Arirang

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Dinner with Robyn and Jess at Arirang in K-town.

Pickled Daikon

Chinese hand-pulled noodles, I am very familiar with. But Korean hand-pulled (and knife-cut) noodles? This was a completely new world!

Tea

First, read Robyn's Serious Eats post on Arirang here. She offers a more detail on that post than I will here. I accompanied Robyn on her second visit, along with the very awesome Jess who speaks Korean fluently and helped tremendously with ordering ^_^

We shared one massive, MASSIVE bowl of seafood kar-jeabe and a seafood pancake...I'm a pretty big eater, and the three of us put together could barely finish both those dishes (granted, I had a slice of Artichoke pizza right before this o_O).

Pictured above is the seafood kar-jeabe...

...which has a mix of both torn noodles...

...and knife-cut noodles...like dumplings, minus the filling. Pretty awesome, huh?

Then we moved onto the seafood pancake, which was equally enormous. Super crispy surface, and chewy, almost mochi-esque innards strewn with cuttlefish and green onions.

Six huge triangular wedges to an order...cut and dip...

...into a vinegar-shoyu-chili sauce. Nomnom.

Arirang
32 West 32nd Street, 3rd Floor
New York NY 10001
212-967-5088