[640] in Vegetarian_Support_Group
new Korean-Japanese buffet at Central Square
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard D Katz)
Fri Aug 4 17:55:20 1995
To: vsg@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 1995 17:52:50 EDT
From: Leonard D Katz <lkatz@MIT.EDU>
New Arirang Restaurant, #4 in the middle of Central Square
(Turn right off Mass. Ave., facing toward MIT, just after crossing the
big multi-street thing (Western, River and whatever else) on the S.
side) and it's a just few storefronts off Mass. Ave., before you come
to the bus stand for the #64, 83 and 91 buses. The marquee is from their
predecessor -- so look for the menu in the window, not their name on the
big sign!
The deal seems to be the buffet, which is all-you-can eat for $5,
11:30 to 7 weekdays and some other hours at least Saturday. This
seems not to correspond exactly to the items listed in the window, but
to vary with the day and hour -- so check if there are enough veggie
things first and ask if the veggies have oyster sauce, if you are a
purist. Typically, you'll find both cold (Korean and Japanese salads,
some fruit or other sweet for dessert) and hot (udon noodles and fried
rice, tempura sweet potatoes, one or two vegetable dishes, tofu -- but
once that was substituted for by fishcakes --, in addition to a few
nonveggie dishes.
This is a small, simple, very new and largely undiscovered restaurant.
I like it a lot! They are very nice and obviously need customers and
I think will respond easily to have more veggie stuff if we become
customers and ask. But it's a pretty good deal for veggies as it is
(especially when they're not out of tofu).
There's nothing fancy: you pay when you enter, have a choice of
disposable chopsticks or plastic utensils and eat off fast-food-style
throwaway plates. There are no official rest rooms, but they'll
direct you to the one for staff in the back, where it says 'Employees
Only', if you ask.
Leonard
