Pyung Chang Restaurante

I have only eaten here twice, several years apart. But I spent the intervening years fantasizing about going back. Their food is SOOOO good. Oh my god. I don't know what they do; I just get these things full of vegetarian tofu hot goodness and it fills my belly in the exact right way and afterward I feel so satisfied inside. I would eat there every night, happily. And I do love the array of little crunchies beforehand, and I love that they come to crack the crispy rice crust out of the iron pot for you, and I love everything. I am so happy there. more

Since this was the first place I ever had Korean food, I'll forever be biased towards this restaurant. Korean is definitely the kind of comfort food that forges strong emotional attachments. At the Pyung Chang Soft Tofu House, they lay all those little dishes of who knows what out on the table which is always sooo exciting to get stuff you didn't order. Don't be discouraged by the name of the restaurant, they do fantastic soft tofu, but not to the exclusion of meat proteins. My favorite are the rice dishes that come in the searing hot iron bowls. When the waitress comes back around and scrapes the now toasted rice off the side of the bowl and suddenly you have all these rice crackers, as culinary surprises go, that's pretty cool... more