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[swetepete]

There is a good Nepalese restaurant in Incheon, very close to Bupyong Station, and another in Bucheon very close to Bucheon Station. Both are run by really, really nice people who would love to sell you curry and nan and stuff.

The Bupyong One: Exit Bupyong Station by the front staircase, and go right. Walk past the McDonald's and the KFC and keep going. It is right on that street, about a hundred meters/yards away. It's called First Nepal.

The Bucheon One: Exit Bupyong Station by the front exit. Walk directly away from the station, about 200 meters straight down that big road. Turn around; if you can see the station still, you are doing good. If you can't, you are lost. Go eat a Lotteria burger and cry.

So; turn your back on the station again. Keep going straight; after passing through the first major intersection with traffic lights and crosswalks and all that, take a right. The Anapurna restaurant is on the first street parallel to the big one you just walked down. It's a quiet seedy little side street, but don't fret; it's got curry on it. Anyway, walk down that little street parallel with the big street, still going away from the station. Soon you will see Anapurna. It's a second floor restaurant and has a couple of signs around it. All told it's maybe 300 meters-yards.

If you don't see it, maybe you went too far; you can follow that street all the way back to the station though, and you're sure to see it as you go.

Hope this works for you. I hope those of you who like south asian food can find these places.

BTW, I don't even know the people who own the places, particularly. I just like them and their food, and I'm moving away soon so I wanted to help 'em out if I could. They're not as easy to find as your kfc's and outbacks, but they're certain to do better things with your money.

[candide]

Yeah, the Nepalese one is all right I suppose if you like small portions. For 8000 won that mutton curry of theirs is ridiculous; even a Sudanese orphan would gripe about the five pieces of meat and the serving bowl being smaller than an ashtray.

It is tasty though, I'll give the jittery chef that quivers when you say hello to him that much...

[swetepete]

Yeah, it's true that the meat portions there aren't exactly massive, but if you add rice and/or a piece of nan, it's all good for twelve bucks and you come away stuffed.
I suppose that chef dude maybe was a little jumpy. He probably thought you were going to eat him. Had you threatened to, he probably would've gone out and killed another goat for you, though.

[candide]

I do agree that the food was good, but it is not filling at all. The staff are super-friendly, the place is nice and clean; it is not a good deal though - christ man, the same dish would cost like 20 cents in Nepal, haha.

[KumaraKitty]

[rocklee]

[swetepete]

quite right--i meant to say 'bucheon station' when talking about how to get to anapurna. cheers--

[Ekuboko]

[ella]

Isn't it a different kind of rice? Usually Indian restaurants serve basmati.

[munji]

[ella]

:O That would taste so wrong with Indian food!

[Merlyn]

I just wanted to comment on the Indian restaurant near Bucheon station. I went there tonight for dinner after finding out that it was there. Thanks to the OP. I really appreciated the notice. Otherwise, I would never have known. I thought it was great. Actually, it was fantastic and I imagine I'll have to make a weekly trip there from now on. I've been to a few other Indian restaurants throughout Seoul and I agree with what others have said. A lot of them were over priced. Curry for 10 000/14 000 won, rice for 4 000 won, nan for 4000 won, and drinks on top of that. And as some have mentioned the portion sizes have often been small. Not here though, so don't worry. Curry is 8 000 won for an oven spaghetti sized bowl. 1000 won for a nice plate of rice and another 2500 for buttered nan bread, which by-the-way looks close the size of large pizza. Fantastic. I certainly didn't leave hungry. Sure the restaurant doesn't have the best furniture but it does have the best Indian food for the price and size that I've had in Korea. Again, thanks to the OP for posting that today.

[rocklee]

[KumaraKitty]

If you like garlic, I highly recommend the garlic naan at Annapurna! It's buttered and then covered with finely diced garlic. Yummy! Maybe not a date food unless you're both eating it, but garlic is good in my books!

[candide]