First, I don’t know if this is a silly question but I grew up in a vegetarian household and it’s my normal as an adult. I do eat meat but I’m rather picky about which, I like thin cut meats and fully cooked. I saw this picture of kbbq and thought, this I would scarf down. I assume this kind of marinate isn’t common a usual and so I guess I won’t ask about that but is there a way to know what cut of meat this is by looking? I don’t know if there’s a general standard across kbbq.
by Silent-Cat-8661
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Hard to tell with that lighting, but looks like it might be short rib sliced thin across the bone, with the bone removed.
Could be flank
Kalbi
If it’s bulgogi it’s likely Sirloin. It could be kalbi (short rib) without the bone also.
No way to tell bc this picture is lit horribly
That’s the great part, it barely matters! If you slice thin across the grain, marinate well, crisp it up on a grill, and slather in sauce, it’s all pretty much gonna come out like that, pretty delicious. Just think of it as warm moist jerky.
I cut that is very common in Chinese food is flap meat. It often doesn’t make it to your corner butcher shop due to restaurant demand.
It looks like beef kalbi or beef bulgogi, both are amazing!
Don’t know the kind, but it suuure looks good!
Dark meat
Most of the time KBBQ is Kalbi which is a special cut of beef short rib that get butterflied and butterflied again to become very thin, and then get marinaded and grilled at high heat to make it very tender.
This looks a lot more like JBBQ, and leans more to Gyu-tan (tongue)
However the character looks Korean for “First Meal”, so I side with people on Kalbi w/no bone.
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