[Santa Clara] Luke Tsai in SF Magazine: In Santa Clara’s sprawling strip malls, you’ll find cauldrons of chicken-ginseng soup, mountains of charcoal-grilled meat, and some seriously swanky supermarkets. In short, it’s the best Korean food in the Bay.

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I forgot about “augustiner” who did a review of the soondae at Moo Bong Ri in Oakland about a year ago:

Moo bong ri

Went to moo bong ri in Oakland tonight. Seasonal blues and a hangover called out for soup. Koreans have a wide repertoire of healing soups but I’ve never had sundae guk before tonight (or soon-dae. This ain’t no ice cream!). I ordered the spicy soup set which came with a side of mostly sweet potato starch noodle stuffed blood sausage and two pieces of pork sausage and a pile of…offal? Condiments include saeujot, or fermented briny baby shrimp, salt with chili flakes, green onions, ground perill…