Restaurant: Yigah Restaurant
Location: 8562 Garden Grove Blvd Garden Grove, CA 92844. (657) 233-5502
Date: April 26, 2023
Cuisine: Korean
Rating: Tasty, but there is similar far closer
After at least 6 months, maybe of year of pestering, I finally agreed to drive down to Garden Grove with Yarom for some Korean spicy beef ribs.
I’m not quite sure why he was so obsessed about going to this particular Korean joint about an hour away (with no traffic). But eventually I relented.
Decent enough build out.
The menu. Korean menus aren’t that long and there are usually a lot of variants of the same thing.
Banchan. This is probably a mustard green fermented with chili sauce.
Shredded Daikon.
Turnip or Daikon Kimchee.
Cabbage Kimchee (the classic).
Spicy bean paste and a slightly sweet sauce.
Bossam. Boiled Pork Belly w/ napa cabbage, spicy radish etc. Boy was this some delicious “boiled pork belly.” Really soft, succulent, and porky. Awesome wrapped up with some spicy bean paste.
Spicy Braised Beef Ribs with Cheese. Giant dinosaur ribs in sweet and spciy korean stew sauce topped with Mozzarella and blow torched. Lots of beefy goodness!
So these ribs were good. The bossam was good. But, that being said, it’s hard to imagine there aren’t a whole bunch of places serving nearly the same thing in Korea Town. So not sure why we had to drive to Orange County.