Gamja Tang Tang

Love the Gamja tang here. Not too spicy and they come in different options. Portion are very generous for the price, considering the fact that they also make some fried rice after you’re done with the soup.
Jokbal is also very good. A bit on the sweet side compared to some of the other places and has a strong hint of cinnamon.
The parking lot they have make it extremely accessible. Great having a place like this in the area!

I love this place. The titular meal– the gamja tang – is the best comfort food. It’s a soupy mix of braised pork neck in a slightly spicy broth with vegetables and rice cakes. They heat it all up for you on a hot plate at your table, and you can add things like extra rice cakes or noodles to the soup. The banchan is nice too, they include those spicy fried fish cakes which are delicious and tasted really fresh. It’s BYOB too, which is great because there’s no better friend to spicy pork than cold beer! I can’t wait to come back here again!

Gamja Tang and Jok Bal taste very good however, the portion is terrible. I ordered half jok bal and half bool jok bal. There were only 5 pieces of jok bal and 7 pieces of bool jok bal and price was about $ 25. Also the gam ja tang portion was very little. Owner was very rude and look down on customers.

You have to try #1 & #11 amazing!
Parking lot is big. Small restaurant and its byob!

The food is a solid 4 but this is the second time I’ve had an uncomfortable exp here so… Pretty sure I won’t be returning for dinner again.
Dined here around 9pm last night and it was a full house. Most tables were drinking and keeping to themselves, but this one group would not stfu. It seemed to be 2 couples that were only getting drunker and louder by the minute. At one point they were loudly discussing liquor shits and diarrhea. Are you for real?! Thank you for ruining my appetite, peasants.
Now for the service… The owner was sweet but the waitress was extremely passive aggressive. I had come from crushing 2 hours at the gym and my friend had just finished a 12hr shift. We were fucking ravenous and inhaled the banchans in a matter of minutes. When she came to refill our banchans, she gave us a look and made it a point to tell us she can’t give us seconds of the tofu. Lol, WUHT? Tofu’s like $ 1.50 per pack and you gave us 3 small slices. I have NEVER been told at a restaurant that they cannot refill a banchan. She made another comment when she gave us more kimchi and it was just agitating. I’m sorry we eat like regular human beings and not tiny birds.
A non asian couple came in and the waitress forgot about all other tables. The broth had condensed so much while we were talking that it was just too salty to eat. The waitress is supposed to control the temperature and serve us; this is why we choose to eat at family style Korean spots! It also took awhile for us to get the fried rice made and pay but I digress.
Don’t come here if you’re looking to have a chill, boozy dinner. Lunch is where its at.

Authentic Korean food! Great food! Great service! Open late, mostly importantly: BYOB!!! Definitely can’t ask for more! Love this place!

Fantastic seaweed salad, and the kimchi pork soup is varied in textures and plentiful. Plus, barley tea and adorable waitress!

I can’t believe that I only recently found out about this place. We went two nights in a row — it is that good. And everyone that we brought also loved this place.
This place is no frills.
It’s posted on Unilocal that they close at 11pm but at 11:10pm, another table came in and they seated them. We did not leave the place until closer to 12 midnight as did many other tables.
We ordered the jokbal (cooked pigs feet) that they slice and serve with a salad. It is a humongous dish and well worth the $ 24 price tag. We also ordered the #4 tang which is made with pork bones, seafood and noodles. We got the size for 3 people and it was more than enough food for 3. In fact, it was too much food.
At the end of our meal, we asked the waitress to make us fried rice with our soup leftover. They bring out a big bowl of rice with seaweed, sesame oil, veggies and other ingredients and make it table side. The fried rice was delish.
The bill came out to be around $ 82 for three very stuffed and 2 very drunk people. It is BYOB. We spent $ 35 on alcohol that would normally cost over $ 100 at a restaurant. So we enjoyed a wonderfully satisfying meal with our own alcohol for less than $ 117 total.

