Ginseng 3

No star for this place, it say’s «all you can eat Korean BBQ». But they tell u what u can eat n only 1 short ribs or beef per person. So how’s it all u can but u can’t have more of what u want??? Stay away from this place. Go off the strip tofu hut is way much better!!! Had to give 1 star to leave a review otherwise NO STAR for this place

Took like an hour to find this hidden gem. On the fifth floor, but whatever. Server was really nice and the food didn’t take too long. I ordered the pork tofu stone pot, udon, and phở. Cool simple selection of Korean, Japanese, and Chinese options. This is probably a family business, Korean owned. Needless to say, the price is average and affordable. :)

Meh.
Overpriced but typical vegas.
Service was somewhat slow for not being busy.
Phở was so/​so. But it had no mint! Wtf?! The spring rolls didn’t have mint either, wait soooo not what I was expecting.
$ 20 phở I’m not impressed!!!
Never agaib

Was craving korean food, so wandered lost at the Quad until I finally found it (You have to take the escalators that are just to the left of the hotel check-​in desk). Restaurant décor is entirely unmemorable.
Was promptly greeted, menu’d, watered. I knew what I wanted — Kimchee stew made with beef… but I guess they pre-​make the broth with pork, so I couldn’t modify it. Bummer, but i’ll roll with it.
Banchan was rather late in coming out, the stew even later. When the stew finally made its appearance, it was mouth-​puckeringly SOUR. I know kimchee stew is inherently tart, but this tasted like they added vinegar to it. The broth was also rather thin, not rich, and just not special. Plenty of kimchee in the stew, but they skimped on the meat. Banchan was spot-​on though, well-​seasoned, perfectly pickled.
More expensive than I’m accustomed to, and less tasty, but will do in a pinch.

If you are reading this, you are probably drunk, you just lost a lot of money at the blackjack table, and it’s 3:00 am. Weird thing is, I asked two different people in the casino if there was a noodle restaurant it the casino, and neither one of them knew about this place. It’s upstairs and around the corner, which is enough of a description for you to realize it’s hard to find.
The food is nothing special. It’s just enough to keep you from being too hungover tomorrow. They make Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and Chinese food… but you and I both know that when you make such a wide range of different foods, there is no way you can make all of them well.
Open 24 hours, so you can come anytime. When we went, there was only one other table of customers and it was very quiet in there. Really, too quiet.

We ate here for a comp, just to check it out — Otherwise I would NEVER pay these prices for this food!
Soju is $ 16/​bottle — we didn’t have any, but GOTDAMN!
Soondubu is $ 13.99 — Hello Mr. Tofu for $ 8!
Obviously this place is on the Strip, at the Quad, blah blah, but I find these prices ridic!
Anyway, onto the food:
There’s no kids menu, so Hunnie Bunnie just had the Phở Tai ($ 10.99): This is actually great becauae she loves phở. The bowl was big and the flavor was GOOD. It comes garnished with sliced onions and green onions and a side of lime, cilantro, fresh jalapeños and bean sprouts.
Friend and I shared Spicy Squid with Vegetables ($ 21.99) and Spicy Pork Soondubu ($ 13.99):
The stir fried squid was extra spicy which was totally awesome and they didn’t seem TOO skimpy on the squid but there were TONS of veggies, including kimchi, onions, green onions, bell peppers and jalapeños in the mix.
The Soondubu came SKIMPY with BEEF! Yeah we ordered Pork but this is what we got. Ugh! It came with lots of broken up tofu which I HATE. I prefer larger clumps in my soup! The soup flavor was just aiight too!
Service was pretty MEH too.
P.S For these outrageous prices, they could afford better chopsticks than these stupid wooden ones you have to rip apart! I hate these kind!
Local friends please save your $$$ and eat some place else!

Might have been more stars but service brought it down at least one.
Food: Phở, sushi roll and veg fried rice. Phở was excellent. Sushi fresh and decent portion. Fried rice was really excellent.
Service: Place nearly empty and staff more intent on watching X games qualifying then changed to UFC fight. Really? If I wanted a sports bar, I’d have gone to one.
Was very confusing to find the location as The Quad is the most disorganized hotel layout I’ve ever seen (Find Verge tower and take that elevator).
I’d go for the food if you’re in the mood for Asian and don’t know what country to visit. They offer Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese and Chinese. Not cheap but not outrageous either. Don’t expect good service because it doesn’t exist.
Open 24 hours (or so the signage says).

