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| - My wife and I had a personal tragedy yesterday and we were looking to cheer each other up with some of her favorite comfort food - Korean.
We did our typical Yelp search as it serves as our only guide in a valley still new to us and found Goodfella. Now I had my misgivings. I'm from an Italian neighborhood in Chicago so, naturally, I was intrigued to make the connection.
My wife is observant about lots of things, but it comes to restaurants, she wants to see people of the same ethnic background going to the same cuisine (Italians at Italian bistros, Chinese at Chinese, etc.). She noticed right off that plenty of Koreans were popping in and out of their establishment. Another person we noticed was the ever present elder in the corner watching tv. Now, in Chicago, I've noticed that elders in the restaurant are the silent overseers of the establishment - kind of like the gargoyles sitting atop French churches keeping an eye on the city. It's comforting and reassuring.
Gino cooks and Yung, his wife, manages everything else. It's a team that works and produces, hands down, the best Korean food we've found in the valley. So much better that they're close to home and a bargain compared to our former staple of Ginseng BBQ2 on the strip.
Yung and Gino went out of their way to make us feel welcome. We got the feeling like we were given the private chef's table in the kitchen like some of the old, authentic Italian restaurants back home are famous for. Gino, a well travelled man of culture, shared with us his philosophy on Korean food.
Authenticity.
Gino has a distaste for fusion. Why? Because it dilutes the cultural heritage of a cuisine by trying to make it adapt to a Western palette. He believes in cooking and doing one thing good and it's making authentic Korean food.
The result is delicious.
He pulled up a chair and regaled us with stories of his time lived in various places such as New York and Chicago - his culinary adventures there and the experiences he's had. We could have talked all night - it was like we were being entertained by Andrew Zimmern or Samantha Brown.
Anyway, I'm gushing. Since we ordered so much food, we had plenty of take home. Gino made sure that we understood how to properly warm up our food so we could enjoy our japchae (the best I've ever had) again the next morning.
Go here. Eat. Have fun and sing a tune or two next door as they have a karaoke bar too!
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