eatingnoodles wrote:THANK YOU! I will now be hitting up both Yeowoosai and Dancen in the next few months. Ever since I learned of fire chicken I've been dying to try it. I did successfully eat it at a place in San Francisco a year ago, but being in Milwaukee and having one Korean restaurant that does NOT serve buldak I've been SOL.
-Tom

Hey Tom, welcome to the forum! Hopefully you stick around and post some in the Milwaukee Thread for us! I think you'll find the food at Dancen to be more consistent, and likely the better fire chicken, but yeowoosai is also a great place with a good craft beer list. Get the cheesy donkastu at yeowoosai, it's weird but awesome. Also check out Gogi next to yeowoosai (same owners) which has my current favorite korean BBQ in the city. Cheers!

I can definitely add to that Milwaukee list in regards to Thai, Burgers, Italian & Latin.
Yes, I will be hitting up one of the 2 Korean places early April.
-Tom

Hey Tom, welcome to the forum! Hopefully you stick around and post some in the Milwaukee Thread for us! I think you'll find the food at Dancen to be more consistent, and likely the better fire chicken, but yeowoosai is also a great place with a good craft beer list. Get the cheesy donkastu at yeowoosai, it's weird but awesome. Also check out Gogi next to yeowoosai (same owners) which has my current favorite korean BBQ in the city. Cheers!

If you like Makgeolli (the cloudy, slightly effervescent fermented rice/wheat beverage), Yeowoosai's is really good.

Having visited Dancen for the first time last night, I will add these points to the discussion:

My wife and I were the only non-Korean-Americans in the place, and we were made to feel very welcome.

The space is very casual, really a bar with great food to share.

The Fire Chicken was terrific, very spicy and flavorful, right off the grill, skin on and a bit fatty but delicious. Every table in the house ordered this. It is a big plate of bird that runs about $12. Comes with shredded cabbage salad and side of pickled radish (both good).

The Spicy Pork Ribs were another story. Flavor was great, but the thin slices of meat contained dozens of very thin shards of bones. I do not know if you are supposed to eat the bone fragments or spit them out, but we both found this dish very off putting. Confirm boneless-ness of dishes.

A very good cheese and onion omelette arrives with drinks, for free. Yum.

Food is not up to the standard of the best Korean in town (which is Gogi, IMHO), but this is a different type of venue and experience.

I finally visited Dancen on 5/10/2014. Fire chicken was out of this world.