PalPal 88 Korean Hotpot Restaurant

5 Reviews on “PalPal 88 Korean Hotpot Restaurant”

• Chelsea Cheah

  We ordered two sets of the raw soy crab and prawn set, Smokey soy boneless chicken, corn cheese, spicy sea snails and mango makgeollli. The food was very underwhelming, the raw soy crab and prawn weren’t very fresh, they smelt and tasted a little fishy which was quite sad cause the flavour profile was good but the fishiness made it a little difficult to eat without a lot of rice and washing it down with water. The seaweed rice with raw yolk was really nice though. The Smokey soy boneless chicken was nice, very juicy. The sea snails had good flavour but they were just okay, so was the corn cheese. The Mango makgeolli was expensive a bottle costed 28 dollars. and didn’t taste all that fantastic either, it was quite bland, the mango taste was very subtle and for some reason the drink was very foamy and the foam didn’t settle even after being left in the cup. The ambience as well was extremely warm, don’t come on a warm summer night cause you’ll be sweating lots if you’re seated upstairs. Overall, food is underwhelming, service is so-so, very pricey.Don’t think I’ll come back.

  February 4, 2020, 2:02 am

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• ＪＯＥＬＬＥ

  Another new Korean eatery in the city.Update:Came at 12am and the staffs were lovely as always. Food didn’t take long either.Egg rolls definitely improved and now we enjoyed it!The kimchi pancake was quite yummy too and size was pretty big, there werr some parts that had spicy powder concentrated though which was weird but nice and crispy outside and yum flavour.Rice balls were also pretty good and relly affordable.Lastly they now have side dishes (sweet potato, water spinach and kimchi) all of which i enjoyed.Really glad with the improvement! :)PS Zomato Gold available.I came on a weekday night and was pretty quiet. The seats were on the 2nd floor and it was really dim inside. There was only one staff and she was really nice but it was really hard to call her up as she was the only one working and mostly at the counter (not in our view). Food took a reasonable time to arrive.Had the roast pork with beansprouts. It was a good portion, although the meat and beansprouts were the same amount. The flavour was good, although I wouldn’t say it’s more of a Chinese inspired dish. Also, it didn’t come with rice which is an extra.The cheese egg roll was okay. It was definitely lacking in flavour and there were quite a lot onions compared to usual. The cheese could also be more generous, though I like the salad on the side.They also didnt give side dishes though they gave me kimchi when I asked about it which was a bit of a shame. They did finally gave additional radish kimchi though was too salty and okonomiyaki (which is Japanese?)Overall, I feel like the food could use more work, but since it’s new hopefully there will be better changes and maybe more menu additions (especially the more common Korean dishes)PS I left my wallet and they actually kept it for me which was really nice :)( follow for more!✨)ｘｘ，ｊｏｅｌｌｅ.

  January 20, 2020, 2:22 am

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• Melbournefoodieee

  They are special for their raw crabs, however if you are coming to try this, definitely call to check if they even have it.When we came here last week the seafood soup had two octopus in there with heaps of tofu, so if you are a tofu fan then this is the soup to order, don’t expect there to be mainly seafood. The soup was quite plain and watery.Rest of the food quality was average, the table and seats were quite dirty to be honest.

  January 1, 2020, 7:53 am

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• Lachlan Zhang

  Pork bone hotpot has big portion and it is really tasty! Soy crab was really good and the only place in MELBOURNE can be checked out. Ice peach is not that sweet It’s really cold for this weather.

  December 1, 2019, 2:21 am

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• Xumei Zhang

  We had a set of prawn and crab. They run out the soy crab so we get the spicy crab which is full with flavour and freshness! Love raw food ! Definitely will come back. All of us feel good under such a hooot day today !Lovely staff here too!

  October 2, 2019, 8:40 pm

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