Beitlers in NYC

Girts and I aren’t very familiar with Korean food, but Vanessa, our new friend from NY, was talking about it when we went to dinner last, so Girts and I decided we should give it a try.  Of course, I researched where we should go and Gam Mee Ok seemed like it would be a good option: cheap and highly recommended.

The menu didn’t have that much on it, but the oxtail soup came highly recommended, so we ordered it and a brisket dish.  I couldn’t figure out what was so cheap about the restaurant, but what I didn’t know is that the food came with a variety of side dishes: kim chi, sauces, and three long, skinny, green peppers.  The peppers puzzled us the most.  Were they hot?  Were we supposed to dip them into the sauces?  Should we add them to our food?  We couldn’t tell from the people seated on either side of us.  So Girts finally just went for it and took a bite.  The first bite wasn’t hot at all.  So I took a bite.  I think I ate some seeds because what I was expecting to taste like a bell pepper tasted a lot more like a jalapeno.  I know, Rob, for you that would be nothing.  But for me it was hot.  After another bite Girts agreed that it was hot.  The weird thing is that one of the three peppers really wasn’t hot and the other two were.  We still never found out what we were supposed to do with them.  I know, we could have asked.

The oxtail soup was delicious, like comfort food.  The brisket was ok, but the julienned scallions in sesame oil that came with the brisket were amazing!  We also really enjoyed the Kim chi.  In the end we had more than enough food and paid less than $30 for everything, including tax and tip.