JJamPPong

Jjamppong serves Korean Chinese food in the Excelsior, the kind of menu that pairs seafood jjamppong and onion-heavy jajangmyeon with double-fried chicken wings. The dish people come back for is the spicy raw crab: six crab halves set beneath a mound of vegetables in chili sauce, meant to be eaten by hand with a glove, the meat squeezed out onto seaweed and rice alongside it. It's a messy, hands-on dish, spicy and loud in flavor, and it anchors a menu built on Korean Chinese comfort food. The restaurant has developed a steady following and tends to run crowded on weeknights.