Arang Korean/Sushi Buffet
I just wanted to say a quick thank you for all the emails I’ve gotten, many of them with some great suggestions. A lot of those suggestions urge me to branch out farther and farther from the places I have already reviewed. 9th avenue, the high 30s, Koreatown. Someone even suggested I go to Chinatown if I wanted “real authentic Chinese food“. Apparently she didn’t fully grasp the meaning of my blog’s very complex title. It is very confusing…
I kid, I kid. Although every day I struggle with where to draw the boundaries with this blog. I could say 8th ave. on the west, and 42nd St. to the south. But what if there’s a great place to eat on 41st. Am I really not going to walk the extra block? So the truth is, I’m not going to set any boundaries. And the reason is simple… No boundaries means I have an excuse to go all the way down to 32nd st. in Koreantown to write about my favorite all you can eat buffet… Arang.
One of my favorite styles of eating is the all you can eat buffet. The variety, the concept, the trying to beat the game by pushing your personal eating limits as far as they can go. What’s there not to like? (Besides how you feel afterwards). And nothing is going to get me to travel 16 blocks away from work like a $9.95 face stuffing Korean and Sushi extravaganza. Which is precisely what you get at Arang.
For those who work on the southern part of Midtown 32nd St. btw. Broadway and 5th Ave. is no big deal. But for those of us a little farther north, here’s the way I see it. There’s no ordering, and you start eating immediately… so- 20 minutes down, 20 minutes to eat, and 20 minutes back. It’s a full proof scheme.
Arang is what I refer to as a “small scale” buffet. Don’t expect Minado (the gigantic Japanese buffet on 32nd btw. 5+Madison, which sadely has been bought out by Todai) or some sort of Super Buffet. This is one of those small places with fewer items… but because it is small- you hope the few things they do have are done well.
What they have, the pictures and +/- after the jump… Read more »
Posted by Zach at 6:00 am, August 7th, 2006 under 32nd btw. B'way+5th, Buffet, All You Can Eat, Korean, Sushi.
Oh my lord it’s freakin hot… so what better way to spend your lunch time then sitting in line for a free coffee (hope the line is long enough that you have to wait outside). Thanks to TribecaGirl and 
If you read this blog every day, I’m sure you get the general idea of my taste. I’m not really into those delis that litter midtown with their “choice”. Choice to me is
For German sausage freaks, July 2006 was a terrible month. Not only did you have to watch your Football (aka Soccer) team lose in the Semi-Finals of the World Cup in their home country- but you had to suffer the indignity of not being able to drown your sorrows in a delicious bratwurst during lunch time.
Our favorites (for no other reason then our love for the pictures of Kennedy & Mao Zedong): The Dictator or Democracy Special. Dictator special… you get no choice. One Berliner frank, one bratwurst. Topped with German fries, cabbage, onions and crusty bread for 6 bucks. The Democracy Special… your choice (obviously) of any two wurst, covered in German fries, cabbage, onions and 2 pieces of Bavarian meatballs. Served with crusty bread for $8.
