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On The Bab, restaurant review: Korean street dishes for hip diners ...
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If you were inventing a restaurant to promote London's scene it would, surely, be this: Korean street food in Hoxton.
The other drink that's popular is So Maek, which is a beer-and-spirit combo in a metal beaker – Mr M is bemused by it, but not hammered: soju is lighter than your average, or even artisan, gin or vodka.
The yangyum (small size, £11.90) is a heap of misshapes with crushed peanuts and either soy garlic or sweet spicy sauce and shredded cabbage and radish pickle.
Craftily, brilliantly, you can get this "half and half", the two sauces proving as addictive as each other.
Mr M is steadfastly working through his bibimbab, a rice-and-vegetable pot spiked with that piquant gochujang sauce and with spicy pork (or bulgogi beef, tender marinated strips) but it's a bit less zingy and more stomach-liner, if we're honest.
Anna, Look!: RESTAURANT REVIEW: On the Bab (Shoreditch)
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And The Table Cafe, one such restaurant which operated on the no-booking policy, proved to be a complete disappointment.
Korean food is one of my favourite cuisines, and some of my favourite restaurants in London are delightful Korean places which offer fantastic value for money (there is a fantastic cluster of such restaurants around Tottenham Court Road, offering a much more palatable alternative to the over-baked American diners that are littered around the capital).
On the Bab, which has chains in Shoreditch, Covent Garden and Marylebone, is another such place.
Practically everybody in On the Bab had a 'Yangyum chicken' on their table, which was, no hyperbole, the best fried chicken I've ever had.
But I'll allow On the Bab his shortcoming and not let it detract from their Perfect A grade, because, in terms of dining experiences in London, this is one of the best places I've had the good fortune of visiting.
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On The Dak | London Restaurant Reviews | DesignMyNight
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Based in Covent Garden, this Asian-inspired restaurant is the ultimate destination for Korean chicken.
Offering all manner of chicken-based dishes, from noodles to soups and much more, the aim behind On The Dak was to unite all Lee's favourite chicken dishes under one roof.
The menu offers an eclectic range of poultry plates, such as the Chitang, a flavoursome chicken noodle soup, and the Chibun, a dish of spicy Korean barbecued or fried chicken with cabbage.
There will also be a Chibab, comprised of chicken, rice and salad, which also comes in vegetarian variety substituted with mushrooms and house soy.
Coming in four different flavours, including sweet soy, the fired chicken is available in small, medium and large portions, with two levels of spice.
On The Bab, restaurant review: Korean street dishes for hip diners ...
food menu drinks
If you were inventing a restaurant to promote London's scene it would, surely, be this: Korean street food in Hoxton.
The other drink that's popular is So Maek, which is a beer-and-spirit combo in a metal beaker – Mr M is bemused by it, but not hammered: soju is lighter than your average, or even artisan, gin or vodka.
The yangyum (small size, £11.90) is a heap of misshapes with crushed peanuts and either soy garlic or sweet spicy sauce and shredded cabbage and radish pickle.
Craftily, brilliantly, you can get this "half and half", the two sauces proving as addictive as each other.
Mr M is steadfastly working through his bibimbab, a rice-and-vegetable pot spiked with that piquant gochujang sauce and with spicy pork (or bulgogi beef, tender marinated strips) but it's a bit less zingy and more stomach-liner, if we're honest.
On The Bab Marylebone, review: If fried chicken and beer is a ...
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On the bab are keen for you to be on a lot of things – including their cocktail list.
These purveyors of Korean street food serve food to drink to – part of an actual tradition called “anju”, we haven’t made this up.
Cocktails are soju-centric, made with the Korean spirit that is one of the most consumed in the world, which you can also go solo with.
Pick what you fancy – from bulgogi beef to spicy pork – and put it on top of sticky Korean rice (the “bab”), fluffy rice buns, a sushi rice roll or noodle soup.
Alongside your carb of choice, don’t forget to add a portion of Yangyum fried chicken to your order.
On The Bab Shoreditch, review: If fried chicken and beer is a ...
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On the bab are keen for you to be on a lot of things – including their cocktail list.
These purveyors of Korean street food serve food to drink to – part of an actual tradition called “anju”, we haven’t made this up.
Cocktails are soju-centric, made with the Korean spirit that is one of the most consumed in the world, which you can also go solo with.
Pick what you fancy – from bulgogi beef to spicy pork – and put it on top of sticky Korean rice (the “bab”), fluffy rice buns, a sushi rice roll or noodle soup.
Alongside your carb of choice, don’t forget to add a portion of Yangyum fried chicken to your order.
On the Bab | Restaurants in Shoreditch, London
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It might sound like a fitting end to a night on the lash, but ‘on the bab’ has nothing to do with picking up something from a kebab shop.
Instead, it refers to the Korean word for rice – bab, or bap – and there’s plenty of it on this menu.
Jumping on the Korean fast food trend currently doing the rounds on London’s street food scene, the menu here features Korean-style fried chicken in spicy sauce and steamed, meat-stuffed buns.
Our Korean fried chicken sprinkled with chopped peanuts was fine, though they do this dish better around the corner at Jubo.
But we still prefer On the Bab’s more sophisticated central London sibling Koba.