Choga Korean Restaurant Overland Park, Kansas' Choga Korean Restaurant is the oldest Korean Restaurant in metropolitan Kansas City. I dined there regularly for several years, but prior to this review, I had not been to Choga for 2 or 3 years. I was encouraged to try Choga again, by a review in the October 9, 2008 Pitch magazine by Charles Feruzza. I have never met Charles, but feel like I know him after years of hearing his restaurant reviews on The Walt Bodine NPR radio show. The food at Choga was pretty good, perhaps a little better than I recall. I had a sweet and spicy octopus dish ($17.95) that I liked a lot. The meals come with the chef's choice of 6 side dishes and there were three kimchi, tofu, sprouts and a kind of scrambled eggs. They didn't have the crispy, tiny anchovies that I really liked when eating there years before. Most entrees run from $10-18, but a few special items run over $30. In the past, the servers at Choga brought the side dishes out right away. I liked that and wished that they still did. This time the side dishes came out with the entree. But I will give my server credit. He noticed that I ate all of the radish and cucumber kimchi right away and asked if I wanted more. With Chung's Rainbow Restaurant only a block away, it is hard to evaluate Choga without comparing the two restaurants. Choga has a better atmosphere and is open seven days a week. Chung's is a little less expensive and (in my opinion) has a little better food.
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