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| Cho Sun Ok has all these pretty rocks around. I thought someone told me they were salt, but I may have been thinking of another restaurant. Kristina says they're just quartz. The easiest way to find out would be to lick one... |
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Hite, a Korean beer. Pretty light and crisp and not particularly strong as it had almost no effect on me.. |
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| The favorite dish at Cho SunOk is chadol-gui. The stone pan that is used to cook on your table is drizzled with oil and given a few minutes to heat up. |
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Meanwhile the side dishes start pouring in. Shredded green onions |
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Garlic and pickled onions |
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Soup |
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| Mandu dumpling appetizer |
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Then the beautiful chadol-gui beef arrives. |
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It should be quickly cooked on the grill. If you don't do it right, the waitresses will come and do it for you. |
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Pretty soon your table is chock full of food. |
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| When you're almost done and starting to slow down, that's when the waitresses swoop down and take over, mixing all the leftover side dishes with any remaining meat and kim-chi which they simmer and chop frantically using scissors (second picture). Then they add a layer of rice and let it cook in the juices. Minutes later they return and, in a blur, mix the rice and flatten it in the pan to allow the bottom to crisp before you dive in. |
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