Yuppdduk

Oh dear, it was so spicy! Wouldn’t have made it through the meal if it weren’t for the seaweed rice balls. All in all, tasted great!

It was so spicy but so delicious!
If you like Korean food I recommend you this restaurant!

Didn’t order the ddeokbokki like everyone else, but the spicy chicken. Was SO lip-​burning spicy, but SO GOOD! We ordered it with the seaweed rice balls, and it went perfectly!
Dishes are HUGE! Definitely can feed 3 – 4 easily.

Beware of extreme spiciness at this place! If you’re not comfortable with extreme levels of spice, and I mean VERY comfortable, then this is not the place for you. If you still think you can handle it, then by all means, go ahead and try, but I’ve warned you!
Yupdduk is a Korean restaurant in North York that recently opened in the Yonge/​Finch area. They serve only a few dishes so far. It is a chain restaurant and there are a couple of locations in the U.S., including in New York and L.A.
I wanted to try this restaurant because it was new in the neighbourhood and I watched a YouTube video about this restaurant prior to trying it out. I generally like spicy food and I knew what I was getting into so there was a part of me that thought I could handle it. Boy, was I wrong!
I’m giving this a 2-​star in consideration of everything about this place, including environment, service and food. This place is still fairly new so it’s somewhat clean; however, the chairs and tables have splatters of sauce, so I can see this place getting run down pretty quickly.
The service there isn’t great. I mean, when you ask for help, they’ll come to you, but often you have to wave them down or walk up to the cash register. Also, considering that they serve such spicy food, they could at least give a better warning or ask if we’ve been there before. We also had to go up in person with the water jug asking for more water. The waiters don’t really check up on you to see how you’re doing, and it’s confusing regarding how to pay, so we ended up paying at the cash register. The good thing about this place is that they do provide several boxes of tissues lined up along their counter for you to take! We kept a box at our table.
We ordered the popular dish for two of us, which included a huge bowl of spicy sauce with vienna sausage, fish cakes, rice cakes, cabbage, and topped with mozzarella cheese. I think I ate maybe one of each of the above because the spice was just… that…deadly (to me at least).
I don’t see what the hype is about this place though. Yes, the flavours are decent, but it is essentially the same as any Korean spicy dish at other restaurants, except that it is 100x spicier. I feel like this place would do much better if the spice wasn’t so extreme. It’s hard to enjoy a dish when you’re struggling with each bite. I will not be returning here.
Oh, and the waitress did say that they could make it less spicy, but even the «less spicy» was deadly. I don’t even want to imagine what the regular spice is like! We even took home more than half of the dish and tried to water is down to make it less spicy, but that didn’t work either.

This place can be found just west of the main intersection yonge/​finch.
My friend and I ordered the regular deokbokki with cheese and Vienna sausage. It took a while for our dish to come out but well worth the wait. The food is very spicy but also has flavor behind it. Portions are huge, it could feed 3 – 4 people easily. they gave us a generous serving of mozzarella cheese (parts of the cheese was crunchy like it was pan fried before). The sausage we thought was going to be regular cut up hotdogs but they’re like the tiny Vietnamese sausages.
Restaurant is very clean and staff seemed to be nice. Definitely a spot for students, not sure if they serve alcohol but would go great with their food.

Loved the ambience! Has very good spicy rice cake, so good my cheeks are feeling numb! All you spice lovers must try this place! My recommendation is to get the yupgi set! Wait for everything to be served before eating anything because you will (need) then to enjoy the food! Make sure you add cheese to your yupgi toppling or your yupgi odeng!