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Dinner with Robyn and Jess at Arirang in K-town.
Pickled Daikon
Chinese hand-pulled noodles, I am very familiar with. But Korean hand-pulled (and knife-cut) noodles? This was a completely new world!
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First, read Robyn's Serious Eats post on Arirang here. She offers a more detail on that post than I will here. I accompanied Robyn on her second visit, along with the very awesome Jess who speaks Korean fluently and helped tremendously with ordering ^_^
We shared one massive, MASSIVE bowl of seafood kar-jeabe and a seafood pancake...I'm a pretty big eater, and the three of us put together could barely finish both those dishes (granted, I had a slice of Artichoke pizza right before this o_O).
Pictured above is the seafood kar-jeabe...
...which has a mix of both torn noodles...
...and knife-cut noodles...like dumplings, minus the filling. Pretty awesome, huh?
Then we moved onto the seafood pancake, which was equally enormous. Super crispy surface, and chewy, almost mochi-esque innards strewn with cuttlefish and green onions.
Six huge triangular wedges to an order...cut and dip...
...into a vinegar-shoyu-chili sauce. Nomnom.
Arirang
32 West 32nd Street, 3rd Floor
New York NY 10001
212-967-5088
7 comments:
Hey Kathy - actually, the knife-cut noodles are the regular noodles. The sujebi (or the "dough flakes" as they call them there) are... just chunks. None of these are really hand-pulled, I guess? Or if anything, I guess the dough flakes come closest. :)
Oh man. This place induces the heaviest food coma in me. Such carby dericiousnessss.
Seafood Pancake! Two of my favorite things!
mmm everything looks delicious!
wahh. now that's what i'm talkin' about. sujaebee is very dense. this looks like it could cause constipation.
nom NOM indeed. :) I've never had knife-cut noodles at a Korean place, only Chinese, and I'm curious...
Have to confess my lack of love for pajeong though. Maybe I've never had a really great one, but it just seems like oily, chewy, unnecessarilly heavy filler.
Hey Emily!
Thanks for the corrections...I've been getting it wrong this whole time, ehehe ^_^
Hey Melissa!
Hehe, awesome!! :D
Kat!
It was! ^_^
Hey Yutjansah!
bwahaha, the broth was super rich :)
Hey Pam!
I've always been a fan of pajeong, but this one was exceptional...not too greasy, super crisp and full of flavour ^_^
K!, is this Arirang a USA branch of a So Korea chain?
I recall they opened their 1st USA branch back about 10yrs ago in Pasadena.
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