Do Si Rac - Panama

The food is good and authentic and the prices are fair for the amount and quality. The service has been among the best I've experienced in two months in Panama. I will definitely be back to work my way through the extensive menu!

All food, even take-out comes with Banchan starters: broccoli, pickled radish, kimchi, bean sprouts, and broiled sweet potato. One of the few good and filling healthy options in the city.

Best Korean restaurant in Panama City. My wife and I love it. Everything is so fresh and the service is amazing. José is really nice and polite. We are lucky he always attends us

I love the Korean food in here. They serve good portions of food that leaves me full enough for hours or allow me to take out for later. We are able to choose how spicy we want the dish to be. I have tried many dishes and all have been amazing. Love the little dishes that they give while waiting for the main order. They even bring more if we request it and is courtesy of the house. The iced tea they serve taste very nice and is very refreshing. I also like the privacy we get in the separate rooms they have for each group or table. But they also have a space with a few separate tables like in a salon.

I will preface this by saying that this is my first time eating at a restaurant that offers Korean cuisine, as well as my very first time visiting this restaurant. Here was my experience, and I'm sorry to say that it wasn't a good one. I was walking to the establishment and found very cramped stairs. But I began to feel uncomfortable as soon as I walked in, after having my temperature checked and being given hand sanitizer by the employee. I had no intentions of staying at the restaurant to eat, but my goodness, it looked dirty and very unwelcoming. I was given the menu, which clearly has been touched by many different people without being cleaned, and I was then told I could sit down. The chairs were also dirty in addition to being very worn out. The lady was nice, but the place just didn't seem clean. The problem I had with the menu is that it does NOT tell you what exactly is in each item (for example, how a burger will tell you it has lettuce, onions, tomatoes, etc. . I did come for a new experience, but I really had no idea what I was eating; I had to guess what I was getting. As I was looking through the menu, another employee told me about a special they were having (which wasn't on the menu and showed me on his phone. I acknowledged and thanked him, and he leaves the phone on the table. I finally place my order, but there was an employee who was behind the tinted door behind the kitchen, staring at me very intensely. I am assuming he was doing this because he thought I was going to steal the phone that the other employee had left on the table. It was at this point that I become uncomfortable and annoyed at the same time, because it seemed the employee thought that I was going to steal the phone. It's insulting because I'm not a thief and I came with the intention to pay for food I have never tried before, hoping for it to be a positive experience. He really stood there motionlessly and stared at me for three whole minutes without turning away. I'm just sitting there in a filthy, worn out chair being stared down by an employee in a restaurant that isn't particularly clean. So they tell me that my food is prepared, and I was not given a receipt; I don't like it when restaurants do not give you a receipt because it doesn't give customers any way to verify the charges. I paid over $30.00 just for two small soups, two small containers of rice, kimchi, potatoes, a small bit of foil that contained what I think was squid, and a spoonful of potato salad. The potato salad in particular bothers me, because other reviews say that the food is authentic Korean cuisine, but as far as I know potato salad isn't Korean at all. The food is somewhat expensive for what you receive, which is perhaps why they don't really print it out clearly for customers what each item brings, on top of not giving you a receipt. I ate and shared some of the food, but I shortly felt like vomiting and had diarrhea for 3 days. Basically I paid for food that wasn't completely authentic, was expensive for the amount I was given, and made me sick. Overall, it wasn't a good experience. If you have never tried Korean food and would like to, or you already have and are looking for a place to eat, I highly advise that you not visit DO-SI-RAC. Stay away from that place and find somewhere better to eat.