I’ve been commuting to DC now for over 4 years! Yes, 4 years of a 3hr. round trip commute. When I started working in DC at our old office I took the train. After the first year I became an expert at catching the train sleeping and then skateboarding to our office in record time. Now my preferred method is driving to DC’s city limits with my bike in the trunk. I park in a residential area and ride my bike to the office.
The last time I went to cart after waiting in an unusually long line a lady came up to me and asked me about the different options. After I explained the intricacies of the cart she told me she read about the cart on yelp and they where the highest rated vendor in the area. So I went back to the office to check out the cart’s yelp page and indeed they are blowing up.
I recently went to the cart with one of my friends who writes for We Love DC. She was helping out with a post about the stellar food carts in DC. Check out the back of my head in the bulgogi cart pic.
Anyway, I liked introducing the cart to people and in those first couple of months being one of the few frequent visitors but now I guess have to share…
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.
