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| - Sometimes I just dont wanna go to Koreatown. I love Korean food but I dont always feel like trekking to bloor west and sitting in an authentic korean restaurant with plastic covered menus and melamine glasses of water to drink out of. Sometimes, I just feel snooty and want to eat out of steaming copper pots with brass chopsticks. On those days, I suggest you head over to Swish by Han.
Our yelping group gathered at the newly put together Swish by Han to try this thing called korean food. What we ended up eating is by no means authentic korean food. Perhaps a twist of it?...a swish if you may? ok ok i'll stop.
Our "beginners" included purple yam fries, jellyfish, spicy garlic shrimps and dumplings. The jellyfish tasted fresh and slightly smokey like a seaweed salad, the purple yam fries were a tad overfried. The shrimp were what they were but with a nice spicy kick and I passed on the pork dumplings.
Then came the task of shabu shabu-ing our own food (which, as our very own Susan C. informed us, is a japanese (not korean) meal option). I sigh at fusion. I really do. Why must all japanese/korean fusion food require so much work? Shabu shabuing requires a dumping of either beef, seafood or mushrooms into a boiling broth in front of you and then playing the catch me if you can game of trying to get those buggers back onto your plate. Needless to say, Kat F. and I gave up after the first few platefuls. All this aside, our mushroom option came with 5 different types of mushrooms including shitake, portabello & crimini.
I recommend Swish by Han for a date..something about working together in unison with fire between you, paired with infused Soju (a bottle of straight up soju infused with random flavours like citrus, ginger etc.) makes this a win win situation.
Keeping that in mind, clearly i'll be back.
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