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I would like to strongly recommend Jin Seng in the Manhattan Hotel on Soi 15, Suk.
I have tried Jang Won and a couple of others in the "Korean Plaza" across Sukhumvit, and Jin Seng is by far my favorite. The quality of all their food is noticeably a notch up. And I have eaten a lot of Korean food over the years as I have been something of Korean serial dater in NYC. Korean girls, like TGs, love to eat their own food. 
The place caters to groups, in the sense that the place is divided into semiprivate booths of six people, with a couple of larger tables, and separate room for larger parties. And Korean food, the BBQ kalbi in particular is meant to be enjoyed in a group. But I have gone their several times alone or with a TG or two, with equally good results. The place is clean, the cute TGs who work there are extremely attentive, and the price is very reasonable.
I love their version of the "dolsot" bibimbap (served in a hot "stone pot"). Just the thing to fortify you for a night of drinking. And the side dishes are all unusually good. Great place.
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 6:25 am on Jan. 19, 2010
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Ballsburstin
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Quim,
Thanks for the headsup, dolsot beebimbop is perhaps my favorite Korean dish. Lived with a Korean lady for 10 years (a great cook btw) and got spoiled by her food and the great Korean restaurants we frequented Stateside. So I will definitely try Jin Seng next time town. Never occurred to me to look for is, as I didn't expect to find high quality beebimbop for some reason...
- Balls
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Bangkok Women : Meet Sensual Bangkok Women
Posted on: 2:06 pm on Jan. 19, 2010
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PussyLover 69
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Report from Bangkok Post dated 26 August 2011 :-
Casual Korean kitchen - A distinctly relaxing dining experience geared to lunch
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Sometimes you just don't know what you've been missing out on until you've had it. Well, that's exactly what happened to me after we decided to visit the newly opened Tudari restaurant a few days ago.
Here in Bangkok, where diners can find almost any type of cuisine from around the world, traditional Korean restaurants _ where the tabletop barbecue is the specialty _ are among the most abundant establishments around. And while there are plenty of cutting-edge Japanese sushi joints, oh-so-modern Chinese restaurants and uber-chic Italian restaurants throughout the city, there are very few casual Korean eateries.
Opened a few months ago to offer local diners more restaurant choices while also catering to fans of K-pop culture, Tudari is a modern Korean restaurant co-owned by a Korea-based company and Thai proprietors.
The two branches in Thailand, one in Thong Lor Soi 13 and the other at Siam Paragon, are among more than 2,000 outlets worldwide.
Recently, we stopped by the restaurant at Siam Paragon for a quick lunch on a weekday. As first-time customers to Tudari, everything seemed tempting, from the mouth-watering plastic food models displayed at the restaurant's front entrance to the fully-illustrated picture menus and prices _ a good deal considering the portions they served.
Our lunch started off with the Combi Set (300 baht). The appetiser platter, ideal for a party of two or more to share, featured an assortment of Korean-style grilled meat on skewers, similar to yakitori. But what made these skewers different from the Japanese counterpart was the sauce. The Japanese-style skewers involves modestly seasoning the meat with either soy sauce or salt, while the Korean-style skewers the meat is thoroughly leavened with ingredients to give it a sweet, pungent glaze.
The eight skewers, which we found fairly satisfying, included grilled chicken with leeks, spicy chicken wings, spicy cubes of chicken filet, winter mushroom roll wrapped in bacon, cheese-bacon roll, potato roll, tok wanja (seasoned minced chicken and vegetable patties), and sevo wanja (prawn cake topped with cheese).
Following the skewered treats was the dolsot bibimbap, a traditional Korean mixed rice dish served in a hot stone pot. The dish came with choice of pork or beef, on which we settled for the latter (280 baht).
Accompanied by a clear seaweed soup, the photogenic dish presented a decent serving of warm rice topped with eight ingredients, including sauteed beef, bean sprouts, mushrooms, spinach, finely sliced omelette, carrots, and raw egg yolk. All the elements are then mixed together with gochujang (a savoury and pungent fermented Korean sauce) in a hot stone bowl to allow them to slightly cook against the side of the container, as well as for the rice to get a nice crunchy texture to it. Though flavoursome, after just a few bites, I couldn't say that I was particularly impressed by the overall quality of the dish.
The rather naive meal got more piquant with an order of seafood topokki (290 baht), another of the restaurant's most popular items. On a large, sizzling metal pan and in a reddish sea of sweet and spicy Korean chilli sauce, presented us with gummy soft Korean rice cakes filled with mussels, squid and prawns. This flavourful dish lent a mild and creamy touch thanks to the melted mozzarella that was showered on top. Enjoyed the same way one usually does when eating noodles, this gooey rice cake proved to be a nice treat.
As soon as the spicy oden soup (250 baht) was served, we knew our tongues were in for a real challenge. Looking like hot magma ready to erupt from a volcano, the orange-coloured chilli soup served in a hot stone pot bubbled so fiercely that a thick layer of froth totally covered the mushrooms, leeks, chillies and fish balls underneath.
It was so hot we had to wait a few minutes for the soup to cool down before we could try it. This fiery salty soup, in which chopped Thai garden chillies were infused to add a more peppery zing, was deliciously addictive. Besides, it went very nicely with the delicate fish balls. We would have finished it all in a second had the soup been a little less spicy.
The desserts on offer were Sweet Potato Ice Cream (80 baht) and Honey Bread (160 baht). Although they both sounded inviting, we had to rush off (busy schedule) and sadly did not get to try them.
