Korea House is a great place to have a birthday celebration. The best thing to do is sit at the barbecue tables. We ordered some kind of beef and cooked it up with jalapenoes and garlic. They bring out lettuce leaves and rice and salty bean paste so that you can make a Korean taco. It's really good. The best part is all the little bowls of kim chee, various salads, and dried fish that they bring out. They have new menus there and I got really excited to continue my quest to eat all the sausages of the world and attempted to order the Korean sausage. The server's face fell and she said no. When asked to explain she said "they make it with the blood". That sounded ominous but I vow to brave it another time. We got the scallion pancake instead and it was fluffy, steaming hot, and soft with just a hint of egg flavor and a salty dipping sauce. I ate tons. They also have cheap beer, soju, and sake. What more could you ask?
Another great thing is that after you stuff yourself at Korea House you can saunter or waddle about ten feet to your right in the strip mall and you are at Rurulala, an establishment that rents private karaoke rooms. If you have never karaoked in a private room then you haven't really karaoked. And unlike a karaoke room I went to in Japantown, this place sold alcohol, which is nuts. They have big Hite beers for six bucks or soju or some crazy liquor that GW and JG were drinking out of a teapot that seemed to be very strong. We karaoked for over three hours but it flew by like crazy! And it came to less than ten bucks a person, minus the alcohol. I highly recommend this.
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That sounds pretty fun. Is the idea of the private room supposed to make people feel better about karaoking because they are with a friendly audience? Is that place in Sac?
-Dave
P.S. Woah, "Rurulala" is the Word Verification word that Blogger is making me type to post this post! Randomly generated?! Hmmm ...
The private room just makes it more fun because you can all sing together and fuck around without being embarrassed. It's on Folsom, right next to Korea House (9721 folsom blvd). It's pretty close to downtown, you just take 50 to Bradshaw and you're there. And the place stays open super super late.
Meat, beer, and caterwauling.
It was a great night.
Thanks for being born Grace.
-natalie
Becky, you gotta try the sausage. Well, I don't know if it'll be the same exact kind, but the awesome Korean restaurant here in (east) Providence has the best sausage!! And the dude tried to warn me off of it too, by telling me about the blood. But lots of sausages are made with blood, so it's really not that crazy. Anyway, it was delish. As was the Chinese sausage that appeared in my dim sum favorite this weekend, sausage and pork wrapped in sticky rice wrapped in lotus leaf.
Man that Karoake sounds fun!
-michele
I too, do not know what was in the tea pot because I got that brilliant idea after the Hennessey. But that place is the best and I am so happy Grace was born too! ~JG
Korean BBQ is Awesome.It is so sorry that japanese cuisine overshadows korean cuisine in Sacto.In Japan we`re having a Korean Fade going on..Korean Soap Opreas are a buzz and obasan(old ladies) travel over there alot to see where korean movie stars live.In Pusan a large 2 liter hite bottle are about a buck-fifty.When ya exchange your usa money ya get armload of won.10,000 won is the highest bill which is maybe $7.00 or so.Street Vendors sell warm cooked crickets and kids snack on em` during the day.There are also little coffee street vendors that make pancakes and strong korean coffee for like .80 cents.I couldn`t count in korean so i always handed the 5,000 won bill to the person and ended up with large amounts of change.Karoke machines were 10 won less than 7 cents for a song.Ya stuff yourself in this sit down arcade like machine with only room for two and a two liter hite.Around 10,000 won you probably sang every english song tried a couple of korean ones and on your 3rd hite.Rahmon(ramen places where kill with pork katsu for 3,500 won or ramen with kim chee--all you can eat kim chee for 1,000 won.The ramen places we`re amazing red colored franchise.But once i ordered a chicken soup and watched the cook kill a chicken on the dirty street.Hostels are cheap at around $10 to $15 a night with discounts if ya stay longer.Did they have Sojo at the Korean Place?Soju is dangerous...old people drink it so much and if they drank why too much they will hide it under your shirt.But you will forget it`s under your shirt and drop and break the bottle.But you`ll buy more cause it`s only 80 won.When ya get really drunk ya stumble into the fried chicken places.They only serve spicy chicken with beer and corn snacks.The have chickens on there signs and usually soccer fans in them.I just put a korean indie pop song on my website...it jangily..by sisters barbershop..
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jay
I totally want to go to Korea!!!! I am planning to eat at all the restaurants in that little Koreatown off Bradshaw and I want to find a good Korean market out there. Oto's on Freeport has some Korean stuff. We just got some good turnip kimchee there.
That stuff in the teapot that they were drinking at rurulala was lemon soju. It sounds dangerous because GW said it didn't taste strong.
granted i'm a light wait, but i had about four small cups of that lemon soju when i went to rurulala and wound up totally trashed. i even had a hang over the next day which made me feel like a total retard.
I highly reccomend the Seoul Restraunt on 9336 La Riviera near Folsom Blv.(behind the Shell station). The appetizers that they serve before the meal could be a meal in itself, and they keep them refilled. They also serve this delicious tea made from Solomons Seal root.
Also, there's a great Korean grocery store across the street with lots of great stuff. You can buy large bags of dried Shitake Mushrooms for only $7, they're totally killer for making ramen/udon soup. One time I found a Hello-Kitty toaster that imprinted the kitty's face on the toast. It still works after 5 years, my ex-girlie still has it.
Larry
thanks for the tip, larry, i'm going to go there for sure!
i love that Alice is a lite "wait".
yep, there's a great Korean grocery out there next to the grocery outlet. they've got cheap kim-chi refrigerators (cause i know you need one), tons of Russian stock (cause that makes sense) and some kind of crazy discount card where you win free gifts (cause that's rad).
and it's just one of 100 reasons i can come up with to got once again to Rulala.
did you guys get the tons of complimentary tambourines?
we slept on the tambourine action. next time.
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