Yea Korea!

A food review...here's the unedited version:

Korean food often suffers in comparison to its more glamorous siblings- Chinese and Japanese. That and dark rumours of dogs in your buffet have long kept punters off this delicious branch of East Asian cuisine. Not that I'd ever had Korean food before this, but that's more for a lack of choice than inclination. Armed with the smugness of an official review for my magazine, I headed to a newly-opened Korean restaurant called K2 in Gurgaon. Designed in sleek noir ish colours of chrome, red and black, with high backed red leather chairs, the restaurant makes you feel that you've stumbled into Kill Bill and the widow's going to emerge from some corner. But anyway, it does not take away the limelight from the the USP of the restaurant, which is the food. Apart from a variety of standard Chinese fare, K2 offers a large selection of authentic Korean food. These range from staples like the traditional Kim Chi to grilled meats like pork and tenderloin. Koreans like their food uncluttered and unfussy, so with most dishes you will get a helping of steamed rice or noodles. K2 also offers a wide seafood selection, ranging from prawns to cod to shark-fins! But these are prohibitively expensive (anything between Rs 1,500 and Rs 2,000) and even the office's expense account didn't embolden me to try out any of these.
We ordered a kind of Kim Chi called Kim Chi Chige and an intriguingly named Jea Yuk Dap Bop. The former is a slightly sour stew of pork, diced cabbages and onions and comes bubbling in a nice stone pot. You also get a separate bowl of steamed rice to eat it with. Its a fermented dish, which accounts for its distinct sour taste.
Jea Yuk Dap Bop is a sweet dry dish of pork cooked with red and green bell peppers, sliced cabbages, black peppers, carrots and tomatoes and sprinkled with sesame seeds. This is a traditional form of grilled meat called Bulgogi (or “fire-meat”). Again, the dish comes with steamed rice. The restaurant is generous with the meat and the food is, quite frankly, delicious.
Vegetarian dishes are not their forte though, yet the restaurant does offer a large enough selection. These range from the one we ordered- Jab Chea- to bean curd dishes. Jab Chea is a dish of fried vegetables and glass noodles in soy sauce. Traditionally Koreans don't do separate vegetarian dishes, so I suspect that most of the dishes in the veg section are actually converted non-veg dishes.
The restaurant is also a Karaoke club with many tunes to choose from, including four different versions of “My Girl” and a strange sounding song called “Shoot the chicks”. These Koreans must be crazy.
If you include soup, and some drinks, then a meal for two will set you back by Rs1,500 to Rs 2,000. Of course, if you go for shark fin, the bill will be a totally different kettle of fish.