The Famous 9292 Korean BBQ Restaurant

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Has anyone ever heard of the amazing restaurant called 9292 Korean BBQ restaurant? This restaurant is one of my favorites to go to. They have a lot of different choices on the menu. The location is not very far, and also different kinds of people go and eat there. This restaurant is placed in front on Honda Gwinnet in a brown building shopping center in Duluth Georgia. I remember the first time I went; I was surprised by seeing people from everywhere in one restaurant. The restaurant is also well organized and it looked clean to me when I went. 9292 Korean BBQ is truly a good place and it is about grilling meat, beef, pork, or chicken. One fun fact is that it is a unique way on how the food is served or cooked. If you have not gone, trust me, you are missing out big time. It was a Sunday afternoon and my friend called me to invite me to eat, and I said “Okay, let’s go.”. She sent me the address and I replied “I’ve never tried Korean food.” so she said “Don’t worry, it’s really good,” so I just went. After that, we arrived and we walked in, and the place was so calm and quiet and a little dark. I said to myself “Well, this is nice.”. Once you walk in, you see a big sign that says 9292 BBQ. That is the first thing that caught my attention because it just glows and stands out. I quickly asked what the meaning was of the 9292, he replied “In Korean, it sounds like “grill.”. I stayed quite for a bit and tried to figure it out and found it on google translate. There were also televisions hanged on walls all around the restaurant with K-Pop playing. I also saw different kinds of people, which was surprising to me. 

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There were people from every culture, and we can also say almost every race. I didn’t think of this place being so full and busy. After waiting 30 minutes, we finally got a table and I see a little pot in the middle of the table. All of a sudden, five different servers came to my table and filled the table up with plates and I was confused while my friends were very excited. While having the menu in front of me, I thought I was never going to pick something. All I see on the menu is meat, shrimps, beef and a lot more. After all that, My friend decided to order the “9292 D Combo” which contained Beef Brisket, Rib Eye, Fresh Beef Short Rib, Marinated Beef Short Rib, Hand Rub Seasoned Steak, Prime Short Rib, Shrimp with Butter and Salt, Short Rib, and finally Bulgogi (“menu website”). Everything she picked was actually good. Through the first ten minutes there, I was just wondering to myself about the pot in the middle of the table. I also saw one very interesting button against the wall of each table. The button was to call the server for more water, meat, or anything you needed. We don’t really need the button just because the service is wonderful.Finally, we see the server come with all the meat and bacon we ordered and he cooked the food there. When the server was making the food in front of us, I wanted to ask him a couple of questions so bad. I finally had the nerve to ask him my first question which was “How is your experience working here?” He then answered, “Well, I have a year working, and it’s an amazing place to be at.” (Bryan) When he told me that, I said to myself “Wow, that is good that he speaks well about this restaurant.”. The impressing thing about his restaurant must be all the vegetables they give out and the only organic thing that is given is called “Sky Valley Sauce.”. In the middle of the table there is a little circle thing that is separated into 3 parts and then the charcoal and fire in the middle of that. One side is filled with egg and it cooks. The other side is filled with sprouts beans which is my favorite and with mushrooms. The other side is filled with corn and cheese which is also my favorite. I see the table with different kind of food and vegetables. My friends tell me to try one by one. I try one by one and when I finish trying one by one, I stay quiet for a moment and then say “Wow, this food is amazing.”. When I see the server cook all the meat, I stay surprised. When some meat was done, we would just serve ourselves and the server would keep putting more meat to cook. I would ask the server for more sprout beans, because I would be the only one to eat them. Everything in this restaurant is just amazing and tasty. I think I would never get tired of this place. After all the food was gone, the server brought us a nice cold popsicle. That was a very good popsicle. It was soft and cold and the texture to it was wonderful. The taste it had was very good also, I think it was melon flavor. During the process of the server attending us, I wanted to have a little interview with him he was very busy. I decided to go in a different day and have an interview with the manager. The manager name was Bryan, he was very excited that I was writing about his restaurant. I introduced myself to him and he was so ready for the questions I had for him. I first asked, “How often does your restaurant get busy?”, he then replied “Well, it gets busy Monday through Thursday during lunch time and Friday through Sunday during dinner time,” (Manager Bryan). That was a very good response because it makes it seems that the restaurant is a good place, and everyone likes it. I also questioned him about the food and product. He told me that the food was fresh and it never rotten, and it was also well organized in the fridge and freezer. He talks so good about the restaurant and the way he expresses himself was wonderful. 9292 Korean 

9292 Korean BBQ is an honest restaurant because everything on their menu is true and there is noting that is being fraud like one of the articles. For example, in the article titled “Farm to Fable,” says that “Farm-to-fable defrauds a few different people. First, it defrauds the customers, who pay more for local, sustainable, organic produce.” (Johnson 193). 9292 Korean BBQ doesn’t lie to nobody and everything in the menu even the prices are good and worth it. One good and surprising thing about this restaurant, is that there is no junk food at all. Just like the article titled “How Junk Food Can End Obesity” says that junk food is not good and “The health concerns raised about processing itself- rather than the amount of fat and problem carbs in any given dish- are not, by and large, related to weight gain or obesity.” (Freedman 146). This was just a wonderful experience of having dinner on a Sunday. I was very satisfied about everything. For example, about the food, service, the manners everybody have, and many more things. Everyone was happy and having a good time. I never saw a person with a grumpy face, everyone had a big nice smile.