Moo Dae Po 2’s Duruchigi Shovel is a Lunchtime Steal
After this epic Thai Town crawl w/ Jet Tila yielded some pretty great finds, I felt pretty comfortable tagging along with Food Republic’s Jason Kessler a few weeks ago for another Asian food crawl, this time through Koreatown. While I can’t relate to his feelings about Asian food (I thought loving Chinese food was part of the genetic makeup of Jews, like a culinary tay-sachs if you will), the dude is a good guy and I will never turn down an excuse to eat four lunches in succession. And while I feel like I’ve done a pretty good job of stuffing my face in K-Town (with the help of guides like The Guru, Mattatouille and @samkimsamkim), it’s always nice to see a neighborhood from a new perspective. And most of all I hoped that maybe I’d end up being introduced to something completely new and cool.
Well, if you read Jason’s post then you know that it didn’t quite turn out that way. Our Korean food guide was no Jet Tila, and Haus is no Bhan Kanom Thai. But there was one thing that we tried on our first stop, that kind of blew everybody away. It’s called duruchigi, and at Moo Dae Po 2 they serve it to us in a giant shovel. Of course always being skeptical of organized media eating, I returned last week to see if this “shovel” existed for real people. Or if it was just some kind of PR mirage rolled out for the big guns at Food Republic…
Posted at 11:56 am, July 18th, 2012 under Korean, Koreatown, Moodaepo II.
