Baton Rouge finally gets a Korean restaurant and it sadly has issues

Yerin Korean Grill opened where the China One was located on Siegen (around the corner from Total Wine).

A group of us tried to go a few weeks ago and when we walked in we were told it was over an hour wait for food and the place was pretty packed. No worries, we would try again later.

Well fast forward to this Friday and I placed a large to-go order for the group. Couldn't find a phone number for the place and finally found a number online. Turned out to be the owner's cell phone, which they were wondering how I got this number.

Placed order and was told 30 minutes. Picked my buddy up on the way and we showed up on time for the food order. The restaurant still has all the old China One decor up and there were two people eating in the restaurant. We walk up to get our food and we are told it's not ready. One bag is sitting on the counter and they are working on the rest of it. So we wait another 20 minutes for the food. There is only one person working in the kitchen and one person working the register. Huge issue with getting food out on time.

We get the food and go back to his house to eat with our wives. The food was just mostly disappointing.

Bibimbap - bland

Yangyum Chicken - chicken wings in sauce, steamed due to wait and soggy

kimchi pancake - probably the best thing

fried dumplings - tasted like costco dumplings, soggy

kimchi stew - this was so spicy my friend couldn't eat it, and he likes very spicy foods. I tried it because so do I, and it was so hot there's no way I could eat a bowl of it. Funny enough it was the same spice level as the bibimbap, which was bland.

So I don't know what to say about this place but based on our experience I can't see them being around for long. Sucks because I love Korean food but this just has too many problems.