Garionban Brings Hot Pots to Chinatown from Seoul, Korea | Eater Vegas

"Promising “a bowl of simple gukbap contains the taste of life,” I’m reporting that Seoul, Korea’s Garionban will debut in Chinatown this week at 4545 Spring Mountain Road in a 1,750-square-foot space next to California Sushi Burrito. The restaurant emphasizes an authentic North Korean-style gukbap (soup with rice), hot pots and other “culinary masterpieces”; its name is derived from an old-fashioned Korean word for “galbi” (beef short ribs) while “onban” translates as “a warm meal.” The house specialty is gukbap: the kitchen uses a cauldron to boil its beef brisket and makes kimchi and ox bone stock in-house. An early preview menu (and a soft opening announced today) suggests hours of 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. with lunch specials from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., and lists items such as an $11.99 ox bone soup with beef brisket, handmade steamed pork and kimchi dumplings for $8.99, marinated pork short ribs, a $35.99 cold jellyfish for two, and grilled pork slices with red pepper paste sauce." - Bradley Martin