Korean Food, I’ve Missed You.
Seattle is funny. When Liana and I moved here, I figured we’d be able to find the best places to eat in the first month, recommend the heck out of them and proceed to eat there until we moved somewhere else. SO TOTALLY not the case. LOL. It’s been almost 7 months since we’ve been here, and only NOW we’ve begun to really dig into the “hay, can you hook a brother up” haunts and dives around the state. Sigh.
Ok why Korean food all of a sudden? I hate to say it, but television. LOL. Jon, from Jon & Kate Plus 8 – an adorable reality show about two parents, their twins and sextuplets – made bulgogi for his family at home. That started the craving. After that episode, we channel surfed over to the Travel Channel, where we watched Anthony Bourdain trek around Korea and eat up anything that was put in front of him. That man makes food look SO DAMN GOOD. It was a sign. No…
IT WAS FATE. lol.
We received a recommendation to eat at Hosoonyi, a clean restaurant in Edmonds, WA – about 20 mins from downtown Seattle. We ordered a LOT of food: Pork bulgogi, soft tofu and seafood soup, beef stew with green onions and a huge seafood pancake. If you’re not familiar with Korean food, most (if not all) restaurants give you 7+ small plates of side dishes – some picked and sour like kim chee, and some soothing to your burning tongue like mochi and boiled potato.
It was the best Korean food I’ve had in a LONG time. The only other place that compares to it is Chicago Kalbi on Lawerence street in Chicago. The pancake was light a fluffy, the soups were spicy as hell, the beer was cold, the pork bulgogi was sizzing on a plate when it got to our table and had a deep charcoal grill flavor. EEEEEEE. DELICIOUS! We ate most of it, but the best thing about all of this is I have leftovers for lunch today (if I can sneak some before Liana gets to it LOL)! YAY Korean food!
Annyong-hi kashipshio! 
~Spec
July 16th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Oh man, I LOVE LOVE LOVE Korean food. So good and spicey and delicious no matter how hot it is outside. I love trying out all the new panchan at different places. Hell, I can eat just rice and the panchan and be happy.