Gamja Tang Tang, two thumbs up!
My Fiancé and I are not frequent Bergen Country visitors, so not too long ago on a Saturday evening, we decided that was the end of it. Gamja Tang Tang was recommended to us by a family member, and highly rated on Unilocal.
It was a good thing we went when we did because this place is SUPER small. Beyond 6:30pm and chances you’re looking at waiting for a table. We got there shortly after 6:30 and had to wait a few minutes for the staff to shuffle a few people around to make room for the two of us. By the time we sat down, there were two families already waiting to be seated.
After settling in, browsing through the menu, and googling/​eyeing the dishes on everyone else’s table, we ended up getting the Gamja Tang Tang Casserole, a spicy pork casserole with greens and potatoes. And you know what? It was phenomenal! It was brought out and left on our hot plate and once it bubbled up, our server came by to serve us the first portion. Our meal came with banchan as per usual with Korean food and we had ordered two bowls of rice, a mixture of black & white sweet rice.
The entire meal was so satisfying, so hearty! If the streets weren’t so awkwardly laid out, I would visit Fort Lee more often!
Don’t forget, it’s BYO!!! Do this ahead of time because the liquor stores in the area are few and far in between!

The Story: Found this place via Unilocal when I needed a place for dinner Friday night. Decided to pick this place because of the name and #4 looked sooo good.
Food: My boyfriend and I ordered the #4 tangtang, korean pancake and a jokbal (yeah it was a lot of food for 2 people). The tangtang was okay — the broth is excellent on left overs. Korean pancake is average and jokbal — It’s nothing compared to Chinese style. I feel like their ban chan was subpar.
Price: If we just have gotten the tang tang, it would of been about $ 20 per person. We didn’t so we ending up spending $ 90 for 2 people.
Décor: Cut little place, sitting about 25 people max.
Service: They were nice and filled out water when needed.
Parking & Finding the Place: located on main street with its own parking lot (thats useful)
Additional Thoughts: While the pictures make the food look so good. I do know would I come back here. I think the broth at Tang Maru is better.

My favorite gamjatang place nearby. Lots of meat on the bones, good flavor of the broth, and comes with a dipping sauce.
Downside is that the place feels a little rundown and is empty when I go.
Great prices during lunch.

We ordered gamjatang (2 portions) and we were stuffed by the time we left.
Though I think you may have to ask, the soup comes with complimentary rice.
if you want rice to be fried later, you have to pay extra. The fried rice was extremely sub par. and not worth 3 bucks per rice.
The gamjatang, however, was really good! Though it only came with four huge pieces, there were a lot of meat on each bone. The soup tasted pretty good. As I enjoy eating gamjatang whenever I miss Korean food, I can attest to the authenticity of this place :) The radish kimchi was really good, too!

Went in the mid afternoon for a «light» lunch. Wound up getting everything on the menu! This place was delicious. The appetizers (bahn chan) were all fresh and refilled periodically. Service was great and we wound up getting a couple of meals to go for later. I would definitely recommend this place again. See my pictures posted for my recommendations. The pork is amazing!

Recently, there have been so many Gamja Tang place that popped up in Fort Lee and Pal Park area. They all represent something little different with similar but with their won twist. I have to say that this place has finally got this act together. I don’t remember this place being on anyone’s list for Gamjatang and even for anything else. However, this is their specialty.
— Sit down and open the menu
— Pick your selection of soup style (regular pork and veggies or extra dried leaves or kimchee stew or seafood)
— Pick you size from 2 to 4 portions
— When you are eating, then add extra rice, sweet noodles, meat or veggie combo
I just think this is authentic gamjatang experience just like in Korea. It’s BYOB so choose your adult beverage and go for it. I would of course recommend soju.
There are other things on their menu but why go to a gamjatang place and order bibimbop?

