Restaurant Review!
Gubbi l Aogae l Seoul
One of my favorite Korean dishes is pork spine soup. Its sounds awful but the spine has the most delicious meat and a good spicy broth that is wonderfully warming. I remember when I was a kid, my mom would be the martyr and eat all the ribs and bone attached pieces of meat. Then as I got older, I realized that these were the most succulent, flavorful cuts of meat and maybe she wasn’t doing me such a favor after all.
So, I was looking forward to Gubbi which was well known for its pork spine soup and seemed busy, especially at our early dinner time of 6 pm on a weeknight. We sat down and ordered a big pot to share and prepared ourselves for something fairly hearty.
Out came the huge pot, sitting on a burner and big enough to feed 4, crammed with meat and spicy broth. We dug in and were surprised by the blandness of the meal. The soup lacked complexity and the meat seemed listless. Mind you, it helps to be hungry and by the time we got to the end of the meal, the soup had gained some flavor from its long cooking and yielded a decent broth for our meal ending rice.
On the TV was one of my favorite Korean shows which I have dubbed, “Let’s randomly film things with a high speed camera.” Somehow they’ve crafted it into a game show and have shown a man slicing cucumbers by throwing playing cards, a house with a cat, dog and rooster, and bacon frying in a high temperature kiln. I hope Gubbi gets the message and realizes that unlike the TV show, pork spine soup should take its own sweet time.
Gubbi l Aogae l Seoul
One of my favorite Korean dishes is pork spine soup. Its sounds awful but the spine has the most delicious meat and a good spicy broth that is wonderfully warming. I remember when I was a kid, my mom would be the martyr and eat all the ribs and bone attached pieces of meat. Then as I got older, I realized that these were the most succulent, flavorful cuts of meat and maybe she wasn’t doing me such a favor after all.
So, I was looking forward to Gubbi which was well known for its pork spine soup and seemed busy, especially at our early dinner time of 6 pm on a weeknight. We sat down and ordered a big pot to share and prepared ourselves for something fairly hearty.
Out came the huge pot, sitting on a burner and big enough to feed 4, crammed with meat and spicy broth. We dug in and were surprised by the blandness of the meal. The soup lacked complexity and the meat seemed listless. Mind you, it helps to be hungry and by the time we got to the end of the meal, the soup had gained some flavor from its long cooking and yielded a decent broth for our meal ending rice.
On the TV was one of my favorite Korean shows which I have dubbed, “Let’s randomly film things with a high speed camera.” Somehow they’ve crafted it into a game show and have shown a man slicing cucumbers by throwing playing cards, a house with a cat, dog and rooster, and bacon frying in a high temperature kiln. I hope Gubbi gets the message and realizes that unlike the TV show, pork spine soup should take its own sweet time.
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