After the closing night of Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood at the Grand

After the closing night of Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood at the Grand Illusion last night, I thought to myself, “Self, I could really go for an alcoholic yogurt beverage right now.” Then low and behold on the way to the car, I spied the inside of a dark little boite bespeckled with candlelight revealing several carafes of a milky, ethereal beverage. The Korean Cuisine Corp. (5210 University Ave. N.E.) is smaller than my studio apartment, opens at 9:00pm, and serves small plates of Korean bar food bites. The owners are ever so charming and it feels like the kind of place you find carved out in a market alley while traveling.The go-to pitchers of soju drink mostly contain fruit juice, pineapple and mango especially. (Soju is Korean vodka, shoju in Japanese, and it’s drunk to get dee-runk.) I shy from most liquor and dairy combinations. Chalk it up to my belief in a sustainable buzz, get sick before I get drunk. Not so with yogurt soju. You will get dee-runk. The beverage is like a very tangy Italian soda with about half the sweetness. I think I would enjoy this better on vacation, or on a beach, or with some bar-b-que, but for a quick pick me up before Jet City Improv or a movie, it’s perfect. (Pitchers of yogurt soju on special for $11.25 M-W-F.)