So Poong

only a little ramen，are you kidding me？if dont have，please tell me when I order

This is probably my new favorite restaurant ever. They have extremely delicious food, for a genuinely fantastic price (this is coming from a broke college student). The staff is extremely sweet and generous and you can tell it’s a family place. They also take venmo, cash and card! The decor is super cute and cozy, there are a few booths and everything is super clean. Genuinely 10/10. Also I highly recommend the Budae-Jjigae and Samgak Kimbap.☺️ There is parking right across the street.

The bibimbap with beef was good. Could use a little more sauce. The soup was very underwhelming. Definitely could live without it.
My friend had the spicy tofu soup. She said it was not bad either.
It gets the job done for a Korean food craving in college town. We arrived not that long before they close. Food was served fast and they didn’t immediately kick us out when they were closing. The owner let us finish the food and reminded us the time.

Go to spot in Ithaca for kimbap! I always get 2-3 togo. Have tried their spicy pork, beef and chicken. Their tteokbokki is also pretty good as well as their bibimbap. I've also tried their Sam gak kimbap and koma kimbap but I felt like I was eating mainly rice. So every time I've gone back I just go for the regular kimbap. It's a small but cozy restaurant with tables to eat in if you'd like.

Food was good for 3 of us. 4th person wasn't as happy, said their dish tasted like canned stew. I enjoyed my spicy soft tofu steel very much. Counter service was very friendly.

Great place for home cooked korean food with some serious authentic flavour! Got the Budae Stew which was loaded with ingredients

I love Korean food. Prepare it at home all the time. When I walked in I was greeted by a woman preparing an order that was ready to serve. After serving the previous guest she attempted to take my order where I asked for the Han Mari fried chicken, which was on the menu outside. She told me they didn’t have any chicken, which I assumed meant they ran out for the day, but actually meant they no longer sold the Korean fried chicken. Once she said this I was met with a man taking over for her at the register, but this time I asked for the Galbi Tang (traditional pork neck one soup, they sell it everywhere). He said they didn’t have that either, then what shocked me the most is he yelled “NEXT” while I was standing right in front of him and proceeded to take the next guests order despite the fact that I hadn’t even ordered yet. After patiently waiting for my turn again, I went up and ordered japchae and beef gimbap. My food was ready in about 10 minutes, but the buzzer didn’t even go off so the man had to yell my order in the store for me to know it was mine. The food was okay, didn’t have enough flavor for me, and the gimbap meat was a little dry and flavorless. I won’t be coming here again unless they treat customers with a little more respect.

So Poong opened in April 2018 to relatively little fanfare. Now, less than two months later, it has quickly become my favorite place in Collegetown and easily makes my top 3 in Ithaca because of their food quality, prices, and great service. Where else can you spend $7 and get an incredibly filling yet relatively healthy meal around here?

It serves some of Korea's most well-known comfort foods (that actually taste like what I'd get back home) with prices that can't be beat. $6 for a kimbap that is so filling that I just barely manage to get the last end piece down? Or $7 for ddukbokki with maybe a side of $3 Ggoma kimbap (mini-kimbap) would be a hefty meal for one or snack for two. Their $7 japchae, which I hesitatingly ordered with a side of rice (I've rarely had good japchae in the US), was amazing, too.