Emma's Torch in The New Yorker

SYKO’s Syrian and Korean Cuisines, Side by Side

“The best thing to eat at SYKO, a restaurant that opened last year, in Windsor Terrace, is one of the best things I’ve ever eaten: the Fatboy, an evocatively, and accurately, named sandwich. A thick, crisp-edged Korean-style scallion pancake with a mochi-like texture (thanks to potato starch) is layered with sticky white rice, frilly romaine lettuce, a few crunchy batons of danmuji (sweet pickled daikon, dyed neon yellow with turmeric), and a choice of protein—beef bulgogi, chicken bulgogi, or fried tofu strewn with kimchi. Then it’s tightly rolled into a stubby cylinder and sliced in half, to be doctored to taste with the house-made gochugaru-based yangnyeomjang sauce… READ MORE