P & Y Cafe

busy.  i like the limited menu.  i like the specialization with koreans take on our food.   the spicy,sour, garlic fried chicken was a very good treat and i even enjoyed the mixed vegetables that were mixed in the sauce.  the jajangmyeon was good as well.  A very enjoyable and different than the normal korean restaurant meal.  Also very affordable (18 for both dishes).  Next test is the bear wings place on the other side of h-mart.

Disclaimer:  I am not well versed in Asian food.

Having said that, there is something peculiar about a restaurant that serves scissors with your meal.  My husband says this practice is fairly common in Asian restaurants, but it was my first time experiencing it.  Apparently, the noodles in most of the dishes are so long that you need scissors to cut them.  I found out first hand that you do, indeed, need scissors to cut the noodles while sampling my husband's vermicelli.  Who knew?

I ordered the fried shrimp with sweet and sour sauce.  The entree portion was huge and the shrimp was hand battered and drenched in sweet and sour sauce.  At first, the shrimp was wonderful, but as the dish cooled off the batter on the shrimp became soggy and less than appetizing.  All-in-all, I wasn't overly impressed.

AS I walked into P and Y with my mother, sister, and wife, the first question that came up was, "is this a Chinese restaurant or a Korean?"  I want to say they are advertising as a Chinese restaurant, but the menu had Korean letters on it.  Which leads to a more complicated question is Jajangmyeon Chinese or Korean?  So, the answer is "I don't know" and "both".  Apparently it is served in Korean Chinese restaurants in Korea.  Don't bother about the spelling, don't bother about what kind of food it is, and look it up on wiki for more details.  For those not familiar, the closest food I could associate it with is pad thai.  The sauce itself is from a dark soy bean paste and the consistency is like gravy.  So kind of a soy sauce gravy thing with onions and pork.  If the description doesn't not make it sound tasty, know that billions of asians think it is.  So we had the Jajangmyeon, some chap chae (a Korean dish, I think), and some sweet and sour shrimp.  The food was crazy fresh and tasty.  I couldn't have made it better at home.  Service can be a little unresponsive, but I don't mind getting a little assertive in Korean restaurants anyhow.  Probably the one complaint is that the menu is limited.  In P and Y's quest for an identity, they bounce between Chinese take out and some Korean.  The traditional Korean dishes that you might want, like soups are not on the menu.  But at least when I get a craving for (jaw jawng mee-yawn), I know where to go.  Thanks to the Yelpers who put this on my radar too.