Saturday, November 22, 2008

Meatfest, Part II

You would think that all-you-can-eat meat on Thursday was enough for us.

Nope.
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Friday night, we met some of Mr. Monkey's college friends for all-you-can-eat Korean barbecue at Si Gol Ssam Bob (480 N. Western Avenue, Los Angeles, (323) 467-0100).
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See those vents on the ceiling? They are useless. Your clothes will smell like beef. Your bag will smell like beef. Your hair will smell like beef. I think even my socks smell like beef.

For $14.99, you can get unlimited chadolbaegi (brisket), kalbi (beef rib), bulgogi (thinly sliced marinated beef), samgyeopsal (pork belly), makchang and gobchang (large and small intestine), and some other typical accompaniments.
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Some introductory panchan (side dishes).
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The accoutrements for your meat: doenjang ssamjang (bean paste), fresh greens, and sea salt-sesame oil and sweet jalapeƱo dipping sauces.
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Gyeran jjim (steamed egg).
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Soju with hilarious packaging.
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Chadolbaegi.
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Bulgogi.
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Kalbi.
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Kalbi in lettuce with ssamjang. I like kalbi the best.
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Samgyeopsal. It's basically bacon.
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Beware when grilling intestines. They pop and splatter a lot before they shrivel to their final crispy chewy state. I like mine really charred.
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For $2.00 extra, you can get all the small squid you can eat.
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I kind of felt like Sigourney Weaver tackling Aliens.

After you give up on grilled meat, you slurp up dongchimi guksu (cold noodle soup with daikon and green onions).
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I'm not usually a fan of cold noodles, but I do like them after a meaty meal like this. They feel oddly cleansing.

13 comments:

  1. I hope you wore your 'meat' sweater. It just adds another depth to the ramen/meat infused sweater. Yum!

    Now i'm craving cold noodles. Your blog makes me hungry all the time.

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  2. I feel like I learned a lot reading this post.

    The squid looks really delicious. I love squid.

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  3. mmmm, bulgogi.

    that's quite a sex-ay beverage you got there.

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  4. i'm getting k-bbq this week; your post made me THAT much more excited. ;-) btw -- the sauce you put with your meat is called ssam jang, a hybrid of (the more spicy) kochujang with the fermented dwenjang paste. yumm!

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  5. Thanks, Angel! I've made the correction above!

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  6. Wow, that squid. Um, yuck. Color me nauseated.

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  7. That is a meat fest part 2 indeed. I'm not gonna lie, the intestines made me gag a little. ;)

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  8. Bulgogi is my fave. Why do korean bbq places all look same?

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  9. As much as I love your photography, this post might have made me go vegetarian! *lol*

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  10. the first 4 pics of this post look straight out of Decor8! You're photography is getting more fierce each restaurant you go to!

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  11. Hee. Meat sweater. I haven't had squid in a long time.

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