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createasaurus21
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Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 1:39 am Post subject: Best Jung-sik restaurant in Seoul |
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I'm looking for the best Jung-sik (정식) restaurant in Seoul. A restaurant with a mega assortment of the tastiest, freshest dishes. Any suggestions? I don't want anything modern or fusion-y, just the best, classic-style jung-sik. I'm willing to try a few places.
I've eaten at a few, all were good, but mediocre. I'm sure this city has top-shelf Jung-sik somewhere. |
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KiwiRob
Joined: 05 Feb 2013
Location: Wellington, New Zealand.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 3:27 am Post subject: |
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| What is Jung-sik? |
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createasaurus21
Joined: 22 Feb 2009
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 6:17 am Post subject: |
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Jung sik is a type of Korean food/restaurant where there is a set menu for one price. It's when they just keep bringing out an assortment of main dishes and side dishes. Maybe the Korean equivalent of prix fixe.
http://tinyurl.com/agkk8wt |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito
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| Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 3:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Get out of Seoul for jeongsik. The best jeongsik in Korea is at a place called HyangNaMu SikDang in the little bitty town of Suanbo in ChungcheongBuk-Do. Though being a couple hours and a bus transfer out of town, it's not exactly somewhere you can pop off to for a quick bite. |
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atwood
Joined: 26 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Underwaterbob wrote: |
| Get out of Seoul for jeongsik. The best jeongsik in Korea is at a place called HyangNaMu SikDang in the little bitty town of Suanbo in ChungcheongBuk-Do. Though being a couple hours and a bus transfer out of town, it's not exactly somewhere you can pop off to for a quick bite. |
I love posts like this. First, of course, is the accessiblity factor. Then there's the unstated claim that the poster has eaten at every jungsik restaurant in Korea. |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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| atwood wrote: |
| Underwaterbob wrote: |
| Get out of Seoul for jeongsik. The best jeongsik in Korea is at a place called HyangNaMu SikDang in the little bitty town of Suanbo in ChungcheongBuk-Do. Though being a couple hours and a bus transfer out of town, it's not exactly somewhere you can pop off to for a quick bite. |
I love posts like this. First, of course, is the accessiblity factor. Then there's the unstated claim that the poster has eaten at every jungsik restaurant in Korea. |
How do you know I haven't? |
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atwood
Joined: 26 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Underwaterbob wrote: |
| atwood wrote: |
| Underwaterbob wrote: |
| Get out of Seoul for jeongsik. The best jeongsik in Korea is at a place called HyangNaMu SikDang in the little bitty town of Suanbo in ChungcheongBuk-Do. Though being a couple hours and a bus transfer out of town, it's not exactly somewhere you can pop off to for a quick bite. |
I love posts like this. First, of course, is the accessiblity factor. Then there's the unstated claim that the poster has eaten at every jungsik restaurant in Korea. |
How do you know I haven't? |
I didn't say your claim was false. But since you want to make an issue of it, name all the jungsik restaurants, say in a small area, for example Inge-dong Suwon. |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 4:42 pm Post subject: |
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| atwood wrote: |
| Underwaterbob wrote: |
| atwood wrote: |
| Underwaterbob wrote: |
| Get out of Seoul for jeongsik. The best jeongsik in Korea is at a place called HyangNaMu SikDang in the little bitty town of Suanbo in ChungcheongBuk-Do. Though being a couple hours and a bus transfer out of town, it's not exactly somewhere you can pop off to for a quick bite. |
I love posts like this. First, of course, is the accessiblity factor. Then there's the unstated claim that the poster has eaten at every jungsik restaurant in Korea. |
How do you know I haven't? |
I didn't say your claim was false. But since you want to make an issue of it, name all the jungsik restaurants, say in a small area, for example Inge-dong Suwon. |
I only remember the important ones. |
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atwood
Joined: 26 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 5:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Underwaterbob wrote: |
| atwood wrote: |
| Underwaterbob wrote: |
| atwood wrote: |
| Underwaterbob wrote: |
| Get out of Seoul for jeongsik. The best jeongsik in Korea is at a place called HyangNaMu SikDang in the little bitty town of Suanbo in ChungcheongBuk-Do. Though being a couple hours and a bus transfer out of town, it's not exactly somewhere you can pop off to for a quick bite. |
I love posts like this. First, of course, is the accessiblity factor. Then there's the unstated claim that the poster has eaten at every jungsik restaurant in Korea. |
How do you know I haven't? |
I didn't say your claim was false. But since you want to make an issue of it, name all the jungsik restaurants, say in a small area, for example Inge-dong Suwon. |
I only remember the important ones. |
Dodging and weaving--will he score?
So how about a list of the important ones. Since jungsik restaurants are plentiful, I'd guess a list of 100 would suffice. I'm sure the OP would appreciate it. |
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fustiancorduroy
Joined: 12 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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There is a jung sik restaurant in Shinsa called Jungsik Dang (정식당). The name gets to the point. They also have a location in New York City. As may guess, it is a very upscale, gourmet Korean restaurant, but the lunch tasting course menu is only 40,000 won per person. The restaurant has been featured in both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal as a great restaurant, so I would say it is worth a look. Here is the website:
http://jungsik.kr/seoul/#index |
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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| atwood wrote: |
Dodging and weaving--will he score?
So how about a list of the important ones. Since jungsik restaurants are plentiful, I'd guess a list of 100 would suffice. I'm sure the OP would appreciate it. |
Agree with the overall point you're making in this thread, but damn! 100? Name all the jeongsik restaurants in Inge-dong? Damn! Love some of these ridiculous "prove your point" requests that get posted on an innocuous message board.
Why not go light, like the top 5 jeongsik restaurants in Korea? Or stick with the original point of the thread, ask for the best in Seoul? |
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