DJK Korean BBQ

The best Korean and Japanese restaurants can be found just west of Portland in Beaverton, a Portland close suburb, also known as Nike/Intel town where most Nike and Intel employees live. Nike's campus is also in Beaverton.

Craving Korean BBQ, we planed a visit to DJK Korean BBQ in a stretch of small scale malls along Canyon street. The restaurant keeps the temperature on the cool side to compensate for the heat from all the BBQ burners. Each of the BBQ tables has an industrial hood mounted above to suck up steam and smoke.

There were three of us. We selected three things for the grill, prawns, Bolgogi (marinated beef) and thinly sliced beef tongue. To round up all the protein, we also got a Korean seafood pancake on the side. Like all Korean affairs, we would start the meal with complimentary small dishes of kimchi.

thinly sliced beef tongue

There was also lettuce leaves for wrapping up BBQ'ed meats, along with sauces for seasoning. The beef tongue was very good, tasted like really lean meat. Bolgogi was exceptionally tender and flavorful. The prawns are excellent as long as you don't over grill it. If we had stopped there, we would've all been pretty full. But don't forget we also ordered a Korean pancake. It's roughly 15" in diameter, and cut to 8 wedges. It's a flour batter mixed in with veggies and lots of seafood goodies like octopus and shrimps. So very yummy.

Korean pancake with golden crispy crust and tender inside

We talked out of DJK with full bellies and smelly hair and clothes.