Cho Sun Ok Korean Restaurant
7353 Yonge Street
Thornhill, ON L3T 2B3
905-707-8426
Date visited: July 5, 2014
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| Side Dishes that accompany your Meal |
I can't imagine a more perfect place to eat than Cho Sun Ok on a sweltering day in Toronto. Why? Because their signature dish Mool Naengmyun literally transports you to the heart of Alaska!
Cold, chewy and thin arrowroot noodles are served in a wondrously icy broth. The broth itself is so complex and delicious. It's sweet yet tangy and it has a deep beef flavour. The homemade red pepper sauce gives it a subtle kick and the sesame seeds and oil give it an astounding aroma! Still, the coolest thing about this slushy broth - if your not careful - is that it can give you brain freeze! It's such a strangely unique concept (at least to me) that is fully thought out... I mean, the Mool Naengmyun is served in a stainless steel bowl so that the broth stays chilled while you consume it.
Along with a boiled egg, the Mool Naengmyun is also served with notoriously refreshing and crunchy ingredients such as slivers of cucumber, pickled daikon, and a slice of pear. What an awesome combination of ingredients to give a contrast to those chewy noodles! It's a true winner to help you stay as cool as a cucumber (I know, I couldn't resist).
I didn't want to end this post without saying that Cho Sun Ok is not afraid of heating things up either. Cho Sun Ok is home to one of my favourite incarnations of Gemja Tang, commonly known as pork bone soup. The pork neck meat is just so tender that it is easily coaxed off their bones - fall off the bone if you will. You roughly get four hunks of meat in a well developed broth with potatoes and onions. But it's the generous garnishing of perilla seeds and green onions that really take the cake for me. It makes for such an aromatic soup! I highly recommended!
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