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[Tiger Beer]

[Babayaga]

[morituri]

Tiger Beer wrote:

ALL of these look good.. are the menus in Korea or Russian or English or a combination of all 3?

The menus are in Russian or Uzbek. Nelya Vasya also has a Korean menu (handwritten by yours truly), Krai Rodnoy has a Russian menu with Korean subtitles, Samarkand has English subtitles, done rather idiosyncratically, GWB style, some items being mapped to burritos and tacos. My Friend has a Russian menu only, Ala To has a restaurant above the bakery which again has a Russian menu only. If you give me a couple of days I will go and write out an English menu for them.

If you are going with a s/o, be forewarned and do not expect the Hermitage Museum in terms of decor. For a swankier place, with decor done in best Kangnam Missee style, there is a Russian restaurant in Seogyodong called Ruslan, in the Russian Centre, it is a Korean female interior decorator's idea of what a Russian restaurant should be like (babushkas on the shelves etc), but the food is twice as expensive and may not be any better. It is the sort of place yuppie Kangnam couples can go and park their Beemer and pretend to be Zhivago and Lara.

[bobsbarricades]

thank you so much for the info! Wish I could find a place like this in Daejeon!

[Ukon]

Tip of advice about the uzbekistan restourants near dongdaemun...about 3-4 of them are actually the same restourant with the same menu, but a different building....they even use the same kitchen. Half the time I would get my meal from the front door.....It's great food, especially the kebab, but if your trying to eat at all the restourants there, keep that in mind....I've been there about 5-6 times and basically ate at the same place each time unknowingly.

[valkerie]

Great thread. Cheers to all who have posted info.

Just wondering if they are open on a weekend lunchtime....

[Thunndarr]

[valkerie]

Cheers Thundarr.

I think it wd be a good idea for a future ladies lunch. I live outside of Seoul so hard to get in to check places in person.

If anyone has any phone numbers that wd be much appreciated. (And some hints on the Russian writing hehhee).

[Asianista]

Name in cyrillic:
Гостиный Двор
Phone: 02 2275 7501

It's on a second floor and it's easy to miss. The sign is orange.

I've been to the place several times and I love their food. Feels like you're not in Korea for a couple hours! The crowd is always entertaining.

The staff is cool and they will go out of their way to understand you. One of the girls that works there speaks good English.

If anybody can make a translation of their menu, that would be awesome!!!!!!!!

Seoul Eats review: http://www.seouleats.com/2009/01/blog-post_23.html

Beeeeeer that's really yummy and such a change from the local stuff:
Baltika (3000-3500 won for a big bottle, careful, it hits faster than Cass.) Comes in 3 differents 'numbers':
3 - Blonde beer, light, good but not that special compared to the following.
6 - Porter style dark beer, rich and filling and oh soo good.
9 - A kind of darker blonde beer (could be a mix of numbers 3 and 6, both taste and color wise, a 4.5 then?), rich also and very smooth, by far my favorite of the three.

Food: I LOVE their beef stroganoff and its mashed potatoes.
Also, Captain Jack meat, a big patty of well cooked pork meat covered with a mountain of shredded potatoes mixed with mayo, dusting of cheese, and baked in the oven. It probably contains at least 1000 calories, but it's worth every single one of them...

Last time my friend had the devious idea of ordering some kind of crepe filled with rhum flavored soft cheese.... It was soooo good but we felt soooo fat after eating that!!!

Will go back soon!

[earthbound14]

[valkerie]

Thanks for the new info

[soviet_man]

Wow this thread is a blast from the past ...

Only thing to really add is that Dongdaemun has been trending more Mongolian than Russian in recent times with a little Uzbek influence

Russia town in Busan is probably still the best chance of finding most authentic Russian meals in Korea. For a small extra fee, often times they can set you up with a pretty Russian girl afterwards as well

[Yaya]

I went to Samarkand but ate the Uzbek stuff, namely beef and a meat pie. The food was good but the staff speak little or no English, just Uzbek, Russian and Korean.

I'm pretty clueless about Russian or Central Asian cuisine so I don't really know what constitutes good food from those two regions.

[Mo7684]

A list of Russian restaurant in Seoul and Gyeonggi-do with directions can be found here

http://thealienbank.com/allrestaurants/category/european/russian