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sojusucks
Joined: 31 May 2008
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 Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 12:48 am Post subject: |
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| OP, thanks for posting a warning for the rest of us. |
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cj1976
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 2:50 am Post subject: |
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| When it comes to eating out in Korea, it's best to just resign yourself to sticking with Korean food. If you go to a 'foreign' food joint reminiscing about food back home, chances are you'll be disappointed. Koreans do the best Korean food in the world. Anything else is severely hit and miss. |
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Ruthdes
Joined: 16 Oct 2008
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 3:30 am Post subject: |
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| Binch Lover wrote: |
The Nepali place at Hongdae park called Yeti isn't bad. It's under Smoothie King.
I went to Petra recently for the first time. It was really excellent (although not in Hongdae, it's at Noksapyeong). |
I second Yeti in Hongdae. The set menu is good value and the curries were very nice. I had the mutton curry (can't remember what kind it was), and it was great, with a decent amount of meat. The tandoori wasn't good, but on par for Korea. I have never found an Indian restaurant in Korea that does tandoori well. The chicken is always really dry. They have hookah pipes, but if you get one, don't have the cappuccino one, it wasn't great.
I've only been to Petra once, but I remember loving it. I really must go back!
Another Indian place is Baba India in Gangnam (walk out of exit 3 for about 5 minutes and it's on the 2nd floor on your right) and Samseong-dong (basement of the Posco Building). The lunch set is about 12,000 won and includes soup, curry, naan and a yogurt dessert. The flavour of the curry is really nice, but the cheap price means it's pretty short on meat. Still, I go back, b/c it tastes good and the garlic naan is very nice. |
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redaxe
Joined: 01 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 10:45 am Post subject: |
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| cj1976 wrote: |
| When it comes to eating out in Korea, it's best to just resign yourself to sticking with Korean food. If you go to a 'foreign' food joint reminiscing about food back home, chances are you'll be disappointed. Koreans do the best Korean food in the world. Anything else is severely hit and miss. |
Actually, Korean food in North America is often higher-quality than Korean food in Korea. Why? Because it's made by Koreans who mostly emigrated back in the 1970's and 80's, and still prepare the food the old-fashioned way. Meanwhile in South Korea, the food has been modernized, fusionized, and they add all these artificial ingredients and stuff like high-fructose corn syrup. So it's not as good as it used to be. A lot of South Koreans will admit this.
They also seem to think that North Korea has better food, which is why so many restaurants in South Korea are named after cities in North Korea, e.g. Pyeongyang Bossam, Hamheung Naengmyeon, etc. |
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