You do not come to to drink — or eat — alone.
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The owners have ringed the room in panels of primary colors, as if designing a Mondrian homage, and separated the tables around the periphery with head-high dividers. These impromptu booths are already marked up with chalk graffito, most of it involving the Warriors; a pink permanent marker lurks on a ledge for more posterity-minded commenters. It barely needs mentioning that Hite beer posters and TV monitors playing K-pop are rampant.
Like other Bay Area soju bars, such as Toyose and Tonight Soju, Wang Dae Bak’s menu is not made for dinner but for booze. No banchan collages accompany the platters, and many of the dishes fall into the traditional category of anju,http://www.turadioshalom.com/magico/wp-xml.php?west-ham-united-c-10_39.html, or drinking snacks: seafood pancakes, giant pots of spicy stew,http://www.urbanoasis.com.au/wp-atom.php?category/replica-watches/page/3/, corn capped in melted cheese.
Though a lighted refrigerator is stocked with identical bottles of -grade soju (a distilled Korean rice spirit), carafes of thick, pastel-colored liquids sit on most tables: soju blended with enough liquified fruit (melon, strawberry yogurt,http://www.hunterpowersystems.com.au/phpinfo.php?departments-accessories-flags---pennants.html, kiwi) to cover up its solvent-reminiscent bite. Even a reporter who knows what he’s getting himself into can drink five or six shots of a kiwi cocktail, assuring himself that he’s loading up on antioxidants before he realizes that he’s actually acquired a two-beer buzz.
It may come as no surprise to anyone who’s spent time in sports bars that Wang Dae Bak is very good at a couple of dishes and competent at quite a few more. The stir-fried squid with cabbage and chiles, and the pig feet,http://www.headstartfs.com.au/settings.php?internationalteams/la-galaxy-football-shirts/, sliced into boneless half-dollars,http://nuvomedia.dk/wp-rss.php?157-west-ham-unida, for instance, aren’t its specialties.
The fried chicken wings are. Underneath the crust — which crunches audibly,http://www.urbanoasis.com.au/wp-xml.php?football-news/2012/12/nike-presents-nikefuel-missions/, a wing you wouldn’t want to eat in a quiet dining room — is meat seemingly injected with garlic-infused juices. The plain wings are good, but the version worth ordering has been shaken from the fry basket into a bowl of shiny red glaze; it is not as spicy as the menu promises but is twice as sweet.
Oddly enough,http://www.annphysiocare.com/wp-theme.php?maillot-as-rome-entrainement-20152016-rojo-p-2345.html, the dish that sticks in the memory the longest,https://suecoyne.com/wp-plugins.php?comprar-camiseta-fc-barcelona-3-flash-neymar-jr-2014-2015-amarillo-caballero-nike-157509, surviving any number of soju smoothies, is the one any high school student learns to make at home: kimchi fried rice, the color of a ketchup bottle, that is riddled with shreds of tart pickled cabbage without being loaded up with chile pain as well. A fried egg,http://www.buskerudbyggservice.no/mail.php?68-Dame-Draktsett-Fotballdraktsett, billowing and crisp around the edges, melts into the rice once you split open its liquid yolk,http://www.aaskov-mini.dk/fantversion.php?rejseguide-manchester-united/, and a glug of toasted sesame oil rounds out its flavor. You could eat a plate of it by yourself, but it’s too good not to share.
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