13 Essential Korean Restaurants in the Twin Cities

"With no reservations, counter service, and long, communal dining tables stretching the length of the restaurant, KBOP feels like a restaurant tailored for Dinkytown’s student-heavy traffic. This version of tteokbokki, a spicy stir fry of cylindrical rice cakes and sheets of fish cake that’s soupier and sweeter than you’ll find at others in the Twin Cities, is rumored to cure any hangover. In the winter seasons, KBOP is notable as one of the few restaurants in the Twin Cities serving tteokguk — a soup of rice cakes sliced on the bias, simmered in a collagen-rich beef stock that’s cloudy with whipped egg white, and topped with blanched greens and delicate shreds of paper-thin omelette, often eaten on Seollal (the Korean Lunar New Year)." - Julie Zhou