How to cut wang galbi (king-style short ribs)?
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- January 14, 2012 at 6:04 pm #50405dmanParticipant
I’m getting into Korean BBQ and I want to learn how to cut beef short ribs traditional Korean style. My butcher can cut it L.A. style, across the bone, bue I want it traditional/king style (aka, wang galbi), with the meat filleted out from the bone into a very thin strip. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galbi for details. I doubt my butcher would do this, because he probably wouldn’t know how, and even if he did, I doubt he’d be willing to spend the time doing it. Besides, the local butchers are not consistent in terms of how thinly they slice the meat, and I want it extremely thin. I know I could probably buy wang galbi at a Korean market, but I want to use grass-fed beef, and grass-fed beef is not available at my local Korean market (in Oakland, California). Any suggestions as to how I can learn how to cut this meat myself? I looked on Youtube, Amazon, and Google, but I couldn’t find anything. Thanks in advance for your help!
Bonus question: Does the meat cook/taste better king-style, in your opinion, compared to L.A. style?
- January 17, 2012 at 3:27 pm #55150powerplantopParticipant
I prefer the meat with the butterfly cut. When they make LA style they use a band saw to cut across the bones and you have to wash off the bone fragments. That said I bought some really nice looking LA cut ones yesterday.
Until a good video gets posted read this, it should help.
http://eatingandliving.blogspot.com/2010/06/galbikalbi-korean-bbq-short-ribs.html
- January 19, 2012 at 9:25 pm #55151littlezMember
Powerplantop… I can’t seem to reply to the other post with your question about Korean restaurants in West Palm Beach. I’m going to answer here and hope you get it! :) I haven’t been to any of these, so I can’t vouch for them personally, but here they are:
There’s this one in Lake Worth:
New Seoul Korean Restaurant (it may be called Kawaii Korean and Japanese food now) (reviews are positive)
(561) 582-5800
809 Lake Ave
Lake Worth, FL 33460
and this one (which is also Korean and Japanese)
KYO Sushi Restaurant
1209 South Military Trail, West Palm Beach
(561) 967-9992
there are a few in the Ft. Lauderdale/Hollywood area that I heard are pretty good. If you’re interested, please let me know.
Good luck with your project! Cheryl :)
- January 20, 2012 at 2:14 am #55152powerplantopParticipant
Thanks for the info. I may be going down for a review of the project Monday so this is good info!
- January 21, 2012 at 3:29 am #55153powerplantopParticipant
This should help you with how to cut them.
- January 27, 2012 at 5:48 pm #55154MaangchiKeymaster
haha, I was going to embed the video but you uploaded this. Thank you!
- January 27, 2012 at 8:13 pm #55155powerplantopParticipant
I saw the ribs at the store and remembered this request.
- January 26, 2013 at 5:53 am #55156jae-miMember
Hi, I would like to know what’s the difference between wang galbi and galbi sal? I saw this cut of meat at the Korean grocery store and have been looking up galbi sal online with no luck. Can someone help me here? Thanks!!
- October 7, 2017 at 6:45 pm #75259MaangchiKeymaster
Check out my galbi-gui recipe here. https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/galbi
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