RICEBOY

"Rice Boy is adjacent to Kimganae in the food court inside Hmart LIC. By and large, they complement each other pretty well in terms of covering Korean street food, with just a few overlaps. Rice Boy is a bit more casual and at slightly lower price points. Grand-opened in May'24 with 30% discount throught Aug'24. Their signature offerings are the Cupbops, with many spins and mixes of (non-soup) Korean cuisines placed inside a paper bowl: boneless chicken, glass noodles, kimchi, bulgogi, fried dumplings, etc. Another main offerings are the mini pots/stews: tofu based and soy bean paste based soup dishes. These pretty much occupy 2/3 of its menu space. - Sweet & Spicy Chicken Cupbop $10. Very safe and balanced dish. Good mix of glass noodle, rice and garden salad in addition to the boneless chicken. - Soy Garlic Chicken Cupbop $11. Ditto the above, except the price just gone up between our visits! Can't go wrong with either one, except this one is saltier and missing the kick that the other one has. - Jajiang Noodle $13. Dry udon with onion and jajiang sauce and noodled cucumber. This was the first time I have jajiang on udon. It's OK but I prefer thinner type of noodle with this dish. - Soft Tofu Soup with Seafood $13. This is the classic Sundubu that I love. Hot, spicy with heavy seafood flavor and tantalizing texture of soft tofu. - Beef Denjang $ 13. This is the soy bean paste version of sundubu. This was the first time I tried it and definitely my last. Essentially miso soup base which is too lame for me. 3.5 but round down to 3 to differentiate my rating on Kimganae (4)."

"We come to hmart all the time and pretty excited that they opened the food court. It became a routine that we eat here when we do grocery shopping here. We ordered chicken rice and galbitang to try. It was our first time trying rice boy. Wait time was about 20 minutes because of kalbitang but when food came out, both were pretty good! Worth the wait!"

"The grand opening of the food court at Hmart was pretty packed today. If you're doing groceries, it's worth checking out. They have a promotion (30% discount) running until June 6th."

"Waited almost 20 mins for my two bowls of beef cupbab to go. What's worse was that they forgot to include japchar in both of them and the meat was so little to start with. Should've checked first before I left but that was really disappointing for a place/food court thats newly open. I think the staff was overwhelmed by the amount of people ordering that day and management did not handle the situation well enough, had people complaining left and right because of the wrong order, etc."

"We went during the grand opening of Hmart’s food court (LIC location) on Friday and it was super packed. I guess I wasn’t the only one that was excited about their grand opening. Most of the food court is located next to the cash registers and there are a couple of stalls (Oh K Dog and Gong Cha) located by the elevators. After walking around the food court, I decided to try out the Rice Boy food stall and got the Miso Ramen ($13.99) and the Beef Boy Rice Bowl ($12.99) to go. I honestly think they were overwhelmed by the number of visitors and weren’t prepared for the volume that day. We waited about forty-five minutes for our food and probably would have waited more if I hadn’t decided to go up to the counter to inquire about my order. The Beef Boy Rice Bowl had thin marinated slices of beef (bulgogi) on top of white rice, lettuce and plain japchae noodles. While the meat was nicely marinated and thin, the bowl itself was somewhat underwhelming. It could have used more grilled onions or something to amp the taste. The Miso Ramen was actually pretty good. The broth was packed separately which I appreciated. And the broth was nice and savory. Also, the ramen egg had a perfectly jammy yolk. The only thing it needed was more thinly sliced pork. The few tiny pieces (scraps really) were not enough for this size ramen bowl. I think the prices on the menu are pretty reasonable and with the additional grand opening discount it was even better. The discount is going on until June 6th (one month) for 30% off discount in the food court. Plenty of time to try out one of their food stalls. Just be prepared to bring some patience with you as they work out the kinks. I am most likely going to be trying out their food court again but will try to time it during non-peak times."