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Spicy, punishingly salty, and viscerally disconcerting, boodae chigae tastes like Campbell’s alphabet soup, Top Ramen, and Van Camp’s pork and beans on a drunken bender through Korea-town. Which makes sense, since the “army stew”—bobbing with Spam, tofu, duk rice cakes, and more—popped up around Seoul after the Korean War, as home cooks incorporated canned US Army rations into their kimchi Read more...
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Han Ly Hwang may be best known as the dude whose Korean food cart burned to smithereens just two hours after claiming the Judges Award at the 2011’s Eat Mobile festival. Reborn from the flames (and now with two locations), Hwang packs an irresistible wallop of Korean comfort in Kim Jong Grillin’s multifaceted Bibim Box. Pick your meat: short ribs Read more...
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Every aspect of this high-style, vintage clubhouse reflects a determination to combine great food with a verve found in Portland design and music but often lacking in our dining scene. The house bumps with great music, street art murals, and Asian eats from kimchi pancakes to noodles—nominally Korean, but open to global beats. Sexy lighting and painterly gray reflect off Read more...
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Unlike the noodles you’ll find at just about every other Chinese or Korean joint in town, Frank Fong’s irresistible creations are “hand-pulled”— stretched between fingers, cat’s-cradle style, until they achieve the Platonic ideal of length and width. Every morning, Fong and his wife spend about two hours meticulously transforming a precise combination of wheat flour and water into a tangle Read more...
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More than 4,000 Twitter followers make for hungry crowds wherever foodie entrepreneur Bo Kwon’s cart serves up his addictive Korean/Mexican street snacks, deftly combining Asian ingredients like kimchee, mung bean sprouts, and bulgogi with handmade tortillas, salsa, and pico de gallo. The Koi Fusion truck location changes daily, check Twitter @koifusionpdx for current details. The KOI-oisk is a pop-up shop Read more...
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At this tidy Korean grill house on SE Hawthorne Boulevard, you’ll find ginger-and-scallion-scented bowls of dumpling soup (mandoo guk), marinated short ribs or thinly sliced pork loin, and all manner of fresh seafood served (and cooked) on tiny personal hibachis set into each table. Read more...
