If you should find yourself on your way to Macy's, the Empire State Building, Penn Station or the eye doctor, make a slight detour to walk along 32nd Street between Broadway and Fifth Avenue to Koreatown, which features restaurants, grocery stores, supermarkets, bookstores, and electronics outlets
(Source: wikipedia.org)
along the strip officially named Korea Way.
More than 20,000 Koreans live in Manhattan (200,000 plus in the New York Metro area) and 100 businesses surround the main street, delivering hundreds of workers into the myriad restaurants and bakeries such as Tous Les Jours, French pastry with an Asian twist.
We sauntered in to a restaurant with a beautiful mural on the outside
and proceeded to have an excellent lunch at Muk Eun Ji and Son.
We noticed that Korean Bar-B-Q meals started at about $22/pp and go stratospherically high so we chose Bee Bim Bop, an old favorite. If you haven't tried it, you can walk into most restaurants and you will pay about $15/pp. First, they served us seven relish dishes plus egg drop soup
followed by two huge stone bowls of rice topped with meat and vegetables and a fried egg, all heated very hot.
(Source: koreataste.org)
What happens is that the rice on the bottom becomes crisp as you work your way down and you then chow down the crispy rice at the end. If you're fortunate, your server will be Ann who explained which Bee Bim Bop selections were very hot, hot, or my tolerance--totally bland.
I heard a rhythmic slapping at the back and deduced either pizza, puff pastry, noodles or bad plumbing. It turned out to be noodles made to your order.
Next time we will have noodles; they looked really good.
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