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Eat the World NYC review:
It has always been around here and there, but in recent years the pojangmacha-style Korean pub format seems to be taking over New York City's Korean food scene, especially in and around Murray Hill, Queens. Another new establishment, opened up earlier this year, is Chingunae Pocha, a bustling and friendly place that seems to get a good crowd. Sometimes many of these type of pubs do not get truly busy until close to midnight, but Chingunae seems to thread the line between dinner and late night drinking and might be full even if you show up at 8 or 9pm.

Part of this might be because their decent happy hour food specials, large format dishes best enjoyed with a group of at least four. Also make sure your group comes ready to drink soju, as they serve many varieties like any respectable pocha (short for pojangmacha) should. Korean drinking culture must involve surrounding yourself with good friends and good food. Actually the food needs to be good, but the friends can become good by the end of the night.

Having only a party of two for this meal, the options for a full feast were limited, but the stir-fried pork belly and squid ($35) was a great choice that provided for quite a bit of leftovers as well. Once the fire was on and our server mixed everything together, each bite was full of many textures and flavors, all brought together by the lovely spicy sauce.

Super pleased we came here.

Tried this Korean style bar or pojangmacha in Murray Hill section of queens. Ambience was loud when it got crowded towards midnight but when we got there early it was quiet. Food wasn’t bad at all and some of their signature dish included fried Spam. Tasty but bit salty. Then again we had one too many drinks to complain about. Overall, very good experience.

great service, cuisine and atmosphere

I was a little disappointed that this place is not like those tradition kbbq places where they grill the meat in front of you and like they don't have much beef options such as galbi or such... Mostly pork and chicken and seafood and stirfry style. But I have to say their stirfry pork belly was actually pretty good! They give you veggies and let you mix it in... And can also ask for rice to blend in with it making it taste like bibimbap. The pork belly is good though. Their drinks were decently priced as well. We ordered the seafood pancake but I was quite disappointed... It was really plain and not as crispy. However their tako wasabi (raw octopus) was super fresh and delicious! Must try it!!