Wednesday, September 14, 1994 — North Shore News ~ 27

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Flavour of India

Timoth y Renshaw
TABLE HOPPING

Da-Som, 1315 Lonsdale Ave.,
North Vancouver, 986-0063.
MasterCard and Visa accepted.
Open from 11:30 a.m. to 11
P. .m. Monday to Friday. Open
rom 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday
and Sunday. Licensed. Take the
kids or cali a babysitter? You
could do either.

Menu for tonight:
® Sunomone ($3.50)
* Kal Bi Combo ($8.50)
° B.C. Roll ($2.75)
¢ Salmon Roll ($2.55)
¢ Tuna Roll ($2.35)

FTER AN eternity with

nary a sushi shop te its

name, Lonsdale seems
suddenly the recipient of a
minor sushi tsunami.

It began in August 1993 when
Alisa Japanese restaurant moved
into the storefront occupied for
so long by the Nairobi indo-
African restaurant. Gen Sushi
then set up shop in the upper
teaches of North Vancouver
City’s main drag. And the
Japanese food wave continues to
sweep the length of Lonsdale
with the new Honjin Japanese
restaurant in the former Saigon
restaurant location (140
Lonsdale) in.Lower Lonsdale and
a pair of new sushi bars in the
suddenly sushi-saturated zone
between 13th and 15th streets.

Papa’s and Mama’s Japanese
Kitchen at 1434 Lonsdale is a
small Japanese eat-in-take-out
cafe adjoined to Ripps Diner, the
North Shore's legendary “Garden
of Eatin’,” a fabled chop house of
biblical low prices and short-
order cookery.

More interesting, however, is
Da-Som.

Sei Oh opened his 50-seat
restaurant in early August in
what was briefly Benito Gardens
and before Benito, Tu Casa,
which began with an snitial
promise of interestin: Spanish
tood but lost focus ane mean-
dered into mediocre
Mediterranean cuisine.

Da-Som presents + good
selection of Japanese ushis,
sashimis, tempuras a; udons
and adds to ita dozer Korean
specialties.

Fans of far eastern ' driental
cookery consequent, yet a
chance to sample an ther com-
plex and challenging « uisine
from the endlessly ini--resting
repertoire ¢: Pacific fs coun-
tries,

Korean meals are ton
small: condiments, sie dishes,
and assorted accoute nents
accompany barbecued rieats
and other main entree items on
large platters or centt.d serving
dishes so that portion. of each
can be combined as tre individ-
ual diner desires.

ft makes for greats ommunal
eating without the striry overkill
and leftover melange that can so
often mar Cninese tood feasts.

Korean otferings at Da-Som

NEWS pitoto Nel! Lucents

KOREAN COOKING ... Sei Oh (seated) and chef Dongikil
Cheong present a feast cf Japanese and Korean dishes at the
new Da-Som restaurant on Lonsdale Avenue in North Van.

have an audible Oriental swing
— Bibim Bop, Japchae Bop,
Bulgogi Combo — and a piquant
delivery.

Nakji ($13.50), for example, is
spicy pan-fried octopus with
assorted vegetables, anc Pa Jeon
($9.50) presents assorted pan-
fried seafood accompanied with
a special Korean veggie pancake.

Our sampled Kal Bi Combo
opened with a bow! of soul-
warming Miso soup. The main
dish included a small serving of
excellent barbecued beet ribs
accompanied by two varieties of
bean sprouts. julienne carrots
and rice.

A side order of Korean kimchi
($1.50), a hot-bleoded Oriental
version of sauerkraut, added fiery
zest to the ribs.

Da-Som’'s Japanese dishes are
all well made, though nothing is
outstanding. Its selection of
Korean specialties, however, sets
it apart from the rest of the sushi
pack.

Portions are small, but they
are many and Da-Som’s serving,
staff is uniformly gracious and
attentive,

So if you have yet to wade
into Lonsdale’s Oriental food
tlood, take an initial plunge at
Da-Som.

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