef's word that eating soup is my choice, but the dish should still be ordered as combo only.
I don't want to be a mean customer but I was a little perplexed because it was ok to not serve the food that's on the menu, but not ok to modify the menu to make up for their problems/mistakes. Btw the food was ok, and the service was a little more attentive than average korean restaurants.
I took my father to Kun Jip to try their breakfast menu items but we got there a few minutes after 10:30am so they gave us the lunch menu, which obviously has many more options at higher prices.
Both my father and I ordered the grilled mackerel/soy bean paste stew combo. While the stew and the banchan (side dishes) were above average, the fish wasn't as fresh as I had hoped. I am used to the mackerel being very fishy, but these were exceptionally fishy, to a point where I had to squeeze some lemons on it, something I never do on Korean food.
The service was excellent and prices are reasonable. I would try Kun Jip again but order a different dish the next time.