Korean BBQ

This weekend we went to not 1, but 2 new Korean BBQ places! The first one we went to on Friday night was Park's BBQ. We went there with Ally and ordered 3 plates of beef...the Kobe beef, the Galbi, and the Bulgogi. It was expensive, but delicious meat. They gave nice side dishes [banchan] too, Ally loved the several types of kimchee, and Lawrence enjoyed the raw crabs. We had to wait a while, but it was not overly smoky. They didn't have all-you-can-eat, and the waitress cooked the meat on your grill for you. The portions were pretty good. We didn't get overly stuffed which is a nice change.

Sunday night we went with Phillip to Soot Bull Guirim II. The wait wasn't too long, but the place was smoky as hell! I think it was a combination of their vents not working and the cooking generating massive amounts of smoke, because at Park's we didn't have nearly as much smoke coming off the grill. I liked the style of Korean BBQ there better - they give you salad and rice paper there. In addition to the bean paste, they also gave a spicy sauce. The combination of bbq meat with seasoned lettuce, bean paste, spicy sauce, the sesame oil/salt dip, grilled slices of garlic, all wrapped up in a sheet of rice paper...was so good! The food is all-you-can-eat. You get to order 1 meat per person at a time. They were pretty good about asking us what we wanted as soon as we finished off our plates of meat. After the initial large plateful, the portions got a little smaller. We joked about it but agreed that it was a good idea. We didn't get overly stuffed here either, even for being an AYCE bbq place.