Abaee Noodle

Sadly, this location has closed !!
There’s another location on Pleasant Hill in Duluth (near H-​Mart area). I hope it’s still open. Will check soon.

Great, Decent, Great, Decent, Great, Decent
My girlfriend is a Korean Chef from Seoul and said this place used to be unbeatable at some dishes. When the owner is there and sees her it is on like Korean Thanksgiving. Then we go back for a light lunch and the food is just ok. So what do I do?
4.5 stars, 3.2 stars, 4.5 stars, 3.2 stars, 4.5 stars, 3.2 stars
We need half stars like Abaee needs to get their mojo back.
Out

Sad but true. This place is but a shadow of its former self. The pork soup no longer comes out super red and full of flavor. The cuts of pork used for the steamed pork dish are no longer pork belly, and there just isn’t the love that used to be there. I remember a few visits back when I saw the head chef leave with a not-​so-​happy expression on his face. My guess is that he left for good. I didn’t have the cold noodles until recently, and that was a disappointment as well. Sigh. Probably won’t be back here for a while…

cozy place and very good authentic noodle place,

The place is pretty small, like previous reviewers said it seats like 20 – 30 people tops.
The menu is very economically friendly ranging from 8 – 14 bucks. I was a little confused on what to order so I settled for the Combination menu of Blood Sausage w/​clear noodles, Boiled Pork, Liver, and a Pork Soup. Yeah it’s not your run of the mill Korean Kim chee and Grilled meats, I went Offal Guys!
There is your basic side dishes of Kim Chee, radishes ect. Normally there is onion pancakes too. but it came out at the end of our meal cause we asked for it.
Food came out pretty fast. My plate was huge, and I pretty much munched on the meats, ate little of the rice and soup. What got me was I was VERY confused as to how to eat it. A bunch of sauces were placednear me, and that was it. I pretty much had to ask how to dish it up. At the end I pretty much dipped into all the sauces and had a field day. Food to me was old school, home cooking food. It was good, but not like how I had imagined it. The pork did not melt in my mouth, it was rather cut in different sizes and was just like boiled pork. The liver was a bit on the hard side and it was pretty much boiled liver. I like my liver sauteed w/​onions or deep fried, this boiled stuff sucked to me. The blood sausage w/​clear noodles were great. I digged it. very moist and melted in my mouth more so then the other meats presented.
The soup was a real kicker. it said Pork Soup. and don’t get me wrong, if you like Pork Heart. you’d love this soup, thin slices of heart boiled up in a red (not as spicy as it looks broth). and it was ok, but not as I had imagined. It had real no taste, I could decipher if it lacked, but it lacked something.
Highlight of the meal was the dumplings (steamed and very good). they were complementary by the resto. so nice!
Would I come back? Sure, its solid food, and in great company its a fun place to meet up! But I wouldn’t come back by myself.
Others in the party ordered cold noodle dishes and they were not as satisfied and happy w/​the meat portions, which I agree looked very few. But the service was good, and they even split our checks without hassle (total points for an Asian place)!!
But overall I had a great time– good company– good service. = great evening!

I love their SunDae (pig intestines stuffed with rice). Ever since Seoul SunDae closed down, I was craving some good SunDae.
The place is a nice, cozy place. It doesn’t seem like it can hold a big crowd. The prices are fair. But I don’t feel that they give you enough with one dish unless your stomach is a size of a supermodel. Therefore, you have to get the combos if you want a satisfying meal.
The number of banchan is very skimpy. I’m used to SoKongDong’s banchans where they give you about fifty-​million things. SongKongDong gives you so much, I feel they have no room for the main entrees. That’s not a problem here – plenty of room for your main dishes.
Their menu is nice and simple too. But for a noodle place, I felt they missed some dishes like jjyormyun, kong gooksu, and others.
I ordered the neng myun. It was good, but not phenomenal. I mean it’s neng myun. What else can you do with it? It’s a simple dish.
For now, I’ll give it 3 stars – maybe +.5 more for it’s simplicity and quaintness. It’s not a place I’ll crave, unless I crave for some SunDae again. If I come here next time, I’ll try the sooyook since everyone seems to say it’s good. It’ll be ironic that none-​noodle dishes are the reason I’ll come back to Abaee Noodle.

