a neW BegiNNinG: Korea Late Winter Sonata 2015 -Seoul

What's a visit to Korea where you don't get to eat their famous BBQ? I texted partner who is also in Seoul for ideas since it seems that all she and her hubs did was to eat in Seoul. Hahha

She told us a restaurant in Meyongdong but said it will be quite crowded.

Google it but was not impressed by the food.

Lovely shoes display

Accidentally came across a blog writing about Palsaik Samgyupsal which essentially meant 8 colours pork belly in Korean. It looks interesting and we set out to find it in Sinchon.

Wasn't easy since the blog gave the wrong exit or rather pretty hazy directions.

I'm going to try my best to give the directions here but no guarantee since we also took quite a long while to find the place.

Directions:

1). Take Line 2 to Sinchon station.
2). Take Exit 6
3). Go straight till you see a 7-11 at the end of the street
4). Cross the street and walk straight (if you are facing the road, should be walk up the right side).
5). The shop is at basement of the Kia Motors building.

Number of days in Operation

We reached at around 6pm ++ and there were plenty of space in the shop. Didn't take long for someone to come sit us down and take orders.

The speciality here is of course to order the 8 colour set where pork bellies are seasoned in 8different seasonings namely Ginseng, Wine, Pine Needles sauce, Garlic Sauce, Herb, Curry, Soy bean and Hot Pepper.

A set of this costs KRW 30,000 and it good for 2 pax.

Menu

Side dish and drinks selection

Besides the pork bellies, there was a big pot of soup with seafood, tofu and lots of veggies in side along.

Soup served first

The waiters/ waitress here will help you to cook your food and basically you just need to sit back and relax while waiting for the food to be cooked.

Heating up Kimchi and bean spouts

Chilli paste to go along with meat

Veggies for wrapping the meat

A huge tray of veggies are also served so that you can wrapped your cooked meat inside to eat along with garlic and mushrooms.

But be warned, some of it tastes really bitter and it covers the meat's taste.

Meat cooking

There's a sequence to cook the meat from mild to strong taste. No worries since the waiter will help you to cook accordingly.

Cooking in progress

The meat will be cut to bite sizes where you can wrap up in the veggies. Some of the veggies did actually help take away the oil in the meats. But it's quite filling to eat with the veggies too.

Towards the end, we gave up and just eat meat only since we were getting full.

Spicy seafood stew

And oh the spicy seafood stew is good! It's just like another dish ordered though it came along with the set meal. Was a pleasant surprise.

Cutting the meat

2nd round of cooking

You can also store your bags in your seats that double up as storage bins. Since this shop is enclosed, it is best that you keep your jacket in it too though it doesn't help much in my case. Still smell like a walking kitchen when we went out.

Storage bins

You can also order the different flavoured pork ala-carte at KRW 10,000 each portion. But unless you have special preference for any flavours else it will be better to order the set meal.