Majang Dong
“Food: I've only tried kalbi and gobchang (intestines), so I can't comment on the other meat.”
“great old school korean bbq joint with old school korean music…meat cooked on open grill fueled by wood logs”
“there you will find about 15 round tables with plastic stools.”
Majang Dong
Takes Reservations: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Outdoor Seating: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
7 reviews
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If I can give this place more than 5 stars I would. One of the best Korean BBQ restaurants I've ever been to. Even though they serve only about 7 different types of meat, cold noodles, and chicken this place is definitely on my top 3 Korean BBQ restaurants. I believe this restaurant is family-owned which I love and willing to go there to eat to support them financially LOL. We ate outside and the weather was PERFECT. The atmosphere was so home-like and comfortable. You might think the meat is overpriced (ranging from $25-35), but the other side dishes that come with it makes it worth it. But what stood out the most was the service; the service here is no joke. Extremely attentive, tending to your every will, making sure that we had plenty of water/side dishes, etc. Amazin' staff. I will most definitely come back here.
OMG this place is amazing! If you're looking for an affordable Korean BBQ experience in an old-school, backyard setting, then this is the place to be.
The service was impeccable. We arrived around 7PM on a Sunday night and were seated immediately. They'd check up on us every few minutes to refill waters and side dishes (yes people, SIDE DISHES ARE FREE AND UNLIMITED) My top two sides: ox tail soup and freshly tossed salad!
Menu is very simple. You pick your desired meat and they take care of the rest. We went with pork belly, intestines (yum) and a spicy fried chicken. The chicken was not actually cooked on the grill, but came as a separate fried chicken dish drenched in a spicy-sweet sauce.
Would I come here again? Absolutely yes. I've already made plans to take friends visiting from out of town here and have no doubt in my mind that they'll love it as much as I did!
Place is hidden in the back of a tiny shop that doesn't look like it sell anything but a few pieces of fried chicken in the front. When you walk in the back it's like you stepped into some street food place you find in the korean dramas. Menu was limited which is good so you don't have to decide what to eat. You can just order meat and a few other dishes. Food was good and plenty. They give you soup, steamed eggs, plenty of kimchi and bean sprouts. Definitely come back again.
Majang Dong
NY Queens Flushing
7pm Tuesday 23rd February 2016
Five Stars
At this month's Gastronauts dinner, we ventured to Flushing Queens to enjoy some Korean BBQ. The sign has no English so use your gps. The inside is small and sparse, but they have a backyard area. We sat in the wooden shed covered with tarps to shelter us from the rain. The plastic pink chairs and flimsy tables give it an authentic Asian experience. Even though the surroundings are not posh by any respects, the food was great. They use a wooden stove heat an open grill. We started with some traditional Korean salads: sweet bean sprouts and Kimchi. We enjoyed their famous marinated kalbi pork chops, grilled eel, grilled squid tentacles, fried gizzards, and fried intestines. The pork was tender and flavorful. The eel was good but you have to be careful of little bones and/or scales. The squid was not chewy and had spicy Kimchi taste. The gizzards were delicious but are bit chewer than the rest of the offal family. He intestines were bit more plain and bit oily. Overall, I enjoyed everything. We drank a table full of Kloud Beer. The beer was malty, creamy, with a strong wheat taste. The staff was quite nice.
4.5 stars!
On a quest to find the highest rated Korean BBQ in Queens, I set out to travel 40 days and 40 nights to reach Flushing (we all know Flushing is far from everywhere else in Queens-like another state/paying toll type of feeling)
Got here and noticed a whole strip of small restaurants with titles all in foreign, but this spot was still easy to find.
Walked in and escorted to the back by the patriarch of the family, which literally felt like someone's backyard BBQ. Pink round chairs surrounding multiple tables, brightly decorated posters, and some tables strictly for grilling.
Waiter, the son I'm assuming, with limited English approached us, was able to communicate what we wanted which for some reason we decided chicken.. (we should've tried the beef and pork instead to enhance the experience).
Matriarch grills next to us instead of us doing it ourselves which I was ok with. She was a beast– with all the cutting, seasoning, flipping etc.
Since ours was chicken it arrived from the kitchen where patriarch was. I gotta say…THOROUGHLY impressed! Fried chicken with very tender white meat inside, delicious BBQ dipping sauce, hefty portions. Also came out with little unknown"finger foods"?!-which tested our palates.
We also ordered spicy noodles and white rice on the side which we didn't have to because portions were no joke.
Noodles itself were cold..not exactly what we expected but still flavorful, preferred it to be hot though. Also tried their Kloud beer and it was really good.
The atmosphere + quality food + price + smiling staff = a phenomenal and unique dining experience. I'll be back to try pork and beef dishes!
Ajumma does it best, and boy does she know her way around a grill.
I'm still not sure how I came across Majang Dong initially, but my friend's friend was in town, craving KBBQ, and I had a place on my hit list. An hour later, we found ourselves on plastic stools in the backyard of the restaurant.
The menu is pretty simple, only 6 different types of meat, 6 other dishes, and a drinks section. We went for the beef rib, pork rib, and threw on the pork belly last minute. Their banchan wasn't my favorite, consisting of cabbage kimchi, bean sprout kimchi, and pickled peppers and onions. It also came with a soybean soup, which was real tasty, and steamed egg. The soup reminded me of a beef stew in flavor but much lighter in texture. The steamed egg was lightly salted and refreshing.
For the BBQ, they only cooked the beef rib in front of us. The rest was cooked on side grills and brought to us when ready. They were accompanied with the traditional soy-based BBQ sauce, lettuce leaves, and we got some rice to share. I would definitely recommend the beef and pork rib as they were tender, fresh-tasting, and paired real well with lettuce. The pork belly was a little disappointing as it was a bit tougher and had less flavor.
To be very honest, the food is good but not exceptional. What is unique about the place is definitely the environment. For the two hours we were there, it felt like we were transported to the streets of Asia, listening to Kpop on the radio, and surrounding ourselves with Korean food. For that, I would definitely come back. Also, the pricing was very fair, running just over $30pp including drinks and tips.
My Korean friend told me to check this place out. It's very traditional Korean he says especially with the plastic pink stools.
At first, I walked past this place because there's no sign in English. It had no windows either and the door was covered it bamboo shades.
And when you walk in, my friend told me just to walk straight to the back right to the garden. The garden is half shaded and half not.
No one spoke a lick of English there except one kid who told her we were the second non Koreans to go here. That's already a good sign! He said most people know this place through word of Korean mouth.
My friend told me to just order the first one on the menu, which was the marinated pork. It was so tender and flavorful and had the perfect smokiness to it because of their charcoal. It came with tons of little banchan and the spicy tofu soup and the steamed egg soufflé.
I also ordered the pig entrails because I'm a big fan of intestines and they were amazing on the grill. The server was hella surprised that we ordered it too but it was delicious.
The service was amazing, everyone was kind. The water was constantly refilled and there wasn't even a hesitation when we were running low on kimchee. They just brought it.
The bathroom was clean as well. Small and old school but clean.
Just be careful about the grills underneath. It gets super hot and it can burn you under.