Sea Restaurant Opens From Michelin-Starred Jungsik | Eater NY

"Opening on Wednesday, August 21 at 151 W. 30th Street near Seventh Avenue, Sea is a tailored casual Southeast Asian restaurant that fuses his fine-dining chops with Korean and French techniques and draws on cuisine from Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore. The 70-seat dining room features tufted banquettes and simple wooden tables, and the menu plays with texture and cross-cultural riffs: a prawn roll made with lace-like spring roll wrappers imported from Ho Chi Minh City for shatteringly crisp bites; lemongrass-scented St. Louis ribs with a French-style handle; a dry tom yum that uses kalguksu noodles as its base; and a pork noodle soup that blends Vietnamese pho, Malaysian bak kut teh, and Korean gomtang — its broth simmers at least six hours in a 40-gallon pot with a pig’s head, ribs, trotters, shoulder bones, and spices like cinnamon, clove, and star anise, then is combined with braised pork belly, rice noodles, cilantro, bean sprouts, lime, and Thai basil. Reservations for the main dining room are on Resy, some front-dining-room seating and the entire bar are available for walk-in, and hours are Tuesday–Saturday from 5 to 11 p.m." - Caroline Shin