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i will add more love for bibimbap (you must get it with the fried egg).

and the pancakes are pretty filling and tasty for an appetizer.

KBZ, there is a decent Korean place at Prospect and Broadway.

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kimchi - never get tired of eating it. Has to be one of the best side dishes.

mmmm Fermented cabbage with chilli

It's wiki entry quotes "Kimchi was profiled by Health Magazine as one of the world's five "healthiest foods" for being rich in vitamins, aiding in digestion, and even possibly preventing cancer."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimchi

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cbloom,

The most popular Korean BBQ in SF is Brother's, on Geary out in the Avenues. It can get pretty crowded. There used to be a second branch a block or two away, not sure if that's still there. Right in the same area is my favorite, King Charcoal. As an added bonus, it's open super late, 'til 4am.

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One of my favorite Korean foods is jajungmyun: noodles in a rich, dark sauce with onions, meat, and bean paste. Jajungmyun isn't usually served in Korean BBQ places; you have to go to a Korean noodle place or a Korean-Chinese restaurant to get it.

Korean grocery stores also sell ramen-style mixes ("Chapaghetti") which are not bad if you add the other ingredients.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...a13e9dbbb3.jpg

Jajungmyun Wikipedia article

Jajungmyun is cheap. I'm told that it's the correct dinner to buy for a Korean girlfriend just before breaking up.

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jja-jung-myun is very delicious and very inexpensive, usually around 6-7 bucks for the meal. It is a simple dish. Like many simple dishes, restaurants can either make it very well, or horribly. The bad ones will be oily, bland, and with very hard overcooked noodles. The better ones will have lots of meat and veggies in the sauce with noodles that don't stick.

I believe we stole this dish from the Chinese. Much like udon.

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yes, Koreana. any others you suggest?

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I eat korean 3-4times a week next time I'll go i'll get some photos of some of the stuff I like. I'm not sure of English names but I will try to translate what I can find or get the Korean names. My favourites are the spicy soups with very soft beef stomach and fish. The other dish is a hot rock pot with rice and stuff.

And ofcourse the bbq beef is good, important to get the good quality beef.

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kahlbi was by far my favorite from my time in korea. There you sit outside around a little grill on your table and cook the meat to your liking, with garlic, peppers, onions, etc, get a piece of lettuce, load it up with rice, veggies, meat and stuff it in. delicious. I also liked the spicy rice cakes a lot, and some of the chicken BBQ. Kimchee, and kimbob were both awful, IMO.

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The spicy broth soups in this thread look really awesome; I'm always looking for good asian soups and had no idea the Koreans had so much to contribute. I think I'll keep getting my Udon from the Japanese though.

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soon doo bu is a draft tofu stew thats available in seafood and beef variants. done poorly, it tastes like ramen. done well, its the most hearty, soul-warming, life-affirming antidote of all time for a chilly day.

if you like the spicy soup thing, most decent places will typically do a good yukhaejang (yook-hay-jang), which is a spicy beef broth with a nice helping of brisket meat in it.