Example: king crab kimchi.
Recommended dishes -- Rock shrimp tempura, monkfish liver, honey glazed sesame spareribs, king crab kimchi, satay chicken, Chilean sea bass, caramelized jumbo prawns, roasted moulard duck breast, various sushi and sashimi, ice creams and sorbets.
Try the kimchi crab cakes, the seafood pancake, beef carpaccio and Bulgogi steak.
Golden Korean, a neighboring strip-mall purveyor of bulgogi and kimchi, sells crab Rangoon purses by the half-dozen and cashew sauce by the pint.
The Polynesian-Asian menu includes shrimp toast with house-pickled kimchi; blue crab claws; Kahlúa pork; and pineapple upside-down-cake.
More courses came — broiled eel and broths and a greasy red kimchi pancake and, finally, crab claws covered in a sticky glaze, lustrous as a ceramic sculpture by Jeff Koons.
More courses came broiled eel and broths and a greasy red kimchi pancake and, finally, crab claws covered in a sticky glaze, lustrous as a ceramic sculpture by Jeff Koons.
There was barley rice, raw crab in soy sauce, sweet potato root, radishes, kimchi, sweet pumpkin soup, a kimchi pancake dotted with squid, whole grilled fish and honey-filled dduk (a pounded-rice confection).
This piece of advice always feels a little bossy, and it also makes for difficult ordering: how can you insure a well-balanced meal when kimchi and a whole stone crab are presented as equivalents?
So was the thin orange glaze that lacquered a whole roasted duck leg ($23), the combination of chicken liver and pickled red cabbage on toast ($10), and a crunchy soft-shell crab served with a thin purée of kimchi and a thick garlic mayonnaise to swirl together ($14).
In mid-2013, Gill opened the Dairy and, while his exhilarating take on the modern bistro is certainly seasonal and British (his menu features herbs, veg and even honey from the rooftop garden), the likes of "chicken oyster, crispy skin, cellar kimchi, burnt kale" and "Cornish crab, pear, cavolo nero, chestnut" are anything but traditional.
