Chorney-Booth: Zipbab serves a Korean taste of home in Marda Loop

When I started writing this column over eight years ago, one of my first articles was about a neighbourhood Korean restaurant. At the time, Korean food wasn’t exactly scarce in Calgary — one of our most celebrated chefs was and still is Roy Oh, whose defunct Anju restaurant redefined the way many of us thought of modern Korean cuisine — but we had yet to see the onslaught of Korean concepts that have popped up over the last five years or so. Since then, a Korean bbq spot, fried chicken place, or tasty bibimbap or noodle restaurant seems to be opening somewhere in the city weekly. It’s more Korean food than a humble food writer can keep up with. Read More