Mongtan, Straw-Fire Grilled Meat in Samgakji
Mongtan is a hugely famous place, but reservations are notoriously hard to get, and these days I don’t have anyone to line up schedules with for a place like this, so I hadn’t even been thinking ab…
Mongtan is a hugely famous place, but reservations are notoriously hard to get, and these days I don’t have anyone to line up schedules with for a place like this, so I hadn’t even been thinking ab…
There is a little cluster of good restaurants next to Won Daegutang in Samgakji. One of them is Pyongyangjip, which is famous for its naejang gomtang, offal gomtang. The front entrance It sits right on a cros…
Won Daegutang in Samgakji has been famous for ages, and it still is. The odds of a place like this letting you down are very low. These days I can’t afford a bad meal, so I mostly go after places like th…
I heard there was a great place in Samgakji, so we stopped by for a second round. I haven’t had proper hongeo (fermented skate) all that often, so it was a good chance. Seasoned radish This one was ju…
I went to a tasty Chinese restaurant near Samgakji. Hongma Banjeom is a name made by combining Hong Kong Banjeom + Macau Banjeom, and it’s a neighborhood Chinese place created by someone who is hugely fa…