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Iryewon Asian Fusion Restaurant
Categories: Restaurants Korean Restaurants Asian Fusion Korean, Asian Fusion [Edit]
100 Steeles Ave WUnit 13
Vaughan, ON L4J 2L1
(905) 731-0500
2 reviews for Iryewon Asian Fusion Restaurant
2 reviews in English
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Review from Johnny H.
Toronto, ON
5/9/2012
This a Koreanized Chinese food restaurant. Believe me when I tell you that many Koreans think this is an authentic Chinese food. They actually look for these foods when they go to real Chinese restaurants.
Jjamppong (spicy seafood soup with noodles), jjajangmyun (noodles with soybean paste and caramel sauce) and tangsuyuk (fried pork with sweet and sour sauce) are staples of Koreanized Chinese restaurants. Jjajangmyun is one of the most common foods that people enjoy in Korea. 90% of people go to such restaurants to eat those.
So how does this restaurant rank? Well, I've had better but it still is a decent place. I normally have jjamppong (I cannot stand the appearance of jjajangmyun...). It is spicy. Very spicy. The noodles taste actually good. All the spice and seafood flavors actually penetrate into the noodles, and you can taste them. Noodles have nice texture to them as well. Seafoods are rather underwhelming. They actually taste and feel like rubbers. There are mussels, squids and a shrimp thrown in the soup. The shrimp is not trimmed at all. They actually give you the whole shrimp with head and shell. The soup is delicious but deep inside there is an artificial feel.
Tables are quite large and there is enough space between tables to give privacy. Considering it is a tight place, this is quite surprising. Service is quick and servers are nice. The chair comfort is average at best.
Driving around the plaza can be dangerous since drivers tend to be reckless and uncaring. -
Review from Jennifer K.
Markham, ON
9/21/2010 9 photos
Iryewon Asian Fusion Restaurant is really a Korean Chinese restaurant.
This place is really busy as I arriving to a half full restaurant on a weekday for a late lunch and more and more people kept coming in even after I leave. Most of the patrons here are Koreans.
The menu consist of Northern Chinese dishes but with a Korean twist. There are English description on the menu.. but not on the Today's Special page which are all in Korean.. trying to figure out what is today special can be a challenge when one don't even know which is the Korean character for the day of the week.
Banchan is a little different than the usual Korean restaurant because aside from kimchi, there is this raw onion which I suppose to dip it in black bean sauce and eat that.. to give me the onion breath!
I decided on the Jjamppong ($7.99 special at $6.99) which is a spicy noodle soup with seafood flavoured with onions and chili oil. The broth is not too spicy though it looks really orange. The noodles are really good.. chewy and a little transparent looking I wish there are some more. There are tons of squid (they are quite tender), a big shrimp (not good, mashy texture), smalle shrimps and little mussels(the frozen type)
There are a lot of privacy since there are high partitions set up between the tables and there are quite a few private rooms for groups.
The service here is quick and friendly.
They accepts Visa and Mastercard.
