Korean quickie

Had perhaps the nicest lunch meeting ever today. I really believe that the area around the British Museum is the best for small eateries in central London. Bi Won is a spectacular, tiny cafe-restaurant on Coptic Street that has had Time Out salivating for the last two issues.

Set lunches for around six quid. I ate miso soup with spring onions and tofu so soft it melted in the mouth but miraculously didn't disintegrate in the bowl; a spicy seafood broth with tofu and chilli; pickled chinese cabbage (kimchi); pickled bean sprouts; and, my favourite, bi bim bab, a stew of vegetables, beef and chilli paste on a bed of rice and a raw egg broken on top - which arrived at the table sizzling away in an earthenware bowl and which our sweet, adorable waitress then mixed all together for us (the heat cooked the egg as she stirred).

So nice to have a cheap(-ish) meal during lunchbreak that isn't Pret a Manger or Marks and Sparks. I'm going back again, and again.... and again.

Related links:
+ Korean restaurants in London
+ Guide to Korean food
+ Korean recipes

Other links today:
+ Where have all the intellectuals gone?
+ Popular criticism. Improving ourselves to death.
+ Where to go on the web if you love reading