My mom made comfort food a religious experience that I still practice to this day. If mom was ethnic Korean — dinner at Gamja Tang Tang is what dinner would look like at her house! Authentic, not fussy, abundant quantities, lots of flavors and textures, never short on seasoning, never rushed and ultimately, gut-​busting good! If you want a Korean chow down experience, in a BYOB environment, it does not get much homier than this.
Four of us consumed massive quantities for $ 100.00 (tip included) and even took some leftovers home. We had:
— Banchan — nice selection accompanied by both hot and iced barley tea (a bit too watered down — but refreshing); refilled as often as you like.
— Gamja Tang Tang — a magnificent stew pot of braised pork neck bones, vegetables and potato in an incredibly rich pork broth.
— Bulgogi — a heaping plate full of tender and well marinated grilled beef. One order is enough for two — seriously.
— Donkatsu — only pork our 8 year old will eat — and he almost ate both of the huge cutlets.
— Jokbal — roasted pork feet — fatty, spiced with cloves, star anise and sweetness, tender and delicious.
The wait staff is young and perfectly fluent in English — so for all of you non-​Koreans — make sure to ask about the menu if you want more information or if you want your meal spiced a particular way. They will accommodate.
This is not the most sophisticated Korean dining experience we’ve had — hence 4 stars — but I can find no fault with our meal. Worth the trip to Ft. Lee? Definitely! WIGB? Yep.

I’ve always been a huge fan of gamja tang ever since I’ve had my first one at Hamji Park in LA. My foodie inner-​self got super excited when I found out about this place which was only a few minute walk from my work. We got to the restaurant at around 6:30pm and it was empty. But as soon as we sat down, other diners began to flock in. By the time we left the restaurant was full.
We opted for the signature standard gamja tang for two people which ran for $ 32. The portion was surprisingly huge with five big chunks of pork neck bone and a couple of potatoes along with various vegetables. The pork meat off the bone was very tender and flavorful, which was expected as they must have been braised for a long time in that flavorful spicy soup. The sesame leaves added a nice touch to the stew as well.
The waiting staff was friendly and attentive. The only issue that I had was that our banchan dishes weren’t refilled automatically nor we were asked if we wanted to get them refilled. This probably happened to all non-​Koreans dining at Korean restaurants at some point. It wasn’t really a big deal since we were really full from the gamja tang (with leftover!) but I wouldn’t mind munching on some more of those delicious algamja jorim.
Next time I would have to try the pork feet and BMOB

My friend recommend this Korean restaurant to me, We came and tried the UIkeun tang tang, it’s so tasty and spicy! A very good place to have lunch and dinner with friends in fort lee.

When I stepped into this small, empty restaurant at 7pm, it got me worried.
By 9pm, the place was packed — I guess many Koreans are night owls.
The soup was amazing! They must have stew the soup for long hours as the pork fell right out from the rib. If you like seafood, get the seafood pork rib soup!
Service was one of the best ones in Korean restaurants. They came to refill our appetizers without being asked to (more a norm in Korean restaurants). The place was small but they did not rush us at all!
Highly recommend anyone that loves soup to give this place a try!

My wife told me this place was very good. And I decided to try it with my wife again today.
Waiting for the main dishes and had some of the side dish they served. Potato salad, sea food tempura, radish kim chi, pickled green pepper…
Dang!!! I found a leg of cockroach on the Potato salad. I know those sandwich refrigerators which share covers for all the small containers in there.
My wife told me all the commercial kitchens are same shit and told me to ignor…. I called the owner looking old lady and she said «are you sure that is roche leg?» And, I walked out and she said … «sorry»
I think all the restaurant owners should go to education class about food and sanitation.
And get tested for there license.
I will call the town of Fort Lee to find out how I can report this. Dont delete this review then I will really do it.
I want to give negative star rating but lowest one is 1 star.

Boo Boo and I came here for dinner and we shared a pork neck and potato stew/​soup. The staff was very nice and served us.
The portion is huge which always makes me happy sleepy. Their banchan was just ok. I didn’t load up it before the soup.
They have a parking lot that i did not see.
I would come back.