The Best of Gangham Market

Hot pot beef rib-eye slices
Hot pot beef rib-eye slices

GROCERY INGREDIENTS

Longan
This juicy lychee-like fruit, nicknamed dragon’s eyes for its black seeds, tastes like a tropical cocktail of Asian pears, sweet melons, and white grapes. $7.99 a pound

Hot pot beef rib-eye slices
Throw a DIY hot pot party by grabbing a shabu-shabu meal kit and these diaphanously thin steak rolls. Use the leftovers to level up your Italian beef game. $8.99 a pound

Chinese cauliflower
Once you cook with this version, which give a mildly sweet, almost nutty taste when stir-fried, you’ll never want the usual. $1.79 a pound

 

Bulgogi steak burrito
Bulgogi steak burrito

FOOD COURT FARE

Bulgogi steak burrito
This spicy-sweet homage to bibimbap, Korea’s beloved rice bowls, packs bulgogi, kimchi rice, gochujang mayo, and sweet carrots into one of the best cross-cultural burritos in the city. $12.95

Truffled beef and egg sandwich
An all-day umami missile of a breakfast sandwich, it has truffled roast beef and custardy eggs set on thick-cut Japanese milk bread. It’s the perfect synthesis of Eastern finesse and Western excess. $12.88

Turkey chashu bun
Fans of pork chashu, the succulent slices of pork belly served atop tonkatsu ramen, will love this spiced turkey version served on a steamed bun. $6.95 for two

 

Jelly.B drinkable konjac jelly
Jelly.B drinkable konjac jelly

SNACKS

Baby Star ramen noodle snack
Who has time to boil water anymore? These fried ramen squiggles deliver instant college nostalgia in a bag. $1.79

Shoeido roll cake
These cloud-like Japanese roll cakes — airy, soft, and mildly sweet — are sold frozen but, when defrosted, outshine any prepackaged American sweet. $1.99

Jelly.B drinkable konjac jelly
Boba lovers, this is for you. The starchy root of the konjac plant is blended with fruit concentrates to produce these slurpable jelly drinks, which are all the rage in Korea and with the keto crowd. $1.99