Dec 13 2008
Eating Global Vancouver – Jang Mo Jib Korean Restaurant
The second of the Eating Global Vancouver student film series, this film concentrates on the Moon family and their Korean restaurant chain, Jang Mo Jib. Through interviews with the father and daughter, we see different generations of a family-run business, and get rare behind the scenes interviews at the factory where kimchi, BBQ beef, and bone soup is prepared for the restaurants. Featuring a blend of authentic Korean dishes appealing to a variety of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and non-Asian customers, Jang Mo Jib reveals the challenge of family restaurants in Vancouver.
This film series grew out of one of our most popular classroom projects, in which students form groups and choose to research one of the myriad of restaurants that make Vancouver such a wonderful city for eating. Creating websites that feature interviews with the families (almost invariably global migrants to Vancouver) who run the restaurant, as well as in depth explorations of the restaurants themselves as sites of community interaction, our students combine ethnography with historical research in the Vancouver archives to create a rich portrait of each restaurant as a microcosm of Global Vancouver. Revealing the history of the restaurant’s location through Vancouver history and the changing demographics of its neighborhood, these research projects lead us to see in a new light the restaurants at which we eat.
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Duration : 0:9:56
did that guy just …
did that guy just say that his menu is more traditional or better than the restaurants in seoul!? They still practice almost every korean cuisine that was made since hundreds of yrs back. Court cuisine practiced in palaces are still preserved today & getting popular esp around tourists. things that are super unknown and rare outside korea r pretty common in it, like snake cuisine, 50 yr old fermented stingray, yukhoe (raw meat for comsuming), & other things that this guy probly never heard of.
korean bbq is …
korean bbq is getting popular but the korean food that’s found outside of korea is probly about 5% of what is in korea. any good cooking korean grandma probly knows how to make more korean dishes than that restaurant ever had in it’s whole history.
here’s the problem …
here’s the problem i see with a lot of asian restaurants in the greater vancouver area: they don’t have their menus and signs in english… if they worked on that they could more than double their business!
what the are u …
what the are u talking about……it is translated into english u dumb !!!!
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Wow, calm down. …
Wow, calm down. Maybe they went to restaurants that had the menu and signs in one language, who knows. Either way that tone is completely unnecessary.
Man..I’m sure the …
Man..I’m sure the owner of jak mob jib is baller!!!! Cash!!!yeah!!!
i wanna to
i wanna to
Baller!!!…for …
Baller!!!…for sure! I’m Korean/American from Chicago. If I’m ever in Vancouver, I’ll definitely check this place out. Man, there are alot of Korean restaurants in Chicago also, unfortunately, I can’t recommend any particular one because they’re all so-so, in my opinion. I’m a spoiled brat I guess, my grandmother, mother, aunts are the best cooks/chefs, but they don’t want to get into the restaurant biz. Too bad…