Bobooya

Update 2022: Restaurant has closed and reopend as Katsuya

Dec 21, 2020

Bobooya is running a 50% off selected menu items this week! We picked up quite a bit of food for a total of $49 (and tax) and most of it was sealed which helped keep it fresher for a while. 

First up, the Boodaejigae (Army Stew)

 

Two containers of soup, instructions and a full package of everything needed to make this:

A ton of different ingredients, but no tofu or rice cakes (as pictured on the menu). There was a lot of processed meat with spam, bacon, sausage and canned ham that was all mixed together with gojuchang sauce to form the base of the soup. While it was rather spicy with just one container of soup, it got less spicy with the extra container of soup. Overall, it was a really hearty winter meal and very yummy! The noodles were an excellent addition as well. 

 

Rice Ball

I wasn't sure what to expect when I saw rice ball on the menu (regular price was $9), but we thought we would give it a try. It turns out it comes with seaweed, lettuce, and some mashed pickled vegetables. It was pretty tasty overall, but I think there were better items on the menu.

 

Spicy Buckwheat Noodles (cold) $15

Very colourful dish with a good amount of spiciness without being too spicy. It had a tasty refreshing mix of cabbage, carrots, onions, green onions and chilled buckwheat noodles topped with a hard boiled egg and sesame seeds - it also had a slightly minty flavour? (Not sure how that happened)

Garlic Bossam

Super yummy (a tried and true favourite at Bobooya!)

Dec 12, 2020

Stir Fry Pork Belly and BBQ Bossam Bento Box

The stir fry pork belly was actually really spicy (but it was a tasty spicy) and it came with rice cake. 

Nov 28, 2020

We called in advance to place our orders for the $9.99 bento boxes

Jokbal bento and BBQ bossam

The BBQ bossam bento had so much sauce this time, we were able to eat some of the jokbal with sauce too. 

Large Bossam meal

Once we opened the container, it seemed like there was a lot less meat than the jokbal (but the bossam didn't have any bones to push the meat to the top of the container). It was still a big portion and very yummy, but the container was definitely too big. 

Nov 13, 2020

With my 50% off Ubereats Code, we decided to try the large jockbal dinner

$39.60 for the large jockbal and two sealed containers with side dishes

The large container of jokbal came with leaf lettuce, onions, green onions, gojuchang (really yummy). Most of the good meat was on top and the bottom was mostly bone and the really fatty parts of the pig's foot (which wasn't that easy to wrap with a lettuce leaf). Flavourwise, it was pretty good and I would order their large meals again with all the sides.

Lots of Korean side dishes (banchan): the napa and radish kimchi was savoury, delicious and not too spicy 

BBQ Bossam Lunch Bento $17.90

Good bossam, but it would have been even better if the meat was more tender, but the bbq sauce was sweet and yummy and each piece was flavoured with it. The side dishes were different this time with radish instead of the dried fish, but it still really good and it came with a small budae jjigae (army stew) soup.

Nov 7, 2020

On one of the advertising papers for Katsuya, we noticed that they opened a sister restaurant for Korean BBQ called Bobooya and they were selling lunch bento boxes for $9.99 from 12pm - 5pm and also offering 30% off their regular menu with cash payment. 

$9.99 Bento boxes with Spicy Jokbal, BBQ Bossam and regular Jokbal (not part of 30% off)

We haven't tried any of these before, but I've watched enough Korean dramas and random foodie shows to know what they were: jokbal is braised pig hocks/trotters and bossam is braised (or boiled) pork belly. 

The jokbal could only be ordered after 3pm - so we waited until then to order both spicy and non-spicy versions. 

The spicy jokbal was really spicy with lots of sauce and really yummy pork trotter meat (which was a little fatty and gummy with more of the fatty skin than lean meat) and the bento box also came with spicy rice cakes, dried fish, dried squid, kimchi radish and kimchi cabbage and rice. Lots of food with these bento boxes! 

The non-spicy jokbal had lots of fatty meat by itself but didn't have a lot of flavour (especially after eating the spicy version), but it did taste better with the gojuchang sauce on the side and I think it would have been even better with lettuce, but there were only a few leaves under the meat. 

The BBQ Bossam was REALLY good with a delicious bbq sauce that was sweet and tasty. The bossam was a good combination of fatty and lean pork shoulder with more lean meat, but the meat was pretty tender overall and very yummy! 

Website: https://bobooya.ca/