KoJa Kitchen visits OtG Larkspur every other Sunday. KoJa Kitchen launched their food truck onto the streets of the San Francisco Bay Area on September 19, 2011.Īfter two years of traveling the streets of the Bay Area, KoJa Kitchen soft-opened a brick and mortar restaurant in Berkeley in early December 2013 on 2395 Telegraph Ave. You can order a vegetarian version of the kamikaze fries that excludes the kimchi. It overpowered the other flavors for me.įor those allergic to or religiously conscientious of shellfish, keep in mind that KoJa kimchi has shellfish in the red pepper paste, as is traditional. Unless you’re into Hawaiian cuisine, I’d recommend ordering it without the pineapple slice.
The chicken KoJa burger had a blend of spiciness and sweetness, channeling the 닭갈비 dakgalbi dish. The rice “bun” did have sesame seeds, so my tongue was not totally deprived of sesame flavor. A lack of distinct sesame seed oil flavor is common in mass-market “Korean barbecue” sauces and premade “ kalbi.” Yet the marinade did have some sweetness, which is key to the appeal of the savory-sweet original. The marinade for the kalbi KoJa burger was soy sauce–forward. Short rib KoJa with kamikaze fries (Jeff Quackenbush photo) Opting for the chicken burger trimmed the combo cost to $12.15. A kalbi KoJa burger, kamikaze fries and a soft drink came to $13.15. We ordered off the “kamikaze combo” menu. KoJa Kitchen’s menu is posted on two large-screen TV’s.
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on Yelp aptly described a KoJa burger as “a portable rice bowl.”Īlso popular are KoJa’s “kamikaze fries.” They dive-bomb your belly with crisscross-cut fried potatoes, smothered in diced kalbi, 김치 kimchi and a drizzle of mayonnaise and 고추장 gochujang (Korean red chili and fermented soybean paste).įor me, gochujang on fries is always a kick! Yet the mayo helps tone down the spiciness a little. You can get a “KoJa” in several versions: 갈비 kalbi (beef short rib), 불고기 bulgogi (savory sautéed beef), spicy chicken and pineapple, spicy pork or “Teriyaki Zen” (vegetarian). The rolling restaurant’s specialty are sandwiches enclosed in “buns” of toasted sticky-rice discs. One lucky guy doesn’t have to wait in line anymore. We showed up a half-hour before closing, and the line at the KoJa Kitchen truck was two to three times as long as those at the other half-dozen meal and snack trucks there. KoJa had nearly a dozen people in line after 2:30 p.m., 1/2 hour before closing time. Most of the trucks only had 1-2 people in line. The San Francisco Bay Area’s food truck scene includes several Korean food trucks in the mix, including Seoul on Wheels (based in SF and Emeryville, Calif.) and MoGo BBQ (based in San Jose, Calif.) KoJa (which stands for Korean-Japanese) Kitchen was on my radar for some time. (Tammy Quackenbush/Koreafornian photo via Instagram) This is a view of the OtG Larkspur from the Ferry across the street taken last spring.
to check out KoJa Kitchen’s Korean-Japanese “fast casual” food truck at the Off the Grid (OtG) street food gathering. Hubby and I drove down to Marin Country Mart in Larkspur, Calif.
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