Du Kuh Bee

This place is never fail they have the best noodle. They make the noodle in house one noodle at a time. Is always packed whenever I come. But worth the wait. This place is also good for drinking place with friends. Remind me of a hole in the wall Korean place. My must visit restaurant whenever I am in town

Literally a tiny restaurant. Heard of a galley kitchen? This is like a galley restaurant.
We were starving when we got there so we opted to sit at the bar. If you’re okay with the servers brushing up against your back and no place to put your purse, then opt for the bar if you’re starving and don’t want to wait.
Still it was a little while for our food to come out. Its a bit torture as you stare at all the food being prepared in front of you and then the dishes pass you by.
We got the handmade noodles with chicken and Kalbi.
It was good. However, I couldn’t really tell exactly what I was eating because its so dark inside. If you like vegetables and greens I didn’t see much of that on the menu. Kalbi was good.. .not too sweet and salty, but yummy and greasy.

Amazing little suburbian secret. Can’t wait to go back.

A good friend of ours recommended this to us, so we were excited to try it. We were a little nervous about how the quality of the food would be, since when you get to the front door, it’s apparent that it’s a «hole-​in-​the-​wall» type of place, and sometimes those are questionable. But we shouldn’t have been worried at all. Great smells right when you walk in. Great service. If you sit at a table by the kitchen, you can even watch the cooks busy at work making food, which really adds to the experience. The tables are kind of intimately close together, and the air is thick with the smell of delicious Korean food, so it’s definitely not a suit and tie place, but definitely an experience. I would recommend getting a bunch of dishes and sharing off of each other so that everyone can try different things. We love the baby bok choy, pork mandu, fried rice, and of course the Du Kuh Bee noodles. Very home-​cooked food that will leave you feeling content.

We love this place a lot because of their tasty food. I called today and place a to go order. They refused my order as they are busy. The women who answered the phone was not apologetic at all! I wish they can improve there costumer service. I guess their too busy to take my money! Lol

The fried hand pulled noodles tasted great! My husband got chicken and I got squid, but his was salty while my was a bit sweeter. The baby bok choy was good, too! I loved them! The waiters were kind, keeping checking on us. Will definitely come back again.

Sometimes getting a table takes a while as well as getting your food. However, it is well worth the wait. I love that they are open late.

Hands down the best Korean restaurant and my favorite place to go on date night. I love the atmosphere, it’s family owned and run, and never gotten anything that tasted anything but amazing. Open late even!

Just had a delicious meal at Du Kuh Bee. It’s a tiny hole-​in-​the-​wall restaurant. Wonderful food, attentive staff, and reasonable prices. What more can you want?

A great little hole in the wall in central Beaverton. At certain times you can watch them pull their own noodles!
Décor: It’s simple with slight Korean accents. Small place, either you’re against a wall or in the broadway of the restaurant (this is the only drawback.)
Drink: We only purchased a raspberry wine which was quite good.
Food: I had the noodles with chicken (medium hot)…which were fantastic! Getting fresh noodles of this fashion really was eye-​opening on the idea of fresh hand-​pulled noodles. It wasn’t as hot I would have liked but I was unsure of how hot they would be at new-​to-​me establishment. My gf had the beef ribs on top of grilled onions (on a still-​hot cast iron plate). She enjoyed them, but the onions enhanced the meal.
Service: Quite good even though it was quite busy. Waiters were very helpful and attentive without being intrusive. As we inquired about the noodle-​pulling upon arrival, once the «show» began he pointed it out to us as we dined.
Overall: Great little place, wish they had more room. Get the noodles!

Delicious Korean food that hit the spot! The kimchi fried rice and the hand pulled pork noodles are our two favorite dishes! Very tasty and the noodles were perfectly cooked.
Love this place, except that the restaurant is really really small.

⁵⁄₅ solid stars
Yum!!! Delicious food that hit the spot.
Du Kuh Bee is a small venue, so I suggest to come with a small party, no more than 4 ppl, otherwise the wait may be fairly lengthy.
Ordered:
1) Hand pulled Du Kuh Bee noodles with spicy pork: ⁴⁄₅ yum – the noodles were so fresh!!!
2) Braised Pork: ⁵⁄₅ this reminds me of Vietnamese Thit Kho – the braised pork was fall off the bone deliciousness
3) Pork Mandu: ⁴⁄₅ steaming hot dumplings!

Definitely a great place to go to explore Korean food.
Tiny restaurant so expect to wait to get a table. Make sure to sign up at the entrance.
They have changed the menu with the prices as well. Many items have been added. At least $ 2-​$ 3 has been added to all the items. Call me «that guy» who wants to eat a lot but complain about the price but their prices are pretty high.
Their food’s quality is no doubt. It usually takes awhile to make even though the salad, yet the quality is outstanding. Freshness from the vegetables, juicy from the meats and flavorful from the spices.
Definitely will be back!

Hand freakin-​pulled noodles?! Yes they already sound better than machine pulled, week old noodles. The food was good, the service was a little lacking. Language barrier? This tiny little spot has small occupancy, so be ready to wait should everyone crave Korean. Lots of choices — so try something you’re used to or trying something new.

