Live Blog: Lamb Skewers at Gochiryu 꼬치루

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Darn. Darn. Darn. One of. My favorite places, Shim Yang, has an hour late and I have a hankering for lamb skewers. One of my friends suggested we head to Gangnam Station because he said he knew the original lamb place that Shim Yang stole the concept from.

Hmmm. So we found the place. It is down from the new exit 11 and then you make a right at Paris Baguette and go up the hill. It looks like a Chinese restaurant and it has a Chow Young-Fat feel to it.

Here the food has an nostalgic feel to it. It seems it is trapped in an 50′d Shanghai Movie and hasn’t adapted to modern tastes. The chilies are served with black bean sauce, the peanuts are sweet and the veggies are slippery.

The taste of the lamb redeems the place. It is rich and savory and dusted with herbs. I recommend you give it a try if Shim Yang is too full.

Dan

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Daniel

Daniel Gray is a Korean adoptee that returned to Korean in 2005 because he wanted to try and find his birth mother and to learn about Korean culture. He started a restaurant review blog in 2007, www.seouleats.com, that became a local and international hit. He and his blog has been featured in the New York Times, Monocle Magazine, The Kimchi Chronicles, Bizarre Foods, Rudy Maxa, Olive Magazine, Euronews and much more. He now is a partner at O’ngo Food Communications (www.ongofood.com), which is a culinary tourism and consulting company that offers Korean cooking classes and restaurant tours to travelers. Their food tours and cooking classes are ranked as one of the top attractions in Seoul according to tripadvisor.