There’s a great Korean restaurant in Bozeman that I often went to, but I never found anything on the menu that I liked better than the beef bulgogi or the sizzling bi-bim-bob (your transliteration may vary). I usually went with the cucumber salad rather than the kimchi, though-- Kimchi is too cabbagy for my tastes (though if you really like cabbage, go for it, of course).
We have a new Korean-Mexican Fusion place called Hankook Taqueria. It’s supposed to be really good. It’s a lunch place in an industrial area. I want to try it when I’m in that area and have some time.
Poodle-Found-In-Alley, ASPCA-Puppy, Wild Spaniel…
That’s completely unnecessary.
This is threadshitting. Don’t do it again.
I agree with kimchi. There was awesome kimchi in Hawaii due to the large Korean population. But when it’s bad, it can be very bad, so buyer beware.
Really ?
http://koreandogs.org/
http://animalrightskorea.org/dog-meat-issue/current-situation-of-koreas-dog-meat-industry.html
So you get called for shitting all over the thread and you double down?!
Real nice :rolleyes:
What the hell does that have to do with this discussion? Start your own thread elsewhere for those topics.
Anyway, I’m a big fan of most of the dishes mentioned above. I really like jap chae. Also “Number 12.”
Years ago I was at the lunch counter at Lotte while my wife was shopping. I ordered the Number 12, which was raw fish in a salad over rice with spicy red pepper sauce to mix in. The Korean ajumma insisted I wanted Number 4 (a similar dish but not spicy). Despite my pleadings that I did indeed want a very spicy Number 12, she wasn’t going to fix it for me. Until my wife showed up and gently explained that it was okay–I was used to spicy Korean food.
“Number 12” is now an in-joke I share with my wife.
Yes. First off, the OP is asking about food in the U.S., where those foods would be very rare if not illegal. Second, you were clearly being a jerk by making jokes instead of expressing some kind of humanitarian concern. And third, since you’re still at it, you can now have an official warning.
You’re in Annandale? Have you been to Vit Goel/Lighthouse Tofu? Their soup is fantastic.
We live in Arlington, not Annandale. We’ve been to Honey Pig and a place on Columbia Pike with no english name (google calls it Ka Bo Ja)- liked the first and loved the second. We’ll have to try Lighthouse Tofu.
Another recommendation for Lighthouse tofu, although I’ve only been to the one in Centreville.
And also this, in case you missed it before:
Check out Kimchi Chronicles for ideas.
Kobyoshi is good from what I hear.
When we were in school in Hawaii, there was a popular Korean restaurant near campus where you grilled your food on the table top. I forget what that style is called, but it seemed to be uniquely Korean.
Since no one has mentioned it, I’ll suggest that you also should try duboki (sp? in Korean 떡볶이). Rice cakes in a delicious sauce.
That’s basically Korean BBQ. It’s basically how most Americans, including the OP, experience any kind of Korean food.
You can ask for the kitchen to pre-grill your meat. It depends on how much you like your clothes. It’s impossible to grill at the table without smelling of meat for the rest of the day.
Also, RE: eating dogs - it happens in Korea but it’s hardly universal. One of my own grandmothers did it once and didn’t much like it. She told her kids never to do it. It helps that it was considered somewhat a low-class thing to do (which is a bit classist, but there you go). And that’s pretty much it for any of my family (paternal and maternal) back at least 4 generations. I personally couldn’t tell you if it’s any good or not, but the vast majority of Koreans for the last 3 or 4 generations have never nor will ever eat a dog and fewer still do so more than once.
If you go to a Korean buffet, you’ll get to try all kinds of things, none of which I know the names of. Il Mee in Annandale is a good one. Hee Been in Alexandria is more than twice as expensive ($40-$50 a head) but its selection is amazing.