It’s probably more like 2 – 3 stars because I will probably never CHOOSE to go back there unless I was in the same predicament as before but the one time I went, it was a 4 star experience. Why? We were starving, it was early in the morning or really late at night and not a lot of legit places were open on the strip. We were already at Imperial Palace, and all we wanted was Korean food. We wanted to go to a quiet place where we can talk without shouting. See how everything lines up?
We had really low expectations because the place looks like it’s having an identity crisis. Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, etc. and the name of the place is «Ginseng» which I’m sure the owners thought long and hard about coming up with something original. Anyway at that point we were wasted and just wanted something that wouldn’t make us sick.
I ordered the kimchi jigae and it was pretty bomb. Not the best one (that would be the one from Seongbukdong in LA) but it did the job. My compadres had bulgogi and bibimbap if I remember correctly and they were fine. We were in such a good mood we said something about how it was awesome we found a decent Korean place on the strip as if we were gonna come back soon. That was 2 years ago but yes, I’m actually glad I found this place because if I’m in a situation where I’m in Imperial Palace again and someone asks if I want a dollar menu spicy chicken sandwich from McDonald’s or something else, I know I have an option.

It’s a difficult thing giving Ginseng 3 a 3* rating — on one hand, there was phở a mere 2 minutes from my hotel, which is amazing since I had a hangover from 3 days of partying… and on the other — it was just a mediocre bowl of phở.
I will say — for $ 10.95, it was enough food to fill me up, but the broth was lacking in flavor and they didn’t provide any basil to put into the soup. There was maybe 1.5 oz of meat in my Phở Tai, which is on the low end of what I’m used to.
The service was good and my tea was kept filled the whole time.

If you order anything other than Korean food, you’ll be greatly disappointed. I don’t understand why they try to specialize in different cuisines and also offer a Vietnamese and Japanese menu. Their phở is not good at all and the broth is so bland. Btw, the server pronouces phở like «paw». Yes, my friends and I were completely thrown off whenever she said «paw». Learn how to pronounce it right if you’re trying to sell it to your customers! Their eggrolls were also not very good and tasted like they were taken from the freezer and heated up. As for the sushi? It didn’t taste fresh and was also probably just taken out of the fridge and transferred onto a platter before being served to us. The one thing that I did enjoy was the Korean spicy seafood soup. It was a pretty good portion and not too spicy.
Aside from most of the food they serve, one major thing that stinks about this place is the service. They had switched two of the phở dishes (or shall I say «paw») and gave my cousin the wrong phở bowl. They gave her the one with just steak when she had ordered the one with steak, brisket, and flank. She told the servers about this and they wanted to charge her an extra $ 4 to add the extra meat to her bowl! Unbelievable! They obviously did not know how to handle this problem very well.
I guess one good thing about this place is that they are open 24 hours, so if you want crappy food in the middle of the night and feel like over paying for it then this is the place to go!

It was ok… Nothing great. It did the job. On 3^rd floor of quad…24 hrs i think.

The restaurant was in our hotel and we wanted something quick so it was perfect. The service was ok and my crab roll was good but the avocado roll is to die for. My gf and I wished we would have just ordered 2 avocado rolls. It was definitely priced well!
I can’t stop thinking about the avocado roll.

Considering that this place is practically the only Korean/​Vietnamese restaurant walking distance within the strip, they have EVERY DAMN RIGHT to be expensive. All the other casino restaurants are doing it, so why not them? Hell, room service costs more at Caesar’s Palace because I once ordered salad and chicken soup and it came out to $ 60, not to mention that the noodle soups at Beijing Noodle No. 9 are priced at $ 16 with barely any noodles and flavor. So, with phở being at about $ 11-​$ 12 is actually reasonable. You’re saving gas and time from leaving the strip and the hassle of parking and possibly more waiting when you get there.
I’ve been here a couple times — once for Korean food and another time for phở. The food isn’t the best I’ve ever had, but this is Vegas. You can’t expect everything to taste good since every damn place on the strip is over-​hyped (except EOS). Quite frankly, I don’t remember what I ordered back then, but if I’m a returning visitor, their food was probably decent. Anyway, we ordered 2 bowls of phở tai. Phở comes out in a big ass bowl, and it’s piping hot. It definitely tastes like phở, but cleaner and healthier. Especially with that herbal taste in the broth. We wanted more sprouts, so we flagged a guy down and he was SUPER nice and gave us more. He even told us to let him know if we wanted anything else.
Anyway, SERVICE is A+, this restaurant is super CLEAN, and it’s nice and quiet. People who dine here actually have manners. From the couple times I’ve dined here, I never had a problem. Oh, for those who think Koreans get special service here, I’m Korean and I didn’t even speak Korean to get attention or service.