This is a tiny Korean noodle/​soup restaurant. Menu is small, with about 6~8 different noodle/​soup dishes, but also dumplings, steamed pork, and galbi. I’ve been here three times now and just about everything had been delicious.
Very clean and nice space that seats 20 at the most. Extremely hard to find as it is in the back of a plaza on the side of a corner you wouldn’t think to turn into. Panchans are few – always just kimchee, pickled daikon (lovely), cabbage salad (with oriental mayo dressing), and my favorite pan fried green onion cake. All the noodles are amazing, a great example of specialization making for few but perfect dishes. Whether it’s the cold or hot noodles, broth is wonderful and noodles taste great. In the hot soup the beef is thick and marbled. Presentation is worth mentioning too, as all the dishes have a look of delicacy to it. It’s not the kind of place that just throws stuff onto a plate. The steamed pork platter is decent. I enjoyed the sausage but didn’t like the liver which was dry and chalky. Extremely friendly and personable service.
The tantalizing cold noodle broth (notched up with extra vinegar and spicy sauce) with the picked daikon and pear slice are absolutely rejuvenating on a hot day. I just had it for lunch and walked out of the restaurant deeply satisfied.
I feel like this has been better than most of the 4 star Korean restaurants I reviewed. Perhaps a couple more visits will convince me to make this my first 5 star Korean restaurant.

Like the bibim nengmyun but it’s too sour sometimes. I like mine to be a bit on the sweeter side than sour. They should pull back on some of vinegar. But overall, i like the thinner buckwheat noodle that they use and i haven’t had better at other korean restaurants. I like the fish slices they put in it.
Soondae is mediocre and i think their combo plates are a bit overpriced.
But if i must have bibim nengmyun, i guess this would be it.
I think it’s such a simple dish to make but for some reason, none of the korean restaurants seem to make it right.
I’m used to awesome Korean restaurants in LA and none of the korean restaurants in atlanta even come close. Oh well, i guess that’s the best that they can do. Never been to korean restaurant in atlanta and thought «that was really tasty, i need to come back». It has always been a disappointment. It’s more for filling my stomach rather than for good taste.

Abaee is a word similar if not the same as Oppa, which is what a girl calls an older man that she is attracted to. Interesting name for a family style restaurant. The waiter stated that they only have three noodle dishes and all of them are cold, unless there is a soup that they can toss some noodles into for you.
The location is hidden around back of a shopping center off of Buford, and everything is brand spankin’ new with tons of parking. We arrived as soon as they opened on a Saturday and the owner greeted us. He wanted to help us with the menu and let us know what «kind of food American customers like,» and wanted me to order the Galbi.
The menu had translations, but they were not actual. For example, Stir Fried Spicy Rice Cakes and Korean Sausage was called Spicy Pork Stir Fry ($ 13.99) which I ordered. The sausages were made in house and were actually the best that I have ever had, mixed with hot pepper powder, onion, cabbage, and rice cakes. There as also a side of noodles to mix into the sauce, and the entire serving was enough for two people. From the photos of sausages on the front of the restaurant and the dishes including them on the menu, sausages must be their specialty.
The Spicy Pork Soup ($ 8.41) was a clear broth soup, but they give you a jar of homemade paste to mix in to make it spicy. The soup included tripe, kidneys, and blood sausage, and pork in the broth. Maybe they thought we could not handle a boiling red pot of soup, but I am quite used to it and make it at home. Or maybe that is the way it was served for everyone.
Pajeon was the special Banchan of the day, and we must have eaten two plates of it, dipping it in the spicy paste for the soup. There was also loose leaf cabbage kimchi, radish kimchi, and a coleslaw type salad.
All of the food was amazing! It is true when other reviews say that there is not much overlap with other menu’s in the area. The food does not seem dumbed down either. I also found it interesting that we were separated from the Korean customers by a wall near the entrance. I have never experienced that sort of segregation in a Korean restaurant before whether it is Manhattan, Canada, or Tampa. Maybe it was just a coincidence.
Their hot pepper paste was so good that we just kept eating it with everything and our faces were flushed and noses were running. The owner seemed worried and came over to ask, «Are you OK?»
Entire meal for two with tons of leftovers was $ 23.97 before tip.
9÷8÷12 update– I spotted a restaurant of the same name on Pleasant Hill Rd in the plaza just East of Hmart. Located on the 1^st floor, bottom right.

