I’ve been to David Chang’s Ssam Bar a host of times but never for the Bo Ssam. Not until a New Zealand mate decisively held the reins and made a reserve for a yearn Sunday lunch.
Not much to be said here and that the pulchritude of it! Wrap amatory pork meddle in lettuce with ivory rice, add one of the four sauces and dialect mayhap an oyster. Straightforward and incredibly flavorful. Tangy, salty, soft and crunchy. The brilliance part is that you get to eat with your hands and doesn’t everything soup improve when its utensil unchain? Ya.
You don’t poverty to sect starters but being eight narrow-minded pigs, we had to. It would be off make if we didn’t. Start with the Steamed Pork Buns, Bread & Butter (that butter would be lardo ) and the Buttermilk Biscuit which is a glorifed bacon, egg and cheese sandwich - David Chang doing what he does trounce – glorifing the norm. No underlying pun intended. Sorta.
The Avery “Creamy Knave” Creamy Ale is tops with all this pork fat.Washs down cold and neat.
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