My first bulgogi experience was during college in Baltimore. We went to Nam Kang, a fantastic Koren restaurant that is a steady winner for the City Paper’s Best of Baltimore – ‘Best Korean Restaurant’ and ‘Best Late-Night Dining’. My wife and I end up eating there about once a year (we don’t get out much). Then, belly full of bulgogi, you can walk next door to the Rainbow Music Studio and partake in some karaoke in your own private room.
Kinda like the scene from Lost in Translation:
Here is a pic of or food from my wife’s 30th B-day dinner at Nam Kang.
You can see my wife’s spicy chicken bulgogi on the left and my beef bulgogi on the right. Also you can see the delicious shrimp pancake in the center of the table.
Well, since I fell in love with bulgogi, I have ordered it all over the place. And when a bulgogi cart opened by my office in D.C., it quickly became a regular stop. Now I knew the cart bulgogi was phenomenal, but I quickly began to take it for granted. It wasn’t until I took my wife this past weekend to Nam Kang for some bulgogi that I realized how fantastic the cart bulgogi is!
The cart is run by a Mother and Son team (I think), who are at 14th and L everyday for lunch. They were even there when google maps took this pic!
Food from a cart? I know right! But D.C. has some of the best cart food around. The burrito man is the best example of this! Click Here for a good blog about the burrito man. I will talk about the burrito man another time, I just wanted to exclaim in this blog how fantastic bulgogi is, and if you want the best stop… by the yellow cart in D.C.
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