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It was so crispy that when you cut it, it came with sound effects. 🤣. Yet not oily or too salty. Totally yums. Big portion, 3 could share

Tender beef, that contrary to reviews is not too fatty. I thought the portion was perfectly sized. They give you tea to pour in to the rice crispies

The Beef Short Rib pot rice was served with strips of tender and flavourful beef.

The Beef Short Rib is the most popular dish here and is totally a must have here at Sagye.

The food here at Sagye all looks damn good on social media, especially their sotbab(korean pot rice).

Sagye appears too many times on my Instagram feed for me to keep ignoring and I finally gave in to give it a try.

No reservations, walk in only. And dining only 90mins. Which is necessary due to the regular long queues during dinner time.

After food arrives, mix it real well and scoop out the food unto the a seperate plate to eat off from.

Leave the "chao ta" rice at the bottom for later after your meal and inform the waiter to top up with barley water. Cover it and wait a few minutes before drinking this nurungji "soup" which is machiam like a porridge.

The food here at Sagye all looks damn good on social media, especially their sotbab(korean pot rice).

Sagye appears too many times on my Instagram feed for me to keep ignoring and I finally gave in to give it a try.

No reservations, walk in only. And dining only 90mins. Which is necessary due to the regular long queues during dinner time.

The Kurobuta Pork Pot Rice was flavourful. Pork was tender and fatty. After food arrives, mix it real well and scoop out the food unto the a seperate plate to eat off from.

Leave the "chao ta" rice at the bottom for later after your meal and inform the waiter to top up with barley water. Cover it and wait a few minutes before drinking this nurungji "soup" which is machiam like a porridge.

Sagye not only serves up their Signature Korean Pot Rice & Bbq, they also serves up some rather good Korean dishes such as KFC(Korean Fried Chicken), Soups and Saviury Pancakes.

The Seafood Pancake was damn excellent, it was crispy and the Seafood was fresh. A must have in my opinion

The kurobuta is well cooked but this steaming nonsense really doesn't do the cut enough justice, cos it's not a fatty cut.

Anyway the tomatoes were kinda pointless and as a whole this felt even more plain than the beef one, because it's just dry ingredients with rice, nothing ties it tgt

Again, quite good meat but passable execution. Or maybe this is authentic and it's alr a good execution that's faithful. I have no idea

Beef short ribs were good quality, tender with some chew. The chunks are too big to be a proper mixed rice tho. Crust at the bottom was slightly hard, hardly crispy.

As people have mentioned, it's very very mild. Still enough to eat on its own, but not much body at all. If the rice is not flavoured then the meats must be strongly flavoured, think unagi donabe.

The sauce is plain with nice aroma from herbs and chilies, but again there's no body, so you're only adjusting the saltiness of the rice

The soup added at the end of the meal frankly tastes abit weird

Overall good meat, ok execution but not superb at all and definitely not worth queueing

Seriously one of the best I've had. You can tell from the colour it's much stronger than most

The place is surprisingly not very packed on a Sunday dinner. No queue. Although you do have to order before you can enter, which is painful for indecisive people I guess. Not to brag but while people were still fumbling around with the menu I was in there within 10 seconds

Food:
Quite deep, for a simple seaweed soup

Really all on the very mild side. That's the whole theme of the restaurant

Opted for five grain rice. The stirfried spicy webfoot octopus was very tender, springy and fresh.
It come with soup of the day which is the seaweed soup and there were 4 banchans.
A bit on the pricier side but worth the try

Shared Set 30 (4 pax) between the 6 of us and we were all surprisingly satisfied with the portion. The set ($169) includes Beef Tripe Hotpot, Dough pieces for the hotpot, Webfoot Octopus Bossam, Steamed egg, a half-half Seafood and Kimchi pancake, as well as 4 bowls of rice.

Starting off with the refillable banchan, the offerings on the day were kimchi, beansprouts, cucumber, and cuttledish (i think...?). All of them were delicious, no need to say any further. There were also the non-refillable banchan which was japchae, some fried fish, and some tofu with kimchi-something. Didn't know what I was eating, but still delicious nonetheless.

For the mains, hotpot was soooo good and actually a very large portion. the server kindly offered to change the beef tripe to pork and octopus when we said we couldn't take beef, kudos to them for not just rejecting us! The hotpot was chockful of meat and veges and turns out we really loved the fresh octopus. The dough pieces also soaked in the flavours of the broth well. Our love for the octopus also carried over to the webfoot octopus bossam - we couldn't wow-ing over the tender octopus in the sweet-spicy sauce. Damn good! Finally, the steamed egg was just average but nicely complemented the other heavier dishes. Had a good time here and would return to try the other sets.