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735 45th Ave. NE Columbia Heights, MN 55421

763-571-2009

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BEST KOREAN RESTAURANT
Award Winner 2010

Cuisine(s): Barbecue, Korean
Price: $
Parking: Lot Available

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If you need fire-roasted Korean salt, fresh lotus pickles, or more elaborate seaweed-based bar snacks than any of your neighbors, the market at Dong Yang should be first on your list. If you need Korean comfort foods cooked to order by a group of Korean moms and grandmas with an ocean-deep reservoir of cooking know-how, then you need to report to the lunch room in the back of Dong Yang market. The room isn't much to look at--with the Korean satellite television, concrete block walls, and counter-service ambience, it's more about utility than design--but if you want to eat like the favorite son of a family full of great cooks, this is the place. Please note, dinner orders are only taken until 7:30 p.m.

2010 | BEST KOREAN RESTAURANT

So much noise is made in the sense-world of food about the importance of taste--as well as its Siamese twin perception, smell--that we tend to ignore the rest of our senses in the midst of a meal. Sure, sight, with its inverse relationship with the stomach, gets some play, as does touch, what with Iron Chef judges flapping their lips about texture and "mouthfeel." But a good meal also appeals directly and passionately to that lonely fifth sense: sound. No joke. Remember the first... More »
2008 | BEST KOREAN RESTAURANT

Of course, we love King's Fine Korean in Fridley--who doesn't--but when we want our kimchi a little more low-key, i.e. sans karaoke, we head up Central Avenue and stop at Dong Yang. Inside the massive Asian grocery, which sells everything from household furniture to gallon jars of Korea's national pickle, a small lunchroom in back is staffed by Korean women who will feed you like you're family. The ambiance is nothing fancy--order at the counter, find a seat at one of the... More »

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citypagesbestof | Minneapolis, MN | 145 Reviews

| Wed, May 6, 2009

Of course, we love King's Fine Korean in Fridley�who doesn't?�but when we want our kimchi a little more low-key, i.e. sans karaoke, we head up Central Avenue and stop at Dong Yang. Inside the massive Asian grocery, which sells everything from household furniture to gallon jars of Korea's national pickle, a small lunchroom in back is staffed by Korean women who will feed you like you're family. The ambiance is nothing fancy�order at the counter, find a seat at one of the food-court tables�but the food is flavor-packed, between the man doo dumplings, gal bi short ribs, thin-sliced bul go gi beef, grilled-to-golden ka ji mee fish, and the beloved bibimbap: meat, vegetables, and rice served in a hot stone pot with a raw egg cracked on top. Despite the no-frills digs, the array of panchan (a changing assortment of small side dishes) that accompany entr�es is downright decadent: tasty bites of bean sprout, spicy potato salad, and pickled daikon radish that are good enough to inspire singing, microphone or not.

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Dong Yang

735 45th Ave. NE Columbia Heights, MN 55421

763-571-2009

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