panchan

I love the abundant vegetarian side dishes, called panchan, which arrive with my meal (I think last time we tried more than a dozen), and the smell of grilled beef is always intoxicating.

Steve Dolinsky: Kalbi After Dark 2008

The panchan are the usual assortment but they're all very good, much fresher tasting than

Wandering Chopsticks 2008

We cooked wet, slippery beef over grills set into our table but most of all I loved the panchan.

The Kitchen Daughter Jael McHenry 2011

I remember each panchan, savor its imagined taste again.

The Kitchen Daughter Jael McHenry 2011

We cooked wet, slippery beef over grills set into our table but most of all I loved the panchan.

The Kitchen Daughter Jael McHenry 2011

I remember each panchan, savor its imagined taste again.

The Kitchen Daughter Jael McHenry 2011

There are 16 different panchan at $2 each, including two kinds of kimchi, deep-fried kale chips, mixed fries, firecracker carrots and pickled green tomatoes.

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Kam ja tang (pork bone soup) with a tableful of panchan at Kunjip (32nd btw. 5+6th).

PROFILE: Midtown Lunch’er “Dave Cook” | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan 2008

Those containers of panchan would run you around $3 each if you were to buy individually from woorijip.

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The panchan here is very respectable, and the two kimchis we tried were both knockouts - chili-laced chunks of pickled daikon radish, as well as a fiery pickled napa cabbage.

Steve Dolinsky: Kalbi After Dark 2008