Hicksville: Korean lunch
Sulrong Tang, beef and bone broth with noodles and brisket at Koreana in Hicksville. (May 18, 2010) Credit: Erica Marcus
Lunch today at Koreana, the restaurant attached to the Korean supermarket H & Y in Hicksville. As with all Korean restaurants, the fun begins right after you order when the waiter brings over a selection of banchan, little dishes of kimchee and other vegetable-based tidbits. We ordered the mandu dumplings that I enjoyed on my last visit to Koreana, as well as a plate of BonChon drumsticks that Joan Reminick included in her roundup of best chicken on Long Island.
Soup was the main event today. I got the Sulrong Tang (pictured above), beef-bone broth containing noodles and slices of brisket. For a while now, I have been trying to cultivate a taste for Korean bone broth—it’s a milky white broth made from boiling meatless bones—but I cannot get past its essential blandness. My soup was served with a little dish of salt that I was instructed to add on my own; perhaps I just didn’t add enough.
My friend had no such seasoning issues. Her Jjampong, spicy seafood noodle soup, was brimming with flavor, thick noodles and all manner of sea creatures.
Koreana is at 478 Plainview Rd., Hicksville, 516-932-4690.
Newsday photo / Erica Marcus