Looking for decent asian food around midnight on the strip. made the mistake of going to this place.
Food was average. price ok.
The practices of the owner (a lady in casual clothes) and the server (lady named hyo won, i think. not sure) was not exactly as clean as i expected it to be. Started with the server dropping cutlery on a table in the back which was directly visible to our table. She picked it up and put in back with the other clean ones.ugh.i was willing to let that slide, given the table supposedly is clean.
the owner and server was cleaning up the table beside us, clearing plates and all the owner wiped the table with a wet white cloth and didnt wipe it dry. I didnt see her or the server wash their hands either because when the owner put the wet cloth away, she was out right away which means she didnt have time to wash. Server too. out of the back right
qiping hands or anything.ughhh.
Considering it was 1140 at ngit they were super understaffed but surprisingly food didnt take too long to come out. Decent waiting time.
Lastly.the worst experience. and a complete no-​no for owners to do to restaurants—
I paid with my card. automatically noticed that there was no service charge included. Didnt want to charge the tip on the card and wanted to leave cash on the table for tip instead. but what did the rude owner do? Said out loud in a really loud voice in front of other restaurant patrons «EXCUSE ME! EXCUSE ME! YOU DID NOT LEAVE A TIP! SERVICE CHARGE IS NOT INCLUDED HERE!»
the nerve! I told her we were gonna lrave cash for the tip. which we already had on the table.
TO THE OWNER: DO NOT EMBARRASS PATRONS LIKE THAT. HAVE YOU NOT HEARD OF CHAGED BILL WITH CASH LEFT FOR TIP. IN THE FIRST PLACE, IF YOUR SERVICE IS GOOD YOU SHOULDNT BE WORRIED IF PEOPLE ARE GONNA LEAVE TIPS OR NOT. BUT I GUESS SINCE IT IS NOT GOOD-​AS WE HAVE EXPERIENCED, THEN YOU SHOULD BE WORRIED. YOU DID NOT EVEN DESERVE TO BE TIPPED.
it was a mistake to give this place a chance despite all the negative reviews. NOT WORTH IT. initially i thought the revieqs were just because the pips who did reviews were drunk but apparently, drunk or not YOU KNOW BAD SERVICE (FROM THE OWNER) WHEN YOU GET IT.

I went here at 5 am in the morning after EDC. It was pretty good, I’m surprised the reviews here aren’t that great. For a cheap Chinese restaurant, this is the place to go. They serve all different kinds of Asian cuisine, from Chinese to Japanese to Korean.
I ordered the chicken fried rice, my friend got the beef and broccoli and my other friend ordered phở. My portions were huge and hard to finish. It was delicious, and one of the better fried rice dishes I’ve had. The rice actually tasted fresh and there wasn’t too much sauce mixed in. Both of my friends said their dishes tasted really good as well.
The price isn’t bad for the portions you get, and the food is pretty good. The service is okay. There is one woman doing everything in the front, but she does a pretty good job. We didn’t wait long to get a refill or the check.

