Cheong Dam Dong

They are no longer a korean meat bbq place. They’re still using the grills located at each table, but instead of meat, they grill a whole variety of mollusks. Combos start from $ 39.99 all the way to $ 99.99. Very tasty but kind of hectic with a huge variety of foods that need to be eaten before the clams get too tough! We went during the first week of their grand re-​opening so it was very busy.
Ambience– A great place for you and your buddies to hang out for a drink while grilling your own shell fish. Very loud because that’s what every other table is doing. Eating, drinking, and having a good time.
Food– It’s advertised as clam bbq, but you get a whole wealth of foods on top of the shell fish. You get steamed eggs, mussel soup, korean pancakes, spicy rice cake, and another soupy noodle dish that comes with kimchi. This is on top of the scallops, gigantic clams, shrimp, and oysters that are grilled at your table.
Service– It was grand opening weekend so they were very busy. However, their service when present was top notch. Very helpful and friendly.
We can’t wait to go back on a weekday when the crowd isn’t so crazy.

Hwarosarang is NOW CheongDamDong although they still have signs up claiming they are Hwarosarang they have changed…
the décor is the same and the signs are the same but the menu is completely different & ownership has changed… now they no longer have any sort of korean bbq MEAT & instead they now have Clam/​Seafood BBQ. now they have 3 possible combo choices of $ 39.99 (small) $ 59.99 (medium) & $ 99.99 (large) .small/​med just varies in portion but the large comes out with a few diff items
my fam of 3 ordered a small and it came with porridge, salad, quail eggs, edamame, then some korean pancake, dynamite, tempura, stirfried udon, clam soup, and etc
then the clams came out, HUGE ones, small ones… scallops, squid, sorah (dunno it in english looks like a CONCH… ginormo snail looking thing), oysters, mussels, shrimp etcetc they grill it for u pour some cream/​spicy sauce here and there… grill some shrimp for u wrapped in foil and voila~ theres ur feast…
we also ordered 1 abalone for $ 7…whatttt so expensive! but the first one did get extra burnt so they brought us another one on the house
its EXTREMELY mehhh if obviously u dont like shellfish. and for me im not a huge fan but thats not why its a 2star… its a 2 star because often they forgot to come around and help cut up our seafood and they ended up overcookin on our grill, a LOT of our clams hadwayyy too much sand and rocks lodged in them… my dad had to keep spitting it out… the tempura i know is just a side but was stale… bleh they also make u a lil scallop fried rice with the left over sauce and grill it for u in a shell i was excited to eat but it was soo verryy plain…
at the end u get this huge wok filled with kal gooksu… which is some really good hand rolled noodles its sorta thick but really yummy. that was alright.
u can also order raw oysters, different clams, and etc for an extra price and i think the soju was near $ 10…at the end $ 65 and if it wasnt for the noodles/​gooksu i would have starved!
wahhhh wheres the meat from hwarosarang… sad
btw they a serveurself yogurt machine… that thing i squeezed so hard and barely anything came out! i dint try it looked good but my dad disagreed ahah
have fun shellfish lovers