Korean Job Discussion Forums

[benjaminthunderbolt]

So I enjoy frequenting the AYCE Tuna Restaurants in Korea, but what I don't enjoy is eating it the Korean way (i.e. with laver and sprouts). Is there a way to order it sushi-style, with rice/wasabi attached? Thanks.

[mike in brasil]

I like the AYCE tuna too. I've been to at least a dozen or more of those restaurants, but only a few of them made sushi as part of the menu.

If you speak enough Korean then it shouldn't be too hard to find which places make sushi as an option.

The problem is I always feel obligated to sit through the whole progression they give you before they ask you want you want more of at the end.

I just don't like those cuts that include the white cartlidge-type stuff.

I wish they included salmon too.

[soomin]

I would highly doubt you would be able to find a place that served it sushi-style... The whole point is to eat as much tuna as you can, so even side dishes are used sparingly (along with those tuna-drinks... soju with fermented tuna eyes? Not delicious... T.T)... It's kind of like going to a Chinese buffet back in the States and loading up your plate with white rice. People would wonder why you would waste your stomach space on that, lol~ They do sell (for about 10,000 won) some rice porridge with abalone... but I don't even know if regular rice is available... Maybe going to a Japanese restaurant would better suit you? Or a seafood buffet? They serve things like that, from what I've heard, at the chain "SeaHouse," along with lots of other things~ It can be pricey, but ayce tuna is, too, lol.

Good luck finding something you like ^.^

[wylies99]

What are these restaurants, for those of us who haven't tried them?

[YTMND]

All you can eat tuna places serve the raw tuna or is it cooked? If you are looking for just raw, that is "sashimi", not sushi. Sushi is more like kimbab.

Have you tried Korean sashimi, called "hui"? I couldn't find any decent sushi places in Korea, but the hui is excellent. If you haven't yet, you should try it.

http://www.zenkimchi.com/FoodJournal/korean-food-101/more-than-one-hui/

[NYC_Gal 2.0]

[YTMND]

[NYC_Gal 2.0]

[Nismo]

[mike in brasil]

agreed.

only in Japan are they gonna do it right.

Ahh.. food pohn~

[northway]

There's actually a really good conveyor belt place in the basement of Times Square that doesn't Koreanize too much and allows the fish to speak for itself.

[NYC_Gal 2.0]

[DejaVu]

You don't need to use the sprouts/old kimchi/etc. with the tuna. The server might try to show you the "correct" way to eat it, but just explain that you don't give a darn.

Anyways, I love the tuna restaurants as well as the gold-littered soju/eye drink.

[Steelrails]

Eating the tuna with seaweed and sprouts is like eating BBQ with leaves. That may be the proper way to do it, but 90% of Korean people I've dined with either only do that sometimes or just skip it all together. Your first time out dining with someone they may make a big deal, but once you get to know them watch and people just take the meat/fish straight off and maybe dunk it on sauce or eat it straight.

If you want ChoBap, just get a side of rice and slap a piece of tuna on top.

Salmon would be great though. Whatever Korean Tuna place brings in the Salmon is going to score big/

[sojusucks]

Could someone post a like to this restaurant. I would like to learn where to find them and to see a menu. Thanks.