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There’s a lovely Korean grocery store just north of Yonge and Steeles called Galleria.  In addition to the usual groceries, housewares, and ready-to-eat food, it also features a bakery and a small food court.

There are a handful of wall shop restaurants serving a variety of Korean and Japanese dishes.  I didn’t recognize many, perhaps indicating my unfamiliarity with “real” Korean food.  I went at lunch and there were many Koreans there: families, young people hanging out, even a large group of business people!

I went with something my friend raved about from South Korea, Pork Bone Soup:

Ordering is done at a central cashier, and you submit the receipt to the appropriate restaurant.  My food was ready in short order:

and it came with plenty of sides:

The soup is rich, and hot (I like spicy, but I’m not at a very high level).  Considering all the sides, six dollars is a quite reasonable.  I’m lazy though, and getting the meat off all the bones was a pain in the butt!  :)  I enjoyed mixing the rice with the broth at the end.

I’m looking forward to going back to try some of the dishes.  I’ve never seen any of them at a regular Korean restaurant, I’m quite excited.  It’s a bit out of the way, so it’ll have to wait until spring.

I noticed one other novelty (to me).  It’s common for Asian food court restaurants to freely offer water or tea, in styrofoam cups, to patrons.  Galleria’s food court modernizes the notion with reusable stainless steel cups that are held in an ultraviolet chamber after washing.  It’s in the upper left of the picture below, and you can see the UV bath casting its signature tinge.