The weather outside is frightful, but at least there are plenty of soup options. | Eat + Drink

For as long as humans had fire, they made soup. The premise is simple to its core: hot liquid, plus everything else – any scraps of meat, veggies, starch or whatever else you have lying around in your cave, err, fridge.

Since the invention of boiling water and adding things, humans have spent millennia perfecting soup. And luckily for Monterey County residents, you don’t have to go far to try a vast array of soups, right on time for the rainy/windy hell-storm this winter.

Soondobu jiggae, New Korea Restaurant

This Marina joint has a claim to fame as being the only local spot to specialize in soondae and its many iterations like soondae kook. We get it, not everyone wants to have blood sausage stuffed with rice noodles (your loss, really). This eatery should have another claim to fame, however. Their soondobu jiggae, sometimes translated as soon…