beverage dinner restaurants: annandale korean virginia
by Lindsey
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Honey Pig
My friend T had been talking up a storm about Honey Pig forever. A few months back, we finally took him up on it and drove out to Annandale with a group of hungry meat lovers to get our Korean BBQ on! The place is apparently open 24-7 (except Mondays 2am-11am) and you can almost always find some kind of crowd in there whatever hour of the day. The decor is pretty bare bones, almost industrial looking with cement floors and sheet metal panels on the walls. You can tell they’ve just forgone the extra frills and you just go there for the good eats.
We were seated fairly quickly upon arrival, which was surprising since I’d expected to wait a while. (We did have a reservation, but I had heard that sometimes you still have to wait). We ordered an obscene amount of food to share with the table and sat back to wait for it all to roll in.
Pictured above is the seafood pancake, which was pretty tasty. Imagine a scallion pancake but with all kinds of savory seafood chunks like shrimp and squid. It came with a dipping sauce and i thought it was a great thing to nibble on as the meat was being cooked.
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Yellow Bulgogi Truck
A few weeks ago, I was walking back from lunch when I spotted a yellow truck parked at the corner of 12th and G that I had never seen before. Naturally, I had to get a closer look, and it turned out to be a bulgogi truck! They seem to keep a low profile both on the street and online. I found their Yelp page and rather sparse Twitter account, which isn’t very helpful in pinning down where they’ll be everyday.
They have a short and sweet menu, bulgogi, bibimbap, or chicken teriyaki. You can also choose between medium or spicy on the spiciness scale. I got the medium beef bulgogi, pictured above, which came with sticky rice and sides of kimchi and iceberg lettuce with citrus vinaigrette. I thought the portions were pretty good for the money. The kimchi’s spiciness was a nice addition to the relatively muted flavor of the beef. Apparently the bibimbap is a better deal because you’ll get more veggies with your meal.
They don’t tweet their location on a daily basis, but it seems like they try to hit the same spot on the street everyday…at least, for a month. Their last tweet seemed to indicate they’d be on 12th street for a few weeks. The last I saw them, they were at 12th and F, by the metro entrance.
