hello hi everyone! Today we’re diving back into our series on Bay Area restaurant hacks with an homage to one of my favorite korean BBQ spots in town, which is Bowl’d on Telegraph Ave here in Oakland. While this spot is relatively new to the neighborhood, most Oakland locals will tell you that this particular block of Telegraph Ave in the Temescal is well known for a number of Korean BBQ restaurants that occupy the block, Bowl’d being one of its more recent additions.

More specifically, today we’ll be paying some homage to their bibimbap, or BBQ beef bulgogi rice bowl. A bibimbap can contain a WHOLE bunch of different veggies (including spinach, bean sprouts, kimchi, mushrooms, seaweed, shredded daikon, and more), so for our version today I just went ahead and picked a few of my favorites that I think will be most accessible and easy to reproduce for folks at home. The highlight of the dish today however, will of course be our BBQ beef bulgogi, which we’ll be making from some thinly sliced angus beef tenderloin, as well as my personal favorite ingredient courtesy of a tip from the “Korean Bap Sang” blog, a bit of green apple. Hope you try it!

It will be out on Friday April 16th, 2021, so bookmark the recipe here, and be sure to subscribe and hit the bell on YouTube to get notified when it’s out!

Woo Can Cook is a series where we reproduce fun foods and recipes from my childhood. Some of them are authentically Chinese and/or pan-Asian, but a lot of them are odd Americanized versions that I inherited from my parents and grandparents while growing up in the Bay Area/California.

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