Korean food is one of the least familiar Asian cuisines for me personally. I’m more well-versed in Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese and even Malaysian food than I am with Korean. If that’s true for me, it’s probably true for other people out there as well.
Reading about 60 dishes is a great start, but eating them is better. Our NYC Korean Street Food Guide narrows this down to the street food formats you can actually find on a New York corner: corn dogs, tteokbokki, kimbap, bungeoppang, hotteok, and odeng, with twelve vendors mapped across Flushing and K-Town.
LA Weekly recently had an article written by Jonathan Gold entitled “60 Korean Dishes Every Angeleno Should Know”. Even though he talks about specific dishes at specific restaurants in LA, there’s enough of a description of each that it can be used to learn about Korean cuisine in private, instead of in a restaurant with everyone waiting for you to order.
If you really want to learn about Korean cuisine, maybe read about 5-10 dishes at a time, then read them again later or the next day. You’ll be an expert in no time.
Click here for the full article. There are some great photos by Anne Fishbein as well.
FAQ
Q: What street-format Korean dishes can you actually find in NYC?
A: Corn dogs, tteokbokki, kimbap, bungeoppang, hotteok, and odeng, mapped across twelve vendors in Flushing and Manhattan’s K-Town in NYSF’s Korean Street Food Guide.
Q: Where does the “60 Korean Dishes” list referenced in this post come from?
A: LA Weekly, in an article by Jonathan Gold titled “60 Korean Dishes Every Angeleno Should Know,” describing dishes at specific Los Angeles restaurants.
Q: Is this post about NYC or LA Korean food?
A: Both. It points to an LA-focused primer for broader Korean cuisine education, while linking to NYSF’s own NYC-specific guide for where to actually find these dishes as street food in New York.
