Nhung N.
Yelp
Buk Kyung is a Korean restaurant located in Somerville, MA. There is metered street parking in front of the restaurant as well as across the street. There is also an adjacent lot to the right side of the storefront as well.
There are three must order items in my opinion. First and foremost, the tangsuyook, which is a deep fried battered pork strips. This is a definite must share item for a large group. The large order is ginormous. It comes with a sweet and sour dipping sauce that you can drizzle on top of leave on the side as a dipping sauce. If you're in a small group of two or even three, a small would do. Goes well with a nice cold beer and they offer quite a variety.
Second, I recommend ordering the samsum ganjajang. This is their black bean stir fried vegetables (loaded with cabbage and onions) and seafood with the noodle served on the side. This is my go to place whenever I crave black bean noodle. To enjoy, you mix into the noodle the black bean sauce and eat it while it is warm. The black bean sauce is very rich and slightly sweet combined with the slightly thick and chewy noodle is in my opinion heaven. I would also say this is a good dish to share since the denseness and richness can be a bit much after several bites in.
The third must try item is the seafood soft tofu chigae. This is by far their tastiest soup and I have tried three others which I don't recommend and will explain why later. The soft tofu soup is spicy, salty, and seafoody. The broth is the most flavorful in my opinion. Out of all their soups and stew, I feel this is their best.
I have also tried the kimchi chigae which I found to not be as good as other Korean restaurants we have been to. Not sour and salty enough.
The mandoo soup, which is a vegetable soup with dumpling and rice cake, I find to be rather bland since it is a vegetable broth.
I also tried their yuk gae jang, which is a shredded beef, egg, and vegetables soup in a spicy beef broth with noodles. This noodle soup is only okay. I wouldn't order it again. I didn't quite enjoy the vegetables in this soup.
I also don't recommend the tofu kimchi jeyook. I have had it at other restaurants and this restaurant version I am sorry to say didn't taste all that good. I wonder if it had to do with the kimchi used. It didn't look appetizing either when served.
There you have it, my top three must try and possibly bottom four to maybe skip. See my pictures!