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How to cut wang galbi (king-style short ribs)?

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    • January 14, 2012 at 6:04 pm #50405
      dman
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      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 #55150
      powerplantop
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      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 #55151
      littlez
      Member

      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 #55152
      powerplantop
      Participant

      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 #55153
      powerplantop
      Participant

      This should help you with how to cut them.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX2gkN4c0qU

    • January 27, 2012 at 5:48 pm #55154
      Maangchi
      Keymaster

      haha, I was going to embed the video but you uploaded this. Thank you!

    • January 27, 2012 at 8:13 pm #55155
      powerplantop
      Participant

      I saw the ribs at the store and remembered this request.

    • January 26, 2013 at 5:53 am #55156
      jae-mi
      Member

      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 #75259
      Maangchi
      Keymaster

      Check out my galbi-gui recipe here. https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/galbi

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