I had a very late lunch yesterday at Sungho, at 250 Hyde Street in the Tenderloin. Sungho is a Korean restaurant that specializes in gukbap, which is soup with rice. They opened last November.
The exterior is pretty nondescript.
Inside - I got there around when they opened at 5pm.
The menu is short and sweet. In addition to gukbap, some other items that looked interesting included marinated spicy crab, bossam, and jokbal which is a braised pork trotter dish. To drink, there’s beer, makgeolli, soju, and soft drinks.
PORK BONE SOUP (돼지국밥) ($26)
Simmered for 24 hours, this hearty broth is paired with tender pork, creating a deeply flavorful and satisfying dish.
I had a bowl of the regular pork bone soup / dwaeji-gukbap (thanks Google Translate). There’s also a spicy version which I think is haejang-guk / hangover soup. This was delicious! It was served bubbling in a hot stone bowl. The broth was milky, collagen rich, and porky with a good hit of garlic. There was a generous amount of tender pork in the bowl - I think sliced pork belly and maybe some sliced pork trotter with skin. On the side was a bowl of rice, which I partly mixed into the soup, cabbage kimchi, chili paste, jangajji /soy sauce pickles, and daikon kimchi. The kimchi and jangajji helped cut through the fat. It was a very satisfying bowl of gukbap.
