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| - A friend came in for a visit and we greeted her Vegas style by going to an AYCE place. Woo Che is great for people who like Korean food, but do not have the budget to be adventurous and order it a la carte. Aziz B. can put down bulgogi like no other and we realized that coming here was cheaper than us going to Greenland and buying it by the pound.
The meat is a little too fatty for my taste, but if I have learned anything from my years in Korea, Koreans love their fatty meats. Samgyupsal, also known as Korean bacon or three layer fat, is the protein of choice over there. I, on the other hand, was known to cut it off, and pissed off quite a few friends.
I had eaten at DJK and Mother's on numerous occasions. Back then, I accepted that you got your BBQ, a bowl of rice, your banchan, and that was it. Looking back, I feel cheated, because the traditional Korean way is so much healthier. If a restaurant offers you all of the above with lettuce and sesame leaves to wrap your meat with, you have struck gold. I have yet to find one. The ultimate way to eat this cuisine is to take a preferred leaf, a piece of garlic, pepper, pickled daikon, meat, kimchi, some ssamjang (a mixture of red pepper paste, soy bean paste, and garlic) close it and shove it in your mouth.
The part Katrina M. and I liked best was their cold bar filled with all the fixings to make bibimbap. I started with the mix rice base, adding bean sprouts, sauteed mushrooms, spinach, carrots, the brown root, daikon, pepper paste, sesame oil, dried seaweed, and a fried egg. Thoroughly mix this up and you are sure to be pleased with at least one item.
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