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Fusion Korea (Korean cuisine) $

20956 Homestead Rd, Cupertino, 95014 (Directions)

408.366.1367

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Cupertino restaurant offering a variety of budget minded Asian cuisines
Reviewer: Jason Total Reviews: 1040 Reviewed: 7/17/2007 Rating: 7.5 My photo gallery	Needed a quick lunch close to work and my coworker Mike brought me to Fusion Korea. It sits next to the bowling alley in an unkept parking lot. There's a lot of trash swirling around with long weeds poking through the asphalt. Kinda divey, kinda likey. Mike assured me this would be a cheap lunch and he hasn't let me down before. The toughest decision is which cuisine to stick to? Since this is a fusion house, they server Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. I looked around a bit and guessed since most of the customers were Korean, I'd stick to Korean cuisine. I ordered the lunch special B (Korean BBQ Pork) for $4.99. Yes, that's right, a korean bento box for nearly the price of Big Mac meal that sits across the parking lot. Foot traffic in the restaurant is steady with many people ordering sushi to go. You'll have to look at the menu for the selections but Fusion Korea offers many of the rolls you'd see at sushi houses (rainbow, rock n roll, sashimi, etc). Prices appear to be in range but portion sizes are definitely larger than the norm. A short time later, the bento boxes arrived and for the amount of food, I'm impressed. (if there's a proper name for Korean bento box, can someone shoot me an email, I have no idea what they are called). The bento box comes with 1 california roll that has the standard fake crab mayo and avocado mix. Very sweet and if it wasn't for the vinegary sour rice, I'd order it as an appetizer. Although the gyoza was served cold, the edges were still crunchy. Loved it. The glass noodles were oily and bland. I can't tell if this is jab chae? Jab Chae normally has more flavor and vegetables to it. Salad dressing was ehhh while the miso soup could have used more green onions for flavoring. The sides are definitely fillers to the meal and so far, the meal is just ok. The real treat is the Korean BBQ Pork (picture 9). Koreans always have their way with creating some of the tastiest marinades to take average meats to the next level. I've always found their marinades to be either sweet or hot damm spicy. Today's marinade was very sweet while the meat tender and in some areas extremely fatty. The pork didn't have as much of a burnt taste like the lovely bbq chicken. If it would have had more grill marks, I would be saying..."very nice, how much?". Overall, the meal was decent probably a 7. Service was quick as we were in and out of there in 20 minutes. When you remember the entire meal with tip will cost you under $7, you'll be thinking, damm that was cheap.

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Reviewer: wchane Total Reviews: 148 Reviewed: 8/13/2007 Rating: 6.5 My photo gallery	Fusion Korea should not be mixed up with Nara Sushi, they are apparently very different. 2 restaurants in the same location, sharing 1 menu if that makes any sense. Nara Sushi, or the sushi here is supposed to be decent. I was in a rush, and ended up with the tonkatsu bento. A few notable things : fusion of korean, japanese, and chinese could not possible turn out well. adding traditional as well as california style sushi on top of this is a bad idea stacked with another bad idea. I should of ran to the thai restaurant when I overheard the 'lion roll' would take 15 minutes to make...but I didn't. Service was great, and the water didn't taste funny. That was it, the bento came with one lousy looking california roll, an over fried gyoza, a pile of flavorless jap chae, a watered down salad, rice, miso soup with mushrooms and what I believe was the tonkatsu. The tonkatsu tasted like battered and fried cardboard. Not only did it taste as such it looked the part too. Batter being twice as thick as the flattened pork chop. Over fried, over drained, flavorless, chewy, and over priced at $5.25 or whatever they charged. not recommended.


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