PrintKorean Tacos from Seoul Station
Since I'm not going to eat at Los Angeles-based Korean taco truck Kogi anytime soon, I was curious to try the recently added Korean tacos at Seoul Station in the East Village. Considering that I have nothing to compare them to Korean taco-wise, nor am I a very discriminate taco eater (I've only eaten them in New York City), my opinion may not mean much. But I do have food porn.
My opinions of these tacos ($2.50 each) are pretty much on par with Sarah DiGregorio's of Fork in the Road: Pork is king. Pork juice dribbled out of the shell as I picked up the pork bulgogi taco, making for a messy snack, but a messy snack enhanced by meat-flavored liquids. Lots of sweet, tender, spicy pork topped mostly with salsa, some chopped onions and cilantro, and a sprinkling of sesame seeds. Most of what you taste is meat, not really a marriage of meat-to-condiments. You may notice that my tacos look different from DiGregorio's; I guess they changed them up over the last week.
The beef bulgogi taco was less successful for lacking two things in the pork taco: juice and spiciness. Not that it was supposed to be spicy (although without the tingly hotness, it mostly tasted sweet); I just tend to prefer spicy to non-spicy. While there was a bit of meat juice, it didn't flow as freely as in the pork taco.
Seoul Station is still working out their tacos, it seems. Who knows; maybe they'll be different next week!
Seoul Station
81 St Marks Place, New York, NY 10003 (b/n 1st and 2nd; map)
212-979-9300
seoul-station.com
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4 Comments:
these look really good. can't believe i walked by without trying them last weekend!
foodinmouth at 10:15AM on 04/28/09
I saw this article and went last weekend, only to be dissapointed. Don't get me wrong, they were good - but they definately weren't as good as the Kogi ones. And yes the spicy pork ones at Seoul Station were so much better than the bulgogi ones, though the Kogi truck's galbi ones were to die for.
I'm going to try to recreate this at home and post the reciepe on my blog - I'll let you know how it turns out, but here is my blog in the meantime!
www.happilyeatingmywaythroughlife.blogspot.com
Happily Eating My Way Through Life at 8:55PM on 05/11/09
we were there last night and I had the pork tacos and my friend had a pork and a beef taco. We were both pretty unsatisfied. The tacos need at least 2 tortillas (like the mexican tacos) because there was too much juice. So essentially they fell apart. Additionally, although the pork one was nice and spicy, the fact that the taco and the condiments were totally cold didn't help. And they were pretty small in size. We also each had the veg pot stickers. Overall for more than $8.00, it was pretty unsatisfying, and hankering for something better after the meal.
sedela at 11:13AM on 06/17/09
Someone told me that Bann just started doing kalbi tacos for lunch... Has anyone heard about this yet?
jchoi2106 at 3:53PM on 07/18/09