I cannot think of any better use for chopsticks than eating noodles! If you want to find some of the best hand pulled noodles in the Portland area you have to stop by Du Kuh Bee!
It is a small restaurant and there aren’t many tables but the food is definitely worth the wait. The inside looks like an old style restaurant you might see in Korea and it’s got that dark ambience to it!
They have a lot of selections on the menu but we had to try the hand pulled noodles. You can actually watch the staff preparing the food and making the noodles if you’re seated in the right spot.
We ordered the Hand pulled noodles with pork and another with tofu. If you come here, you have to at least try one noodle dish. But if you see a plate of those beautiful noodles go by you’ll probably do what I did and change your order to the noodles!
The food was wonderful and as far as noodles go, this is now my favorite place for hand pulled noodles in the Portland area. The balance of flavors is spot and the texture of the noodles was as close to perfection as you can get.
All of the staff were helpful, polite and professional. There was a young man with a ball cap and young woman who gave exceptional service. They seemed to constantly be scanning the dining area to refill water containers, bring more banchan or seeing if people needed more beer or drinks.
The one downside was that there was just kimchi and sweet pickled radishes as the banchan! Having lived in Korea for almost a decade I understand there are restaurants that offer only those two banchan but it would be better to have a few more available. One of the joys of eating Korean food is having many different types of banchan available, especially because it will be a few weeks before I go out for Korean again.
You have to get yourself here and try the noodles!!!

Du Kuh Bee came recommended from a Portland local. Apparently the hand tossed noodle scene is a big deal in this city, and Du Kuh Bee is supposed to be one of the best.
The location is tiny. Maybe 30 seats total? It’s really small and feels like you just walked into a slice of a downtown Asian city storefront. We got the Du Kuh Bee Noodles and fried rice. My god. Those noodles… Unbelievable. They taste so fresh, so soft, and with such perfect texture, you just might weep for all the other sad noodles you’ve have until this point. Having never had fresh hand tossed asian noodles before, these just blew me away. The fried rice was also amazing.
I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve craved this place since I left Portland. One of my most memorable meals in a long time.

Hole in the wall, check! No reservations, check! Korean with a twist, check check! We ended up here one night around 8:30pm, looking for Korean, and on a friend’s recommendation.
The wait was worth it, though. We started off with the hand made dumplings, and followed that with the hand shaven squid ink noodles, which were so GOOD, the ma po tofu, and braised short ribs with fried rice. Throw in the grilled mackerel, and we rolled out of there satiated, and feeling reinvigorated about Korean cuisine. So often, Korean cuisine is Kim Chee at every turn, not so here! See you soon.

This place is super small! Which means there’s usually a long wait… honestly, the first time I tried to come in, the exterior kind of put me off and I decided to go elsewhere. Shame on me. Seriously. I decided to give it another shot and was actually surprised by how cute (and small) the interior was. The service was a little slow but very friendly.
I came for the hand shaved noodles and they were amazing. I ordered the simple vegetarian noodles with mild spice. They had the perfect bite to them and it wasn’t too spicy. But let’s just say that every time I wiped my mouth, it’d be stained orange. I could have easily eaten one order on my own… but I opted to save it for my girlfriend (who loved it). I also got the dumplings and they weren’t bad. For the price and quality, I’m definitely going to come back. The place did leave a smell on my clothes though!

Oh so good!
Best Korean Food in this part of town!
My brother and husband had the Spicy Kalby Ribs, flaken cut short rib with a Korean Kalbi sauce similar to teriyaki. Also they both had the Spicy Handmade Noodles with veggies and Spicy Cucumber salad, kimchy and daikon relish plate.
Mom and I shared the Braised ribs with the low spiced noodles veggies.
My brother had a Korean Beer, lager light. He said it was refreshing!
A taste of home, as my mother-​in-​law law used to prepare.

As much as I tend to rag on NYC for its lackluster Viet scene, I tend to do the same with Portland’s nearly abysmal Korean scene. If ever there were a Korean spot that looks nothing like the others, it might just be Du Kuh Bee. It has amassed a reputation over the better part of two decades for providing authentic eats, in divy conditions no less, for people who know what they want.
In the early 2000s when I first discovered the joint, the ownership at the time was Korean. The menu was considerably simpler, the place was so bare bones that a sign was barely visible from the street. The parking was limited to street parking (same as it is today) and the open kitchen was the only thing that was the least questionable. The tables and bathrooms were literally on their last leg.
Cue Chef Frank Fong, who took over DKB several years ago. Though he’s Chinese he’s taken the time to ensure the quality of the food stays consistent with the fare established long before his current reign. The menu has understandably become more Korean-​Chinese, with a bevy of stir fry and sino-​compatible eats, all while giving the place a serious makeover. The space now fits more people and a prominent can’t-miss sign now adorns the building.
He incorporates hand pulled noodles, something that new patrons often marvel at as he whirls noodles left and right before he serves it to them. Things like Ja Jang Myun (炸醬麵) is made quite well here: fragrant, plentiful, and the bolognese blankets the noodles with just a touch of oil. It’s not the best I’ve ever had by any stretch, but it’s good enough to merit multiple orders. I would avoid the U-​Dong noodles and go exclusively with this.
Then there are is the wonderful mandoo dumplings, which look more akin to the dongbei (東北) variety one might see in Chinese cuisine. The skin is nicely smooth and the pork fillings always keep me in a happy mood. From first glance, they would look more shui jiao (水餃) than Mandoo, but as long as they’re tasty, I don’t think many would care that much.
Most of the Korean dishes are meat heavy. From chicken and beef bulgolgi to ribs, gizzards, and squid. There is also octopus (nakji) available, which gets my nostalgia bell all set in. No pajun, jigaes, or banchan to speak of, which may be red flags to Korean lovers seeking more traditional dishes. At least the kimchi tofu ($ 14) is solid, but it’s hardly pungent enough to win over the masses.
The prices are affordable and the service gets it done. I still appreciate that the place is open till 1AM nearly every night, especially when the rest of this area in Beaverton is completely dead.