Teum Sae Ramen

As a regular customer, I am very upset with this restaurant. Yesterday, I drove all of the way from Orange County to this place and arrived at 11 pm so I can be told that my friend and I cannot eat there because we aren’t 21. I have ate teum sae ramen many times at different times of the day and suddenly the manager decides to tell us that the restaurant doesn’t allow people under the age of 21 in the restaurant after 10 pm. Where is this stated? Why didn’t anyone else tell me this before? Are they going to give me the gas money I wasted driving over there and back? Will the manager give me back 3 hours of wasted time back? I don’t think so. We just wanted to eat some ramen noodles and that was all. What the manager did was so rude and outrageous. My friends and I will never come back to this place.

Given the negative review of the previous reviewer… I feel compelled to write my own after trying Teum Sae Ramen.
To start… Korean ramen is very different from Japanese ramen that many compare to. It’s like trying to compare noodle dishes varying from Italy to Japan to China to Thailand. Same premise, but totally different styles.
Korean ramen, are stereotyped as same you’d find at various Asian markets, instant. If you go to the Japanese ramen houses, many use dried noodles that are «instant,» no different than most Italian spaghetti, penne and linguini that you find at supermarkets. Rarely will you find fresh, hand-​made noodles at most noodle establishments (although those rock albeit more expensive).
So reviewers argue, why pay $ 5+ for «cheap» korean ramen at Teum Sae Ramen that you can easily find at Asian markets? Start with a basic $ 5 ramen (either in spicy or miso soup base) with various vegetables, rice cake, and a poached egg in addition to the plain ramen noodles. For an additional $ 1 each, you can add on pork cheese, sausage, spam (others I forgot?). Plus you just unlimited self-​serve kimchi and daichon radish on the side.
Sure you can buy a $ 0.99 Shin Ramen at a market, but add (single portions) of all the additions, and you’ll find yourself paying around the more than Teum Sae Ramen.
In conclusion, for great tasting Korean-​style ramen outside the home, try Teum Sae Ramen.

Korean style ramen. It’s a chain from Korea and supposedly the best ramen outside of Japan… here’s a brief history.
Well, I went last night and it’s not exactly the best ramen I’ve had. It’s the packaged ones they sell at the grocery store except it’s about $ 6.00/bowl. Hmm… anyways, they are known for their spicy Ppalgaedduk ramen. When I say spicy… I mean spiiiicy. The ramen comes with rice cakes and green onions then you can add other ingredients like… cheese, sausage, spam, etc. to put in it. They also have a non spicy miso flavored broth for those who are afraid of the spicy monster served here. The tuna kimbap ($ 4.50) was not very good either. They brought it out when we were pretty much done with our bowl of ramen.
A little more info about this place… it’s self serve. You order at the counter and take your own utensils, napkins, water, kimchi and yellow daikon radish to a table of your choice. I’m not too crazy about places like these. The employees were nice at least. The décor… well…it’s not much to look at. The walls are bare and look kinda ghetto. They offer free wifi here which is cool except I don’t see myself coming here with a laptop to use the internet. I don’t think I’ll be going back anytime soon until they get it together.