Master Sun’s Hotpot

I ventured into Master Sun’s on a cold and wet Monday night and I’m glad I chose this place as the spice levels warmed me up nicely.
It seems that Master Sun’s is almost two restaurants in one. The first question when I arrived was not aimed at establishing how many people would be dining, but whether we wanted Korean food or Hot Pot? As I was keen to sample some Korean cuisine we were sat downstairs and were brought the Korean menu.
The restaurant was pretty deserted unfortunately which meant there was no real atmosphere to speak of. I would have personally stuck on some K-​Pop to get the mood up, but alas this did not materialise.
We ordered a bunch of starters to begin, including some excellent home made pot sticker style dumplings, which were filled with minced pork (delicious), some super spicy and vinegary kimchi and the Kim-​Chi Jeon, which is kinda like an omelet. All very good and plentiful.
For my main I opted for the spicy BBQ style Korean Pork. It packed a real heat and the meat was beautifully tender. This was served with rice and I felt it was an honest, nice but simple meal.
I’ve sampled Korean food on a number of occasions and while it is not my favourite Asian style, it has to be said that Master Sun’s does it well. The prices are reasonable, the restaurant modest and on the whole this is a great place to eat if your looking for laid back, no frills option.

So hidden away up in Cambridge street is this little gem of a place! Unless you were walking from Suchiehall Street to Cowcaddens I don’t think you would ever see or pass it!
We only stumbled across it because of Sarah A! And I’m so glad we did. The week before we went I spend days Googling the menus and looking at Unilocal reviews and images of the food! I really could keep my excitement in!
Firstly choose the Korean menu! I love Korean food so it would always be my first choice. We got a table upstairs on the balcony so off we went. I could believe the choices we had so we decided to share a load of food so please bear with!
*Kimchi both dished normal and the pan fried. The pan fried is a must!
*dumplings of course! Handmade and pan fried. Again another must!
*spicy Korean Chicken. The sauce for this dish was really good.
Now for mains Austen M and I shared between 2 dished the pork loin with cheese and the cheese ramen! Now you are probably think whit! Cheese! Well after a recent trip to Seoul we found that the Koreans love cheese on their food. Strange but amazing.
Master Suns is a very no frills authentic experience. If you are a fan of Asian food and are looking for good food then this place is for you! Do it!

We choose korean foods. It’s delicious. Spicy and hot. It is a good choice in winter!

Master Suns is the very essence of dive dining, everything was basic. White walls, wooden chairs and zero decoration. It didn’t bother me tho because this is the type of place you come for an authentic eastern café style experience, rather than somewhere to enjoy a western version of a cuisine with a glass of wine and a cocktail in beautiful surroundings.
The menu has a good but not overwhelming selection of Korean dishes to pick from. Everything sounded really interesting so it took us quite a while to decided what to go for. It’s worth pointing out that even though the menu is broken down into starters then a selection of mains, noodles, soups etc they just bring the dishes out when they’re ready — as is traditionally how food is served in Korean rather than in courses.
We tried a whole host of dishes, I have broken them down for you so that if you decided to visit you will know what I enjoyed most.
Mul Mando — Hand made dumplings with minced pork, chinese leaf and spring onion. These were so tasty the dumplings were large and packed with flavourful stuffing.
Gun Mando — Pan fried Hand made dumplings with minced pork, chinese leaf and spring onion. These were exactly the same as the Mul Mando but had been coated I think in some kind of sugar so that when it was fried it had almost a crème brûlée style texture. Although I loved the Mul Mando I think I preferred these ever so slightly more.
Kim-​Chi Jeon — Pan fried Kimchi mixed in flour. This was definitely a stand out dish for me. These glorious little pancakes of gorgeousness were amazing — crunchy, ever so slightly spicy and golden. They were so good that despite the amount of food we ordered I very nearly ordered a second plate.
Kim Chi — Famous spicy Korean preserved cabbage. Kimchi is a weird dish, you will either love it or hate it. It lives very firmly in the Yum/​Yuck section of food. Personally I love it. This version was nice and crunchy with just the right amount of heat for me.
Deep Fried Chicken — Korean flavoured deep-​fried chicken. We opted to have ours served in a spicy sauce. This was another favourite of mine. The sauce definitely made the dish, it was a hot tomato base loaded (I think) with soya sauce, it was incredibly moreish. The chicken was well cooked and the crunchy coating held up well to being smothering in sticky sauce. A fantastic little dish which I massively recommend.
Beef Bul Go Gi — Korean BBQ beef served in Chef’s special sauce. This was actually MrG dish but we shared our dishes a little. The beef was tender and moist but there was no sauce as such to speak of. I would say that by default this was probably my least favourite dish but only because this was the blandest of them all… not bad as such it just didn’t compare to the other extremely flavourful dishes.
Cheese Don Katu — Deep fried pork loin in breadcrumbs with cheese in the middle. I can not tell you how much I LOVED this dish. This breadcrumb coating was beautifully seasoned and the cheese was gooey and plentiful. The pork had perhaps dried out ever so slightly due to the deep-​frying but this was more than compensated with the glorious cheese. I would absolutely have this dish again.
For this insanely wonderful Korean food our bill came in at £97.03 which included all this food plus 2 rounds of drinks, a bowl of soup and Cheese Raymun which I never tried plus a second portion of Cheese Don Katu. So all in the value for money was absolutely excellent and could not be faulted.