I have no frame of reference to form a comparison. Cold noodle soups with Korean flavors are something that I just don’t have regular occasion to eat. A couple of co-​workers and I ventured over to this very hidden (on Oakcliff just east of Buford Hwy in the back corner lower level of a multi-​business brick structure) little mom-​and-​pop. Our small table enjoyed the following:
–Cold noodle soup — very cold broth supporting a handful of fruits (asian pear) and vegetables (cucumber, radish) as well a heaping portion of (rice?) noodles. If you choose, mustard and vinegar are available to enhance. I liked it — perfect summertime food. Tasted like a slightly spicy and quite sour raw food health tonic. ($ 9)
–Flour noodle soup — same flavors as the above, but the broth and noodles were both flour based. Looks like Korean Noodle Alfredo. To my un-​initiated palette, it tasted like a combo of cold noodle soup and crêpe batter. ($ 9)
–Steamed pork — my co-​worker raved about this dish. An ample portion of juicy, thinly sliced pork, two dipping sauces (Korean BBQ style spicy and a shrimp paste based), onions, hot chiles, cucumbers and daikon. ($ 10)
–Bottomless sides of daikon and kimchi (very good). (no charge)
Our service was very friendly and attentive, providing menu suggestions as well as instructions regarding how the food was to be combined and eaten.
I probably won’t be returning for lunch at this hidden little gem just because of the relative geographic inconvenience combined with my slight aversion to menus without a greasy non-​healthy item.
It’s not you. It’s me.

I was in Korea once. For seven hours on a plane layover. But it seemed cool enough to visit again, though unfortunately that will be long, long away since I’m out of travel dollars and vacay days.
So as a substitute, I’ll go back to Abaee Noodle. The only way I found this one was from the previous Unilocal from Yuna P & Diana L (thank you ladies!!), who I hold in high regard to be Buford knowledgeable based on their Unilocal.
So with great excitement, I finally found little Abaee around the back corner of the shopping plaza and pulled on in. A wee little place that got very busy very quickly on the Saturday afternoon when I visited. Also adding to the ‘dude this place is the real deal’ was the greeting in Korean and the fact that I was the only non-​Korean speaking person in there. Don’t get me wrong, I am sure many a non-​Korean seek out this little taste of Korea in Atlanta, but as we know, it’s always a good sign if there are actual people from the country eating there, too.
I wasn’t quite sure what to get, since my Korean cuisine knowledge spans from Korean BBQ and those seven sweet hours in Korea, so I went with the cold noodle soup (also the pictured item and first thing on the menu). Pretty tasty. Next trip I am going for. .. well. My plan is to try everything on the menu, actually.
My meal was about ten bucks and had me buzzing about «the cool Korean place I just tried» all weekend. Well worth it!

Even though they’ve changed owners, food is still great!
I always order bibim naengmyun («mixed”/dry, cold buckwheat noodles) and soondae (Korean sausage, which I think is meatless) — without the liver and ears. The first time I went, I was tricked into trying the liver (too chalky) and the ear (too chewy), but that is another story for another time.
I love their jun side dish! Every time I go, I probably ask for at least three refills on the jun :)

Abaee is a hidden gem on Buford Highway. It’s in the shopping center which isn’t directly on Buford Highway. For this reason, Abaee is really easy to pass because it’s literally hidden. But if you are a true foodie, trying to find crème de la crème, then grab your GPS devices, this place is a must-​try.
Abaee only serves few things, including soondae (Korean sausage), sooyook (Steamed pork), and Nangmyun (Cold buckwheat noodles). They serve one of the best soondaes I’ve tasted outside of Korea. Although I’m not a fan of pork, I really love their sooyook. But my favorite dish from Abaee is their Gomtang (Oxtail soup). Surprisingly, their dishes are really cheap! I was so impressed with our paycheck, although my boyfriend and I literally stuffed ourselves to the point we couldn’t move.
Their service is very personal and superb. They are very attentive and have no problem refilling any of banchan (side dishes). Since my boyfriend and I are frequent diners here, they always show their thanks through free soondae dishes. I don’t know about you, but free food always meant «Dine here again» in my dictionary.
If you want to try something different, but still great, then venture off to Abaee. Feel free to ask the nice and helpful waitress if you have any question about the menu. Many of their dishes are low on the grease-​level, so if you are looking to try non-​greasy Korean food, then this place might fit the bill as well.