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By 👻 @Lindsey A, 01/15/2017 3:00 am
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I used to live next door to Cho Sun Ok. Sure, it's not rated the best in the city, but it was authentic and without pretense. The food was outstanding when I visited, but, a bonus (and hindrance) the decadent smells of garlic-laden, barbecued meats would often waft into our apartment. I liked that place.
I've been to a few other Korean BBQ spots in Chicago since my Berteau years. A mainstream joint downtown and now Gogi on the near Northwest. I can't say I liked my Gogi experience that much. Or, I can at least say I'd likely not visit again.
We arrived promptly when they opened at 4:30 p.m. (on a Saturday.) I had been wanting ramen, but pregnant wife wanted Korean BBQ. If you or your partner is pregnant, you just go with what the pregnant lady wants. So, BBQ it was. (And, I really wanted banchan so it worked out perfectly.)
But it didn't. Despite being one of three tables present, our waitress served like she had never served in her life - hurried, anxious, worried - but highly absent. I ordered the king prawns and my other-and-a-half ordered the bulgogi. We got banchan and rice. If you don't like spice, don't get the banchan. It was all laden with chili sauce (which, I loved, but my counterpart didn't.)
The prawns were gross. They were plain - no seasoning, no sauce, no flavor other than mud. I can handle some head-on shrimp, whatever, but these were vein-full and in need of a marinade or seven. Our waitress brought them out, didn't explain ANYTHING to us, put them on our little table-top grill and walked off. Uhm.... how long do I need to have these on before I flip? How long total do I cook? What's the protocol? She came back a few minutes later and flipped them for us - without a word.
They ended up so overcooked I could barely get the shells off. My hands were coated with charcoal, shrimp poop and crustacean legs. They were disgusting. And my only saving grace was the garlic butter that had been placed in a tiny pot next to the shrimp - was I to dip my shrimp in this? I did. But it didn't change anything.
Plain white rice. Chili-spiced banchan (there was no other flavor but chili.) I guess the bulgogi was good, my wife said, but it looked like a giant puddle of goo.
However. Is this authentic? Should I have been happy with this plain-jane showing of food that we didn't get the chance to cook ourselves? (But really, really should have.)
I'm disappointed with the lack of communication from our server. Lack of flavor for most of the meal. Extremely high prices (for what it was -- shrimp was $25 and bulgogi was $22. Menu said chardonnay was $9 a glass, and I had three, which came out to $33?????) And for smelling like I had put my own body on the grill. (Pro tip: Don't take your coat inside, leave it in your car. Super happy we did. But your hair, clothes and skin WILL smell like BBQ when you leave.)
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