Check out the photos at :-
http://www.bangkokpost.com/food/features/253542/casual-korean-kitchen
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 10:48 am on Aug. 28, 2011
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atl
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my go to Korean spot is on soi 23 above chok chai steak house! It is good and you can bring your own bottle of wine!
atl
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Sexy Bangkok Girls
Posted on: 7:15 pm on Aug. 28, 2011
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PussyLover 69
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Report from Bangkok Post dated 20 April 2012 :-
Jeong Won Korean Restaurant
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Opened at the beginning of 2011, Jeong Won may be regarded as a new face in the city's restaurant scene. But this Korean eatery, with capacity to seat 150 diners in its first and second-floor dining halls and five private rooms, is no trivial player in the industry - judging from its size and success.
A passionate venture by a Korean food connoisseur and her Thai restaurateur partner, Jeong Won has enjoyed good public acceptance from almost day one of opening.
The restaurant has constantly welcomed a number of famous personalities including Korean superstar Lee Min Ho and many of the local big names.
To go with the scale of the place, the menu of Jeong Won is impressively large with more than 100 dishes in various categories including traditional salad, soup and stew, rice and noodle, barbecue items and house specialties. Meanwhile, the restaurant also highlights a wide variety of Japanese fare, so it means that the Korean tabletop barbecue can be enjoyed not only in a conventional way with banchan (Korean-style side dishes) but also alternatively with platters of fresh sushi and sashimi as well as many Nippon delicacies.
Korean tabletop barbecue with spicy marinated pork, top-graded sirloin, marinated bone-in beef short ribs and complementary assortment of side dishes.
As soon as our party of six finished placing our orders (that, of course, had included a selection of raw meat for our DIY grilling ecstasy), a seasonal assortment of small side dishes and fresh vegetables was set on the table, followed by the installation of a portable stove containing red-hot charcoals, on top of which a chrome grilling screen was placed.
Our choices of barbecue meat that evening were sut dwaeji bulgogi, or spicy marinated pork (280 baht), top-graded deung shim, or Australian sirloin (550 baht), and yang nyeom galbi, or marinated bone-in beef short ribs (380 baht). All proved to be of good quality and flavour.
Even though it's do-it-yourself dining, there are waitresses standing by to help cut and grill for diners to ensure that the meat is neither undercooked nor overcooked.
From a selection of a la carte Korean dishes, I was very much impressed with the restaurant's best-selling gujeolpan (350 baht). Meaning a platter divided into nine sections, gujeolpan (pronounced "koo-jol-paan") is an ancient delicacy that represents the colourful abundance of Korea's nature.
At Jeong Won, the dish, which is considered one of the country's most aesthetic treats, presented thin, soft and clingy steamed wheat pancakes to be wrapped around six fillings, namely egg yolk and egg white (paper-thin strips), cucumbers, carrots and shiitake mushrooms (in fine slices) and shredded seasoned pork. Eaten as a loose spring roll, this tiny-size delicacy promises a subtle taste as well as an awesome texture.
Rice casserole in hot stone bowl with assorted vegetables, shiitake mushrooms, pork and fried egg.
Fiery yet truly addictive was kimchi jiigae, or kimchi soup (180 baht). Comparable to Thai gaeng som (sour and spicy orange-coloured soup), the Korean-style hot pot was prepared with well-fermented vegetables, succulent chunks of pork belly and tofu and served bubbling hot.
We also sampled ja jang myeon (180 baht), a Korean street-style noodle dish which has recently gained popularity in the Land of Smiles after it was featured in a local box-office hit, but it failed to thrill us.
Dol sot bibimbap (180 baht), or rice casserole with assorted vegetables, shiitake mushrooms, thinly sliced pork and fried egg, was, on the other hand, magnificent. All the ingredients were displayed neatly in a blazing-hot stone bowl and to be mixed together with or without the chilli pepper paste that came on the side to form a super-tasty fried rice-like dish.
From the Japanese kitchen, Jeong Won proudly presented its sushi sandwich (280 baht). Featuring spicy tuna and chopped raw salmon stuffed between layers of seaweed and sushi rice coated with tempura batter and shrimp roe, this Nippon sandwich was much-loved by both child and grown-ups at our table.
The restaurant has a collection of desserts on offer including Korean pot bing su, or shaved ice with a medley of toppings (120 baht), banana fritters (160 baht) and homemade ice cream and sorbet (80 baht).
Location : Jeong Won
Crystal Design Center ( CDC), Phase 2
L3 Building, ground Floor
Praditmanutham Road
Call 02-102-2366
Open daily from 11 am to 10 pm
Park at CDC's carpark
Link : http://www.bangkokpost.com/food/features/289584/wide-variety-makes-won-a-winner
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 9:31 pm on April 19, 2012
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PussyLover 69
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Report from Korea Herald, ANN dated 23 April 2012 :-
Korean food gets ‘C’ in test of public opinion
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Korean food has been graded "C" among international cuisine, despite the government's efforts to promote its cuisine worldwide, according to the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on Sunday.
Citing a survey of 593 people in five countries on 12 national foods, Korean food got only 73.2 points out of 100 in terms of taste, look, price and service. It ranked seventh in the ministry's global food index, followed by Turkey, Malaysia and Vietnam.
Italian and Japanese dishes were the most popular among the surveyed, receiving As with 80.1 and 78.3 points, respectively, the ministry noted.
Meanwhile, Spanish, French, Chinese and Thai cuisine received Bs.
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Bangkok Women : Meet Beautiful Thai Girls
Posted on: 3:49 am on April 23, 2012
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