Glad to be Home

Woo Ree Jip means "My home" in Korean and true to its name, the restaurant serves a wide variety of home cooked Korean soups and other dishes.  They are well known for their variety of soup.  Their menu has at least 20 types of soups.  Some of them are complete strangers to me but all my friends are team players that each of us order something different to try.  I was sitting at the very end of the table so some, I have not tried BUT since it's 5 minutes away from my house... please anticipate the little foodie's thoughts of the remaining dishes.




They started us off with... ...

Left to right: Kimchi, radish pickle, salad.  The salad has really nice dressing!

We started ourselves off with... ...

Seafood pancake -- More seafood please! Other than that, goodie!

And the hunger game begins... ...

Gang -doenjang (Soybean paste stew) with barley rice -- I love the barley rice. And they have some sea kelp and lettuce on the side to wrap the mix of barley rice, soybean paste, spicy radish and spinach.

Soybean paste -- It's really a paste, I think. And no! Don't drink it! Mix it with the rice!

Beef broth soup with beef ribs -- Don't be trick.  It is more spicy that it looks like.  Friend found a big piece of rib in there!

Hangover soup with beef broth -- There is a faint taste of ginger in there.  Not sure if it actually help with hangover but I sure like this one! 

Spicy cold noodle -- It was at the other end of the table but... it sure looks good!  It looks like it might take over my favourite cold noodle restaurant downtown though.

Pork bone soup -- At the other end of the table again BUT I am going back there for the bigger pot ;)

Beef tripe intestine soup -- I know it looks the same as the other beef broth soup.  It probably tastes different from the other two (yes, it's at the other end of the table) and I didn't smell any funny taste as it was passed down the table.

Perilla seed wheat flake soup -- This is the most different out of all.  First, it came with a different type of pot (see left pic). Second, no rice or noodle came with it, it's some sort of doughy thingy (see right pic).  Third, it's neither spicy nor heavy nor watery.  Imagine a non-creamy version of the Campbell mushroom soup and you probably know what I mean.  If not, try it! They have some potatoes, mussels and shrimps in there too!

Someone ordered the spicy stir fry squid but, as you know, we were too hungry so we eat-ed it before the camera make it there in time.  Next time then!