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Korean Food and Cooking

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2012

    What's in a Restaurant Name? The Potential For Threatening Letters and Expensive Lawsuits.

    Last November, Brooks Anderson and his brother Bradley, who are responsible for Veritas and Restaurant AVA, announced that, along with two other partners, they would be opening a new restaurant in the Bishop Arts District. Like restaurateurs often do, they agonized over names before eventually sett ... More >>

  • Dining

    February 2, 2012
  • Blogs

    February 1, 2012

    Tto Tto Wa Bistro and the Arrival of Korean Fried Chicken

    While researching Tto Tto Wa Bistro, the subject of this week's review, I read everything I could on an Asian delicacy that's become a personal obsession: Korean fried chicken. The earliest reference I could find to the stuff served in the States was in John T. Edge's book Fried Chicken, published ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2012

    La Hanbat Sul Lung Tang: Ignore Your Eyes. Obey Your Stomach.

    ​This week, the Cheap Bastard heads to Korea town looking for some soup at La Hanbat Sul Lung Tang, 2257 Royal Lane, 972-484-2002. That's why she told us she was there, anyhow. We're sure her visit had nothing to do with any "modeling" studios in the neighborhood. Mostly sure. Total number of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2011

    Before You Start Drinking, Relive a Big Week in Dallas Food News

    ​Have you been outside much today? While the weather was nippy this morning, the sun has warmed things up, resulting in some seriously beautiful fall weather. As soon as I get out of here I'm going to grab a thick jacket and engage in some excessive patio drinking. But before I work on my nex ... More >>

  • Dining

    November 3, 2011

    What Good is Rohst Without Fire?

    If Greenville Avenue's latest wants to conjure Korea, it needs to turn up the heat.

  • Dining

    August 18, 2011

    SSahm BBQ: We're Deep Into the Kimchee Now

    This is why we love food trucks.

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2011

    Let Us Be Your GPS for a Food-Truck Lunch

    ssahmBBQ.comKorean BBQ tacos.​If you're looking for something fabulous for lunch today, the SSahm BBQ foodtruck will be in the Dallas Arts District peddling gourmet Korean tacos. Then, if you're hungry for more tonight they're at the Walgreen's off Belt Line Road in Addison. • Gandolfo's i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2011

    LA Burger: Korean, Mexican and American Food Make Grand Alliance in Irving

    ​After months of drooling over the hedonistically obscene images of burgers, tacos and other meat and carb pornography my friends had been sending me, I finally had the chance to check out the source of their obsession: LA Burger.Along with a whimsical selection of traditionally western burgers, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2011

    Five Asian Lunch Options to Add to Your Rotation

    Kristy YangChosun's beef shortrib lunch box.​The boyfriend recently was moved to a different position at work, one with a shorter lunch break. So we decided to check out some of the quicker and better Asian-restaurant lunch deals around the Dallas area. Along with our own personal lunch spots ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2011

    b.b.bop Rice Bowls: There's Asian Fusion and There's All Over the Asian Map

    Photos by Kristy YangOutside b.b.bop's new location at Lovers and Greenville.​b.b.bop Rice Bowls confuses me. The Carrollton-based restaurant opened a Lovers Lane/Greenville location recently, and several friends on separate occasions suggested I try it. Admittedly, when I heard about the concept, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2011

    Goghee To Go Brings a Sweet (and Spicy) Promise to the Medical District

    ​Foodies were all aflutter when news broke that Goghee To Go, a Korean-Mexican fusion taquería, was opening in Dallas proper. While I was excited as well, I was disappointed by the lack of perspective. Goghee was heralded as a pioneer in the area, proving once again that only when it is conve ... More >>

  • Dining

    January 27, 2011

    B.B.Bop: Try a Korean Super Bowl

    ​Foodies were all aflutter when news broke that Goghee To Go, a Korean-Mexican fusion taquería, was opening in Dallas proper. While I was excited as well, I was disappointed by the lack of perspective. Goghee was heralded as a pioneer in the area, proving once again that only when it is conve ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2011

    Today: Free Tacos at Goghee To Go

    Jose Ralat Maldonado​Back in December, the Taco Trail led José Ralat Maldonado to Kor-BQ, a Korean taco joint operating in a Plano strip center. Now Goghee To Go is bringing Korean/Tex-Mex fusion to Dallas. Goghee To Go (2222 Inwood Road) is celebrating its grand opening today by giving cus ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2011

    Hungry on DART's Green Line? Here's a Big Honkin' List That Might Help

    ​It took four years and $1.8 million to complete the longest light-rail construction project in U.S. history -- says DART -- but a little more than one month since DART's Green Line opened, it's been for all intents and purposes a success. While the full line was officially opened on December ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2011

    What's in Store for the Taco in 2011?

