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[pixel8]

Or is that impossible?

It's an abomination how chinese food is portrayed here.... nothing but noodles in dark sauce and the seafood noodles.... which are never seen in asian countries.

I've had the worst sweet sour pork ever in COEX mall just the other day.... <shiver>

If there is real 'dim sum' here, I'm dying to know.

[alexh]

Okay, try Ho Lee Chow's in the Hamilton Hotel in Itaewon. I think that's the closest to HK style chinese food.

[keithinkorea]

[ajgeddes]

Down in Bundang, there is a Hong Kong restaurant with real Dim Sum, but other than that, most of the food on the menu is Koreanized Cantonese cuisine. Ho Lee Chow is complete North American style Chinese food, it's even owned by a North American, at least the Itaewon and Jamsil one is.

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

Try the Chinese restaurant at the top of the Hyundai dept. store in Sinchon.

Sparkles*_*

[Pericles77]

I'd like to know as well where real Chinese food can be had. Hell, I'd travel from Daegu all the way to Seoul just for a plate of Gong Bao Ji Ding or Guo Bao Rou. Isn't there a Chinatown in Incheon?

[crazylemongirl]

Some of my chinese friends from korean class suggested a place in myeongdong near the station... might have a look around some day soon!

[Pyongshin Sangja]

Jade Garden on the 3rd floor above The Body Shop and Caffee Pascucci at Kangnam Stn. has good food for not too muchee.

[Yaya]

Jackie's Kitchen by Gangnam station in Seoul is pretty good, but Jackie's in Itaewon has higher prices so I wouldn't advise going to the latter.

Czen is a chain of Asian noodle restaurants, but has a few good dishes like Beijing-style sweet and sour pork and Hong Kong fried rice. Give it a shot. It has branches by Ewha Woman's University, Gangnam, Apgujeong, Myeongdong, Sangam and Jongro. There is also a branch by the Dong Daegu train station.

[plattwaz]

[ekim]

A Chinese girl advised me that the real Chinatown is in Ansan, where I live. I've been to Incheon and it's really cool, too, though I thought it was still off a bit - the one restaurant I went to.

Ansan though is where all the factory workers live, so it's dirtier and less accomodating, while the Incheon one feels more touristy. The Ansan one is also filled with a lot of drunk Korean adjoucies, so it still cators to them and serves stuff like kimchi.

On the plus side though, you can find Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Pakistani, Indonesian, Mongolian, Russian, and Uzbekistani food in Ansan. It's called Chinatown, but I think it's A LOT more mixed than that.

[Hater Depot]

How do we get there?

[ekim]

Incheon Chinatown is easier to discover than Ansan's, and more accomodating. It's right outside the second last subway station on that line, going into Incheon.

The Ansan Chinatown is basically an immigrant town, much more than just Chinese, and so you have walk a ways into it, a few blocks back, to find the majority of the Chinese restaurants.

You'll reach all the other variety of restaurants before you reach the Chinese ones. But anyways, you go out the exit next to the huge street, go under the street to the other side, and then up the left side. From there you just walk straight down the middle of the neighborhood, exploring side streets and shiet.

If ya wanna play it safe, PM me and maybe we can get a friend to go with us and find something good to eat.

[Yaya]

The Kurogongdan district of Seoul (subway line 2) is supposed to have a few decent Chinese restaurants as it is home to many migrant workers from China (mostly ethnic Koreans). I haven't gone there but plan on checking it out.

I also saw the Chinatown in Busan near Busan Station but didn't go. Anyone been there?

[tzechuk]

Being hinese, I am critical of Chinese food.

We went to a few of the so called authentic places around Korea and none of them really was real Chinese.

The only place outside of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore that does REAL Chinese food is London's China Town.