Yang San Park is a Korean barbeque joint with a difference: very good service! The effective all-male floor team quickly seats us. The short menu has a good cross-section of Korean barbeque favourites, but if you’re dining as a couple, consider ordering the Combination Set ($32/person). As we settle in with a bottle of Kooksoondang Korean Rice Wine ($13) a generous array of banchan (side dishes) are peppered onto our table. There’s the expected kimchi, a ball of sweet, yellow mash, tart pickled onions, and a lovely layered square of chilli pickled cabbage. A glowing red pot of coals are delivered from the restaurant’s central furnace, and a variety of meat plates arrive – pork belly, ox tongue, thin skirt, marinated pork rib, chicken and beef rib. Before we’ve even thought about what to cook first, the floor team get pork belly slices onto the metal plate. With very few words exchanged, we work out that when the rotating series of staff move pieces to the ...read more
