Within three weeks, they were taking orders for a hundred bowls of bibimbap a day. They call the company 2 Korean Girls, and they’ve had unbelievable success. We already have those wheels in motion for world domination. They top many of their bowls with a fried egg, shaped like a heart. If you haven’t had it, bibimbap is sort of like Korean fried rice, with combinations of vegetables and meats and sauces, which the two sisters perfected with help from their partner, none other than renowned Chef Allen Susser.
Basically, they rent space in a catering kitchen and then offer their bowls of bibimbap for pickup or delivery. They opened about a month ago in what they call a “ghost kitchen” in Coconut Grove.
Bibimbap is a korean dish similar to fried rice, with a mixture of meat, veggies and sauces. This summer, when all of us were ordering a whole lot more takeout, they realized the time was right. And so that’s how the Kaminski sisters came about the idea a few years ago to open a delivery-only bibimbap kitchen. While as kids we don’t appreciate what makes us different, as adults that’s often what we cherish the most. Please, can you just have me bring Oreos? I can’t give this to anyone else.” Jennifer remembers how in elementary school all the kids would bring in treats on their birthdays to share with the other kids, and when her mom sent her to school with a Korean sushi roll called gimbap-seaweed wrapped around sweetened rice and pickled vegetables-she couldn’t have been more embarrassed. It’s a dish the two of them ate growing up in Indiana, where their Korean-born mom would often make dishes from back home, which wasn’t always appreciated. Please, can you just have me bring Oreos? I can’t give this to anyone else. It came about when a simple thought occurred to them: why don’t more Americans appreciate the humble-but-amazing bibimbap (bee-bum-BAHP’)? Jennifer and Michele Kaminski had actually been thinking about their admittedly abnormal dining concept for a few years now but just never took that first step. Maybe my favorite example came just weeks ago when two sisters in Miami finally tried their crazy idea and watched it totally go nuts. It is undeniably a rough time in the restaurant industry, and so it would be easy to end the #worstyearever by feeling like your Michelin-starred tasting menu concluded with a McRib sandwich.īut there was good that happened in Florida dining in 2020, bright spots of ingenuity that kept industry folks working and kept us hungry patrons well-fed. (From left) Michele Kaminski, Chom “Sunny” Kaminski and Jennifer Kaminski are the masterminds behind the 2 Korean Girls venture.