Restaurants
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Review: Korean Village Wooden Charcoal BBQ House, San Francisco
The restaurant was nearly empty when we sauntered in at 1:45 p.m. on a Sunday afternoon. Two men were engaged in an animated conversation in a Chinese language at a table on the opposite side of the restaurant, their words echoing off the walls and the mirror that stretched the length of one side of…
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Oppadak – Awesome Chicken Eats in Seoul
By Jason Yu In the early afternoon here in Seoul, Korea, a delightful smell is just around the corner. As my friends and I head for the restaurant, the fresh aroma is coming from not just any Korean restaurant. While Kimchi, bulgogi and bibimbap may be Korean staples today, this sit-down eatery is a chicken…
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VIP Restaurant, Anchorage, Alaska
On trips to see family in Alaska’s largest city, Anchorage, I make it a point to visit VIP Restaurant at least once. It’s located in the Valhalla Center, a retail and office building amid the Korean business cluster along West Northern Lights Boulevard. There are a few other Korean restaurants in the city, but I…
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Petra Palace
Location: Itaewon Cuisine: Middle Eastern Reservations: No Suggested Items: Falafel, hummus Other Amenities: Phone: 02-749-9329 Location * Please help complete this review by adding information in the comments
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Shy Bana 샤이바나
Location: Soraemaul, Gwanghwamun, and other locations Cuisine: American (Southern) Reservations: Accepted Suggested Items: Hmm… the sides? Other Amenities: English menu Phone: 02-536-2441 Website: Location How the FUCK is this gumbo? And served with a shitty burned biscuit. Macaroni and Cheese. Cheese freshly scraped from the cook’s butt crack. Smelled like it, at least. Soft Shell…
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San Tung Chinese Restaurant – San Francisco Bay Area
Jajangmyun (자장면) is one of the national foods of Korea, you will not find one Korean person who doesn’t like it. Okay, that might be an exaggeration, but you get the idea. The said tasty noodle dish is Chinese in origin. However, it was created with Korean people’s taste in mind, by Chinese restaurateurs, in…
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San Francisco Restaurants: YakiniQ
I’ll admit, despite how it looks or tastes, it’s pretty hard to mess up Korean BBQ. Let’s call it Korean grilled meat, to be more accurate. The Korean meat marinade is not that difficult to make, either. The real art is in the type of meat and its preparation. Of course, there is the grilling…
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Itaewon’s Biggest Rip-offs?
There’s a pretty old thread on Dave’s–HEY, come back! I feel the same way, but sometimes they have useful info in there. I just got sucked into this 14-page thread called “Ripoff restaurants in Itaewon” that was started in 2009 and noticed that certain places popped up regularly, good and bad. In fact, it’s not…
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Tov Tofu, Santa Rosa
Tov Tofu in Santa Rosa opened in late 2010 and is the latest Korean restaurant to open in Sonoma County, a winegrowing region about an hour north of San Francisco. Bear Korean in Cotati opened several years ago, followed by the now shuttered Nha Bee in Santa Rosa and Honey Cuisine in Rohnert Park in…
