Nampo Seolleongtang — Restaurant in Busan

Dining Experience @ Nampo Seolleongtang. . Ambience is modern and casual. The brightly lit place lined with sturdy wooden furnishings is a haven for customers looking for warm hearty beef soup, particularly during cold weather. . Service is friendly and professional. Staff can communicate in limited English, but the menu has helpful English translations and pictures. Staff will offer recommendations and advice, and I note they clean up efficiently when diners leave. . Food is Korean cuisine, focused on Seolleongtang / Beef Bone Soup and Galbitang / Beef Short Ribs Soup, made using a rich stock from beef bones boiled over hours. Quality is above average. Portions are medium to large for individuals. Prices are reasonable, budget about KRW ₩14,000 / SGD $14 per person. . Loved the Galbitang / Beef Short Ribs Soup (KRW ₩13,000), with its robust soup / broth made from boiling beef bones over hours, resulting in a lovely meaty savoury vegetal herbal sweet nutty flavour. Garnished with chunky fall-off-the-bone tender beef short ribs with meaty savoury salty flavour, crisp green onions with vegetal sweet flavour, slippery mung bean starch cellophane noodles with neutral flavour, soft red dates with fruity earthy sweet flavour, crunchy golden mushrooms with vegetal earthy sweet flavour, and wispy chicken egg strips with eggy sweet flavour. A luxurious dish. . Loved the Seolleongtang / Beef Bone Soup (KRW ₩9,000), with its robust soup / broth made from boiling beef bones over hours, resulting in a lovely meaty savoury vegetal herbal sweet nutty flavour. Garnished with thin chewy beef brisket slices with meaty savoury flavour, crisp green onions with vegetal sweet flavour, and slippery mung bean starch cellophane noodles with neutral flavour. A simple dish. . The Galbisal Mandu / