Seoul Food - Korea
Dec 2, 2010, 3:49 am
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Is the Benihana at Seoul still around? I've been wanting Japanese teppanyaki like for-freakin'-ever and I haven't been able to find such a place in either Seoul or Busan.
I never went to Benihana when I was in the states, ugh my standards are getting way too low.
I never went to Benihana when I was in the states, ugh my standards are getting way too low.
Dec 2, 2010, 4:18 am
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Dec 6, 2010, 4:34 pm
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I've heard that there's one at Nonhyun Station but I'm not sure.
Dec 22, 2010, 11:22 am
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Someone upthread mentioned the Myeongdong area. I highly recommend Myeongdong Gyoja (also, last known working English link), and it happens to be one of the few places in the area where the line snakes out the door with locals on weekend mornings. Some online reviews consider it overrated, but I personally enjoy it.
Menu is simple; go for the kalguksu (knife-cut wheat noodles) soup and maybe a side of mandoo (dumplings). Orders are taken fairly quickly, so the line moves fast.
Menu is simple; go for the kalguksu (knife-cut wheat noodles) soup and maybe a side of mandoo (dumplings). Orders are taken fairly quickly, so the line moves fast.
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Dec 26, 2010, 2:34 am
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Lots of domestic, Chinese and Japanese shopping toursts at Gyoja's so be prepared for big crowds and busy staff.
IMHO all the better Myeong-dong area restaurants are on the Namsan side, i.e where the Prince and Pacific hotels are located. That is where the local office workers eat daily as opposed to the touristy offerings on the shopping streets.
IMHO all the better Myeong-dong area restaurants are on the Namsan side, i.e where the Prince and Pacific hotels are located. That is where the local office workers eat daily as opposed to the touristy offerings on the shopping streets.
Apr 25, 2011, 9:49 am
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There is one famous Korean BBQ restaurant I know as a local. It's called "Byeokje Galbi" in Bangi station(subway). They serve fresh meat from Korea and you can roast it as much as you want in front of you by yourself. kinda expensive compared to other Korean BBQ restaurants but I think it worhts it.
The restaurant is combined with a first rate butchershop (you select the meats from the butchers counter first) and apparently people who just sold their car to one of the scrap shops in the area come here to blow their hard earned won away. Really prime meats and some tasty fish soup etc. afterwards if that wasn't enough. And the soju flows freely.
May 1, 2011, 3:57 am
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....it's really too bad I have to stay away from beef since I'm trying to lose weight and all...13 pounds and counting.
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May 9, 2011, 3:44 pm
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Now that you say bistro, I so want a big, bloody steak frites the size of my head....every steakhouse I go to overcooks it. Even the Korean BBQ places (which I stay away from since they cut the $50/pound beef so thin it disintegrates the second it hits the pan...it's terrible what Koreans do to good beef here. I've been to a restaurant that actually made knife marks so deep the steak looked like a waffle.....and this on a TENDERLOIN!!!!)
....it's really too bad I have to stay away from beef since I'm trying to lose weight and all...13 pounds and counting.
....it's really too bad I have to stay away from beef since I'm trying to lose weight and all...13 pounds and counting.
May 12, 2011, 8:24 am
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May 22, 2011, 3:29 am
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Or offal. Just had a rather boozy lunch in an offal restaurant just next to the Pacific Hotel near Myeong-Dong with a business partner. The place is on the opposite side of the pork knuckle joint mentioned earlier in this thread.
Delicious tongue and stomach, accompanied by microbrewed Korean rice wine, good rice and side dishes including a complimentary miso stew.
Delicious tongue and stomach, accompanied by microbrewed Korean rice wine, good rice and side dishes including a complimentary miso stew.
May 23, 2011, 10:18 pm
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Or offal. Just had a rather boozy lunch in an offal restaurant just next to the Pacific Hotel near Myeong-Dong with a business partner. The place is on the opposite side of the pork knuckle joint mentioned earlier in this thread.
Delicious tongue and stomach, accompanied by microbrewed Korean rice wine, good rice and side dishes including a complimentary miso stew.
Delicious tongue and stomach, accompanied by microbrewed Korean rice wine, good rice and side dishes including a complimentary miso stew.
May 24, 2011, 12:09 am
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Yes, the pork place has two storefronts, one a few meters towards Namsan.
May 24, 2011, 8:15 am
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OK, facing the pork resto. I understand fully now. Will look out for it on the next visit. Thanks.