A KOKO - Korean restaurant

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For a different taste in food, we had lunch at the A KOKO restaurant on the corner of Soi Kola (opposite the old Speed 3 site).

The restaurant is stylish, service was good, and the food was very good. My stepdaughter has acquired a taste for Korean food while at uni in Bangkok, and guided us through a menu of previously unknown dishes, accompanied by an interesting drink called Jinro which was a 13.5% alcohol brew a lot like a green grape wine.

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Price was moderate at 650 Thb for 3 people, each of whom felt comfortably full after a starter of Gimbap (a bit like sushi, rolled in seaweed) and accompanied by sweet sliced white raddish, kimchi, and a mild(ish!)red chilli powder, followed by kimchi soup containing tofu, onion, a tomato base, served with rice, and then a noodle dish with pork in black bean sauce.

Worth trying!
 
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According to Drink's International Jinro is the top selling alcohol in the world. They sell it from 13 to 40 proof, the flavoured ones are a newish phenomenon. Soju is Korea's national drink, it is distilled rice, barley and sweet potato. In the 80's I spent a fair bit of time in the "Land of the morning calm" TM, and drank copius amounts of straight ice cold Soju and the 40 proof was what most Koreans drank. Unflavored Soju tastes like a sweetish vodka.

Flavoured Soju is made in Thailand by Tawandang distillery and sell for 80 baht a bottle, the flavours they make are green grape, watermelon, peach, strawberry and yogurt. A nice alternative to Spy for the ladies, 13.5 proof and considerably cheaper than imported Jinro Soju. I would post a photo of it but don't want to piss the mods off.

 
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