Nadeulmok, on the road that climbs the hill on the opposite side of Garosu-gil in Sinsa-dong, is a very ordinary restaurant I have been going to for a long time. The name is so generic that even a search could not tell me whether it is a chain or not. These days I mostly go when I work late, and while it is nothing special, I am posting it just to keep a record that I ate this kind of thing too. It is not like I am a restaurant blogger anyway.
Jeyuk-bokkeum (spicy stir-fried pork)
A bit spicy, a bit sweet, an orthodox jeyuk-bokkeum. The pork used for jeyuk-bokkeum is a lean cut, so even domestic pork is very cheap, yet the price at restaurants is something else.. So I usually avoid menu items like this where you feel short-changed, but when you go with a group you end up ordering all sorts of things, so I get to eat it every now and then.
Donkatsu
This place was originally famous for its enormous donkatsu, but as the price went up the size shrank. Forgetting what made them in the first place.. Well, the people who come will keep coming anyway.
Kimchi jjigae
This one is not bad either, as a filler on the menu. Looking around the restaurants in this neighbourhood, there are not many that serve genuinely bad food. Whether that is just this neighbourhood or Korea as a whole, I could not say.
Bibim-guksu
Standard snack-shop noodles.
Odeng-guksu (fish cake noodles)
I like the broth of the odeng-guksu. It tastes like the broth they used to serve with odeng at the street stalls, but for some reason the street stalls these days do not seem to get this flavour anymore.
The meat that comes with the noodles
Noodles alone leave you feeling empty, so a side like this comes with them.
Nothing spectacular, but every now and then I get the urge to drop by. A glass of soju with the odeng-guksu would be nice, but since it is a rice place they do not seem to sell soju.
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