    ​Having looked back at how the taco has fared in Dallas and across the country in 2010, Taco Trail now is looking toward the horizon and to what's next for our favorite food. What is clear from the beginning is that regionalism, whether Mexican state, foreign state or Lone Star State, will be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2010

    Venturing Out for a Bibimbap Bender
    In Koreatown

    Kristy YangTree House's bibimbap, a perfect blend of textures and flavors​I found myself on a bibimbap bender last week after my friend Sam had recommended two of his favorite restaurants in Koreatown. In the spirit of holiday overindulgence, I felt justified in visiting both places in the sam ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2010

    Kor-BQ Is Betting Against the Tasty Odds

    ​A food trend that came to the fore in 2009 has found a tenuous foothold in Plano. In February of that year, The New York Times ran a profile of Roy Choi and his Kogi BBQ food truck. This Los Angeles novelty traded (and does so now in a fleet) in Korean tacos, a fusion of Korean ingredients an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2010

    Not Exactly a Fleet of Food Trucks, but Many Mobile and Pop-Up Vendors To Sell Fare at Closing Day of Art in October

    Serious Eats​Arts District executive director Veletta Lill remains true to her word. Dallas' biggest booster for food trucks promised there would be mobile food vendors selling their fare during the Arts in October celebration and especially at the Sunday, October 31 Closing Day of Art in October ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2010

    Panda Express Goes "Koreanish"

    ​The measure of a food's success isn't how well it's generally prepared, but how frequently it gets screwed up. A dish enters the mainstream when dilettante cooks start messing with it, producing their own pitiable versions of a food that seemed fail-safe in expert hands. When top chefs years ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2010

    Sushi Star in Preston Hollow Shines With Far More Than Sushi

    ​My friend, Song Wii, owns Sushi Star Restaurant in Preston Hollow. I worry about him. Having watched my father work 12 hours a day behind a hot wok for years, I understand too well the pressures of running a restaurant. Unless impending bankruptcy or a natural disaster forces a restaurant to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2010

    Omi Korean Grill and Bar Gets Props for Location and Atmosphere but its Food Fumbles

    ​I found myself on an eating mission last week with Cathy, my ever present best friend in gluttony. After some random driving around, we found ourselves at the Super H Mart shopping center in Carrollton. It was destined to be, as we have had a long overdue date with Omi Korean Grill and Bar. Hav ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2010

    Catch the Seoul Train to Fine Food in Korea Town

    Little things mean a lot: Seoul Garden's small plates -- banchan -- are perfect for a big appetite.​ It took me a while to warm up to Korean food, to the chagrin of my many Korean friends. For inexplicable reasons, Korean food seemed to me to be the most foreign and odd of Asian cuisine. I sus ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2010

    Pho From Home: From Saigon Kitchen to the Super H Mart and Back

    Photos by Kristy YangSoup at Saigon Kitchen​Is it safe to come out? Someone's writing sure did bring about a lot of ire last week, but I've always felt food, like puppies and babies, is a unifier not a divider. So let's get started again. Like many food finding expeditions I've had in the past w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2009

    Veggie Guy: NAAN

    ​Ok--I'll admit it. The Shops at Legacy are pretty cool. Now if only they weren't all the way up in freakin' Oklahoma...erm...I mean Plano. I met up with my vegan buddy Drew at Legacy NAAN last week, where he'd set up a multiple-course vegan food tasting. It's located in the "old side [of the sh ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 7, 2008

    Fanct Feast

    Share the table with your pooch

  • Dining

    June 12, 2008

    Spooked Grill

    Share the table with your pooch

  • Dining

    May 19, 2005

    Otherworldly Feast

    Experimentation is rewarded at Sura Korean Bistro

  • Dining

    December 25, 2003

    Hip Hop

    Naan wants to bring "edgy" to Plano

  • Dining

    July 29, 1999

    My other secret garden

    Garden China needs more than a good weeding

  • Dining

    July 29, 1999

    My secret garden

    Seoul Garden blooms

  • Dining

    May 27, 1999

    Tin tongue

    Tin Star's "salsa, smoke, and sizzle" fizzle

  • Dining

    January 15, 1998

    Cold fusion

    Liberty's Asian fusion concept slips on a noodle

  • Dining

    July 31, 1997

    Bait yer hooks

    Matsu and Ichiban struggle with fish food

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