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dogbert · Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Location: Killbox 90210

I don't know, but I'm with Swiss James on this one: the mushroom stew is far more spicy hot than the "buldak".

bosintang · Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 10:13 pm Post subject:

chronicpride · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

Buldak potency tends to totally vary, IMO. I went to the new one across the street from work, and I could've sworn that they must have taken one look at us and asked the cook to water it down, as it was mild. Actually, if I ate non-stop, the overall build-up would eventually be kind of spicy.

I went to one place in Insadong, where each piece of chicken, blew my socks off. My friend had to guzzle beer or anything with liquid, after each bit of chicken. Laughing

Universalis · Joined: 17 Nov 2003 Location: Seoul

And just for the record... the hottest chicken I've ever had was at the Wing Dome in Seattle on the Ave. The 5 alarm was pure fire... I couldn't finish my plate.

The puldalk I had here just did not compare...

Brian

JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

The only place I've had buldak was "blow your socks off" hot. Other tables were ordering this big wok-type thing with rice, veggies, water... like a stew almost. "Screw that" I said. "Give me the real deal." Just the chicken. (Way overpriced for what little you get, BTW) And that's all we got. Curled-up pieces of roasted chicken on a metal serving plate, and a small bowl of sweet (blechh) pickle slices. Oh, and the beer.

After we started, I ordered water... and more water... and more pickles.... and still more pickles. At one point, I was holding a few pickles between my lips, as they were burning like crazy and had started to lose all feeling. The meat itself was so spiced up that you really couldn't tell for sure it was chicken that you were eating, as there was little taste beyond the heat and pain, and because the spice seemed to deaden our taste buds.

indytrucks · Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Location: The Shelf

I posted about the trancendental experience that is BulDalk some months ago. My ravings, as usual, seem to have fallen on deaf ears.

You guys are behind the times.

dogbert · Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Location: Killbox 90210

Swiss James · Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Location: Shanghai

finally tried it at the weekend, 12,000 for a plate? Expensive, but it's delicious, and pretty spicy I thought, lips and tongue burning, couldn't eat more than 6 or 7 pieces.

Can't you get the flavour without the fire?

Hollywoodaction · Joined: 02 Jul 2004

If you still have sensation in your lips and your tongue after the first bite, it's not really spicy. Something is lacking in Korean cuisine to make it extra spicy (saffron, perhaps).

kangnamdragon · Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea

One 12,000 won plate is for 2 people. My friend and I had one last night. He was crying. Not all Koreans can handle spicy food. Koreans know fire chicken is spicy even for them. One plate filled both of us because we drank 3 bottles of water with it............and pickles of course.

Swiss James · Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Location: Shanghai

pickles ming.
Why would you put them in your mouth? They're just hanging.

Apparently we didn't get the correct side dish, there's a rice porridge thing but we didn't know the name of it and instead ended up with a plate of rice, some seaweed and a plastic glove.