Entries tagged with 'Koreatown'
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For a fast, reliable lunch in the Herald Square area,
Woorijip has been my go-to spot for years. The food here may not be excellent, but it's always dependable.
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This is one you'll just want to toast and eat plain; no butter or jam, for it has plenty of flavor on its own.
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It's hard to duplicate the almost otherworldly experience of dining at a Korean food court without catching a plane to Seoul—but
Food Gallery 32, the new food court in the middle of Manhattan's Koreatown, is pretty otherworldly in its own right. That it's a fun place almost goes without saying—
but what about the food?
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Since
Food Gallery 32 doesn't have a website, online menus, or any easy online access point, here's our guide to each of the stalls—complete with menus. Enjoy!
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Going on a date always involves a gamble. Going on a date to a bi-level Korean BBQ restaurant involves a spin of the roulette wheel plus a roll of the dice plus a horse race. It could go well, the odds paying off as you impress one another with your chopstick skills and grilling techniques. It could not go well, and you might discover that your date can't pronounce "hunk yumso chungol" or, worse, finds goat meat chowder way too mainstream. Or you could accidentally set your date on fire.
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"Chicken like you've never had before" is a bold claim considering that Kyochon makes up one-third of the fried chicken trinity that's concentrated in a tight, one-block radius in K-Town. Diners can choose among Mad For Chicken, the former Bon Chon, the new Bon Chon and Kyochon, the chain that's often credited with creating the popular double-fried, sauce-lacquered style in 1991.
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Just before dawn on a Monday. [Photos: Zachary Feldman] Koreatown's stretch of 32nd Street between 5th and Broadway might just have the largest concentration of 24-hour restaurants in the city. (There are 12 in total.) A true late-night oasis, the...
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Left, Mad for Chicken; right, Kyochon. [Photos: Chichi Wang] Korean fried chicken (KFC? Is that taken?) is, in theory, a perfect dish. As the unbreaded chicken pieces cook, their skin renders its fat and forms a thin, crispy shell...
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[Photos: Chichi Wang] Koryodang, Inc is the sleekest of the bakeries on the densely packed block designated Koreatown in Manhattan on 32nd Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues. What exactly makes a bakery Korean? (Aside from the fact that...
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Living in Manhattan, you get accustomed to paying too much, for too little, very quickly. $4 iced coffees, $6 cups of gelato, $3.50 cupcakes... you get the idea. It was a shock when I first moved here from Hawai'i, but...
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