During our visit to New York City a little while ago, we were invited to bring one of our friends and check out the food at the city’s best Korean: Her Name is Han. The restaurant ranks just below the top 100 NYC restaurants on Tripadvisor, holds a Certificate of Excellence, and received myriads of excellent reviews since its opening in 2015. Her Name is Han avoids all fancy fusion gimmicks and mere focus on effects and shocking combinations of ingredients. Instead, it mainly aims to offer traditional Korean home-cooking (‘soul food’) to the Korean-American immigrant community and Korean travellers and temporary residents in town, while non-Koreans are very warmly welcomed too, of course. Nils, an old friend of mine who has also written guest posts for this blog (e.g. on Kalmykia), arrived at the same time as Ms B & me, a few minutes early, and we entered the […]