I was lucky enough to visit South Korea recently and I loved the food. When I came back I thought I was going to struggle to get modern authentic Korean food, but that fear is now over!
I also know I keep saying «this place is amazing», as I visit and review another quirky Asian Glasgow restaurant, but this place really really is AMAZING! It’s definitely a no frills place in terms of décor but it has all the skills when it comes to Korean cooking. Plus modern Korean cuisine is really really different to other Asian style (Chinese, Thai, Japanese) food. You are in for a treat and something totally different.
Here goes with the food run down… We went with picking a feast of dishes to share so bare with me as I try to mention it all. Pan fried and hand made dumplings, pork and chive flavour with soy sauce on the side. Both lovely and standard as dumplings go. I actually preferred the hand made boiled to the pot stickers on this occasion. Along side this we had normal cold Kimichi and pan fried Kimichi dusted with flour. The first was just the norm, you either like it or you don’t. Spicy and a bit strange at first. You should give it a try if you ain’t tasted it before, but it is not something everyone would like. The second was the pan fried one. This was brilliant. Almost like a Kimichi pancake. I loved it!
Everything sort of just comes when it’s ready but you could divide the food so far off as a sort of starter bracket. Next up was the selection of mains. Now a huge trend in Korea is cheese in their food. When we were out in Seoul last year with locals it was on just about every dish they chose. So I was delighted to see it was in lots of the menu options available to us last night. I had an amazing huge bowl of cheese ramen. Thick spicy tomato soup, noodles, pork sausage, cabbage and cheese melted over the top, (In some ways it seems almost like an Italian stew). It sounds strange, but tasted amazing. I also got to share a pork loin stuffed with cheese (rice on the side) and a bowl of spicy Korean chicken wings. Again both were lovely, but you defo need to get that spicy chicken wings it a total food winner.
All the food was amazing and this is one of the most exciting meals out I have had in a long time. If you have not tasted Korean food before, prepare for the unexpected and if you have been to more traditional places and were not keen, this is much more modern style and you should give it another try. We all had a huge amount of food, and a couple of drinks and it came to a reasonable 25 quid a head, but you could eat for under a tenner if you wanted. (The huge ramen was only £7.99)
Two final things to mention. First they only take cash. Second this is all off the Korean food menu, they do a separate hot pot menu (yes there is a second menu I am still to try!) we got asked which one we wanted when we arrived.
I love you master sun… (Whoever you are)

The Korean food has just sold me. I liked the hot pot before but I’m seriously very happy with the Korean food that I ate for dinner today!
It was clearly a «red» dinner since everything was spicy but DELICIOUS!
I ordered the kimchi chiggae which is spicy kimchi soup (that comes with rice) and ddubboki (rice cakes) and Korean style deep fried chicken to share with my partner and friend. Also a pot of lychee tea on the side!
The kimchi chiggae was awesome! I was so satisfied having that spicy soup after a day out in the rain and cold! It warned me right up! And comes with rice so it’s very filling!
The ddubboki was great too. But my favourite was the fried chicken! Ugh I really want more! So yummy! Such a guilty pleasure, but I can’t help it!
Between the 3 of us, we paid about £13 per person, which is incredibly affordable for how full I was after the meal. Great deal!
Today was a full house too so I assume the place is regularly busy on weekends, but service was great! Front house waitress is a friendly burst of sunshine :)
Will definitely be back for more Korean food! Loved it to bits!

I live very close by here but have never been, until my wife who loves hot pot and misses the giant Koreatown ‘back home’ nudged me in. It was late (maybe 9.30 on a Thursday evening) and we were the only customers during our stay. This places sells loads of dishes from various eastern cuisines, but we asked about the hot pot right away. The waiter couldn’t have been nicer, explained the whole thing for us newbies and gave us a few tips to get started. We ordered a mix of beef, squid and veggies in a hot and spicy broth (you can have 2 broths, the bowl has a center divider). This is amazing fun! You pop the raw ingredients in the boiling broth for a few minutes and fish it out again to enjoy. I recommend getting a bowl of rice too, to drop the hot food into. Then at the end you have amazingly flavoured rice to finish with!
My only negative would be that it’s a bit pricey, but rather than being a gimmick the hot pot is genuinely delicious and I’d say it’s worth it. I imagine in the middle of winter it will be even more so!

this place has been open a month or two, and I’ve meant to pop in. it’s quite a convoluted affair, but the helpful staff are able to guide you. I made my choices from the £12.99 per person menus, offering a choice of meats, seafood, vegetables, sides and skewers. first arrived a humongous metal bowl of soup for cooking the food in, and a hot plate that set it bubbling. then came my choice of items. I chose the kimchi soup, I wanted something with a bit of a kick. the waiter told me what to do, basically drop the meat in until it went from red to Gray and cooked. I chose lamb which came in a pile of wafer thin curls, some squid and prawn and veg. I was then told I could get a bowl of sauces such as chilli oil, sesame butter and garlic. I got on with it, being bloody hungry, and used the little metal net to fish stuff out. the staff seemed a bit bemused to see a non-​Chinese person in there, but were really helpful. overall I was impressed with the food, the spice, and the value. when the plates of food came I thought I’d set myself a challenge but I managed to do a good job polishing it all off. this is a great venue for groups, and I felt a bit of a tit on my own, but used to it. I’ll be back more than likely to check out the lunch time bowls