Chalon is a family restaurant, which means crying babies and whining children. The quiet atmosphere completely changed at 7:00. People started to flow into Chalon and there were 2 or 3 babies crying for at least half an hour. Outside a line of 20 people was growing longer by the minute.
Chalon provides quiet and slow jazz music and the lighting was bright.
Even though it said that Chalon was an authentic Japanese restaurant, you could order western and Korean food. The menu was separated into entrée’s, Korean, Japanese, Western and desserts and salad. There was also a separate children’s menu which they gave to my friend who they thought was a child but was actually 1 year older than me but just shorter.
The Japanese food was mainly you-don noodles; Korean was mainly rice and the western food was grilled meat. I ordered the Korean stone rice, which consists of rice, beef, vegetables (including Kim-chi), raw egg in a stone bowl, which was extraordinarily hot. Such a big bowl of food was only $48, which is quite cheap. I had to wait a minute or two before the food had become cool enough to actually eat. It tasted relatively excellent, and the Kim-chi provided a spicy savor to it. My companion had ordered ribs which also came with fries, potatoes and a drink or 3 different sorts of soup. This all cost him $68, which is a reasonable price. I, had a bit of it and the meat was very tender and very sweet as well which I think came from the HP sauce, I sucked all the sauce off my fingers as it was so good.
This restaurant had just enough space for a hundred people. There is a non-smoking and smoking section and the smoking section is smaller. In the top right hand corner there is a salad bar, soup bar and the grill. On the top left had corner there is drinks bar where all the drinks and desserts are made. On the right side of Chalon most of the tables are for four to five people and on the left the seat are for 2 people. The kitchen is located on the right side where there is a window where the waiters get the food. The style of the decorations was American, with pictures of food covering the walls.
The waiters/waitresses had good eyesight cause every time a hand was raised a waiter would be right next to you in a few seconds, but this was before 7:30. After this time there were so many people that it took at least 2 minutes for the waiters/waitresses to realize that I was raising my hand. They were wearing aprons with the logo of Chalon (a chef’s head) on the front pouch.
It took the chef’s 8 minutes to cook my food and 11 minutes for them to cook my companions. This wasn’t a long time but since we were hungry we looked at the entrees and lord were they expensive. $60 for 4 chicken wings! $50 for 4 small dumplings!
This seemed to be pricier than my main meal, so we decided not to order anything more.
When the receipt was coming, I thought that they were giving a book but it was actually where the receipt was, a bit too thick I thought.
Chalon is located in shop 23, 2/Floor and in Jusco. There are 5-6 buses which arrive there and you can go to the Tai Koo MTR station and exit at exit D1.
