Disastrous Dduk: Ahn-Joo

Ahn-Joo made my co-workers and me really sad.

The Korean snack bar on wheels sounded so promising.

Bulgogi bowl -- Korean BBQ beef, garlic fried rice, spicy pickled cucumbers ($8).

This was the winner amongst our selection, which is pretty pathetic because it was only ok at best.

Spicy chilled buckwheat noodles, Fuji apples, Korean vegetables ($5) and bacon-wrapped rice cylinders, jalapeño ponzu ($3).

The soba was utterly forgettable. The bacon-wrapped rice cylinders were nice little bites, but we'd had higher hopes for them.

Spicy chicken and Korean pepper skewers ($3).

Awful. Nuggets of dry. Like Sahara dry.

Korean nachos -- fried rice cakes, smoke chile queso, soy-braised pork, kimchee salsa ($7).

Terrible. I love dduk. Love! I hated this. The pork was palatable, but the dduk was so wrong. So dessicated. So rock-hard. We could've pelted each other with them. They were a far cry from the wondrous chewiness that they should've been.

Fuji apple egg roll, ginger mascarpone ($5).

These were an acceptable end to the meal. Actually, they tasted kind of good, but I'm not sure if we enjoyed them simply because we ate them after that horrible mess of a dduk disaster.

If this meal was indicative of what Ahn-Joo always serves, I don't know how it stays in business.