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[IAMAROBOT]

Besides food you can get in any kimbap restaurant, what are some korean dishes that are ok to eat alone? i travel alone sometimes, but there are a lot of things i can't eat because the dishes are suited more for groups.

[ppcg4]

삼깊살 (samgyeopsal) is typically eaten with friends, but screw that. I'll eat it alone any day.

[RACETRAITOR]

Really? That's anti-social.

I'll go to fast food restaurants alone, and that's about it.

[Ilsanman]

Who the *beep* cares what others think? Eat alone if you want.

Many foods have a minimum of 2 orders. Either find a friend or eat 2 portions yourself.

[oldtactics]

Bibimbap is always a safe choice. Delicious and served for one.

[PeteJB]

Look for places students hang out, you can eat alone in those at ease perhaps?

[VanIslander]

anything



(in fact, if you actually LOOK you'll see a Korean (man, anyways... a solitary woman I cannot recall) eating alone plenty of times)

[PeteJB]

Yeah I often see a woman sitting by the window eating alone while walking past some places. Makes me feel like going in for a chat. Not that I would.

[Intrepid]

All the soups are single serving: samgyetang, seol-lung tang, etc.

A "drivers' restauarant" (기사식탕) is a great place to eat alone because, guess what?--everyone else is eating alone.

I'll also ask to sit at the bar at TGI or Outback, where it's somewhat normal to be alone--not Korean food, of course, but you could order the 15,000 kimchi fried rice...

[DCJames]

[crusher_of_heads]

[sojourner1]

This is one reason I do most of my cooking for myself, besides the fact there are few restaurants outside of Seoul I want to eat in. Where I'm at, there are about 50 sit down Korean restaurants and 2 bar with seating booth joints (Tudari) and 1 really nice European style restaurant with a real bar serving import beers surrounded by English antiques like metal knights in armor that no one ever sits at. It's a really nice place, especially styled in a way men like, but the staff can't even speak English and just act plain Ol strange and uptight in an uncomfortable way. I wish they'd take the corncobs out of their bums, relax, be nice, and enjoy life. They can't get the concept of a single man dropping in to the bar for a beer and fried fish after work. Total retards.

How else would you eat out if you didn't hang out with your co-workers every night? You phone in an order and a young man on a scooter shows up. I know my co-teacher does this since her husband doesn't allow her to go out while he hangs with his buddies so she drinks a 6 pack alone from a local grocery store. (I usually meet her at the store after my nightly workout.)

I'll eat out in Seoul at any international restaurant and even the national museum restaurant, many of which are nice places, but outside of Seoul, I'd only eat fast food and the few foreigner bars such as O'briens in Changwon. In Seoul, I actually got friendly and decent service at many places I went alone, but they were not Korean style. In Busan, I ate at a tiny sit on the floor Jalgalchi fish market restaurant alone that served grilled red snapper which was friendly and welcoming with no uptight tension from the adjumma. Go ahead, get out there, but not where groups of people in suits exclusively go.

[Rapport]

I went to a restaurant alone today, and it was fine. I actually really enjoyed myself because the food was so good. I just had to be comfortable with the fact that I was alone, and then it was fine. It's better than just sitting in my house and not eating what I want to eat.

[Ilsanman]

As you shouldn't.

[milspecs]

eating alone seems to be more common in SK than where I'm from (US)

I see waegooks and koreans eating alone all the time. male and female.