Pros: It’s open 24 hours
It serves relatively good phở
It’s right upstairs in our usual Vegas hotel.
It’s almost never busy
Cons: It’s a big expensive (but it’s Vegas… it’s actually decently priced for Vegas)
The service is way iffy.
It’s almost never busy?
I’ve been here twice, about 3 years apart. The first time was with a friend after we got impatient waiting for the more rowdy of our group to make it to dinner. We each had an entrée, and I honestly can’t remember what it was. Not because I was under any sort of influence, it was simply forgettable food. I’m pretty sure I only drank water, and still paid about $ 12. I was unimpressed, but grateful there was somewhere easy to grab some food.
My second experience was better. At 2am, after a night of clubbing, few things feel better than a big bowl of phở. BF and I split a basic order of the miracle soup and some spring rolls. Both were very good and hit the spot. I’m not saying it’s as good as some local asian restaurants, but it did the trick.
I could swear it was the same waitress both times. She said barely a word, stopped by only as often as she needed to, and left us to eat in peace.
This is definitely not a «when in Vegas, go to…» kind of place. But it’s great for a desperate midnight food run, especially as hangover prevention!

Went there for dinner with 8 more others and ordered 10 different dishes. But when then cheque came… There was extra charge… Charged 11 dishes…
Be careful when eating there. Checked with the boss and she even counted the dishes and confirmed the bill was still correct… But we insisted it was wrong an she then accepted it…
The receipt was not properly written and very vague…
Be careful!!!
Food was not that good too, kimchi stew was too sour, waited phở for 45 mins to come out.

This was definitely a case where the wide array of Unilocal reviews averages out to a pretty realistic representation of the experience you can expect. Of course when you’re wandering through the Asian-​themed Imperial Palace, it’s completely reasonable to start craving Asian food — phở, naeng myun, gyoza, orange chicken, soon dubu… this place has a more or less all-​encompassing menu of late-​night Asian (and pseudo-​Asian) comfort food.
I was really tempted to get japchae (one of my favorite noodle dishes!) but then I spotted the bibim naeng myun (spicy cold noodles) and just had to get it. It had been so long since my last bowl of cold chewy buckwheat noodles drenched in a gochujang-​based sauce and topped with Asian pear, beef, and a boiled egg. The bibim naeng myun here was fiery red but not very spicy. I had to ask for more gochujang. It helped. Pretty overpriced at $ 12+ but not bad.
M was really craving phở so he ordered the phở tai (Vietnamese beef noodle soup with sliced beef). The broth was okay, pretty comparable to the Korean-​owned phở places here in LA. Nothing that a dollop of hoisin sauce and a squeeze of lime couldn’t improve.
The dining area was reminiscent of BCD Tofu House (the newly remodeled one off Wilshire in LA) and the staff was largely Korean. Having observed that, I’d recommend going with a Korean dish from their extensive menu (naeng myun, soon dubu, kimchi chigae, etc.). Relatively more authentic. It’s situated off the beaten path, up a few escalators, but if you’re hungry late at night and craving the Asian persuasion, check this place out. It’s A-​OK!

We ordered the spicy pork, which was sweet, tough and very greasy. The fried dumplings were regrettable although not a complete failure as the spicy pork.
I asked the server if what she gave us was actually spicy pork since it didn’t even have a hint of spiciness. She said it was, and that the degree of spiciness depends on the chef working that day. Meh

Asian food is pretty pricey here, but that’s how it is along the strip. You won’t be able to find cheap Asian food unless you go to Chinatown (not too far of a drive).
–Salmon Bento Box: $ 16.99 not worth it, comes with 4 pieces of California rolls, tempura, rice, and salad but everything tasted mediocre.
–Tofu Soup w/​Seafood: $ 12.99 for a bowl and comes with a small bowl of rice. It was delicious over rice even though I ordered it to be mild. I shared it with 3 other people which came out to be a small bowl for each of us.
–Bibimbap w/​Kalbi: Oh so delicious! $ 15.99 is a little bit on the pricey side but it’s vegas. The kalbi was cut into little squares which made it perfect to eat with the rice.
–Potato Noodle: I would skip this. I kept choking on the noodles cause it slides down my throat and it was very chewy. There was also barely any taste.
–Exotic Bomba dessert: All their desserts weren’t even asian! but this looked cool on the dessert menu with 3 diff. flavored sorbets covered in white chocolate. It was good, but not worth $ 8. They also don’t price their dessert menu, so you may want to ask for the price before you order.
I didn’t bother ordering any Chinese dishes, they were wayyy too overpriced for Chinese food. I also assumed their sushi wouldn’t be all that great either, there’s no visible sushi chef. I also think that if they’re going to charge everyone 18% gratuity, they should at least state it on the menu.