On The Bab

On The Bab

ON THE BAB - KOREAN STREET FOOD

http://www.onthebab.com

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On the Bab - Covent Garden

36 Wellington Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 7BD +44 (0)20 7240 5568 [email protected] Follow us on Twitter Please be aware that we do not take reservations.

Please call us or e-mail us to enquire about tables for over 8 people at On The Bab Covent Garden.

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On the Bab - Shoreditch

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On The Bab, restaurant review: Korean street dishes for hip diners ...

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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 | Restaurants in Shoreditch, London

Review analysis
food  

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.

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