Piggy's Restaurant

If you ask me, I think they should have made this restaurant's english name the direct translation of it's korean name, "Piggy Piggy". Would sound a lot cuter than just piggy's. Anyhow, I suppose the only reason I planned a visit here was because of the cool restaurant name.

I liked how they had a variety of combos to choose from. Basically you pick a main dish from a list, one appetizer (of the 2), and either 4 bottles of beer or 1 bottle of soju. Since the restaurant's called Piggy, clearly we had to try the pigs! My friend and I decided to go for the Piggy's soju combo C. We chose the thin sliced pork belly, with steamed egg bowl, and 4 bottles of beer. All for a total of $34.95, pretty good deal if you ask me.

They gave us quite a lot of side dishes, which I liked. But none seemed to be the usual ones you get at other korean restaurants. When I first saw this dish of onions, I was confused thinking we eat it straight up.

(Wasn't until later I realized it was probably given to add in to your pork belly and lettuce wrap.)
Now look at this dish, doesn't it look interesting and different?

Not gonna lie, even after tasting it I still couldnt figure out what I just ate.
The kimchi was pretty spicy on it's own. The dish on the right is spicy lettuce. And the small dish at the top is super spicy squid. (I couldn't tell if it was raw or cooked) lol

You have the option of bbq-ing the kimchi as well, added a bit of crisp to it and less cold.

And here is the pork belly, look at all that fat!

The waitress rarely knew/spoke any english so we had a hard time figuring out how we were supposed to eat our meal. But within time we figured out we were supposed to wrap the pork belly into the given lettuce. (I even messaged my korean friend to confirm, just because I didn't want to look like a retard in the restaurant.)

The pork belly was so crispy. I normally don't like bacon, but I enjoyed this meal, although it was a bit of too much 'bacon'. My friend kept saying I ruined his love for bacon since we probably each had roughly 10 pieces on our own.
The egg soup was really good. Smooth and soft egg texture, tasting not too salty too.

We also ordered "Bi Bim Naeng Myeon" to share. ($9.95) On the menu it stated that it's sweet potato vermicelli noodles topped with marinated raw fish in spicy sauce. by stating "sweet potato vermicelli", somehow we were hoping that it would be the korean 'glass noodles' (chap cheh), but to our disappointment it was this really thin and springy white noodles which were hard to cut off (or should I say the noodles were red since it was intensely covered in hot sauce, nothing looked non-red). I thought this dish was a bit too spicy for my taste buds. Another funny thing was there were pieces of meat, but it was crunchy. Didn't taste anything close to fish, but because the color was so red, we couldn't figure out what meat we were eating. Just as a side note, the noodles were cold; this wasn't a hot dish. I personally didn't enjoy this dish too much.

Food: Pretty good
Service: Alright
Price: Average
Atmosphere/Decoration: Nothing special, but the restaurant is quite big compared to the typical korean restaurants down yonge and finch. I do have to comment that my clothes smelled SO korean after i left. I personally dislike the strong smell of korean food on my clothes and hair, not to mention this place had bbq grills at each table.
Overall: I enjoyed my visit, although the pork belly was a bit too overwhelming for 2 people to eat. Would have been a better idea to go with a bigger group; a few friends snacking with beer. If you're not familiar with eating korean food, i would suggest coming with a korean friend, that way you wont look confused or not know what to order. I would recommend coming to this restaurant as I wouldn't mind coming back myself.

Piggy's Restaurant
5 Glen Cameron Rd, Thornhill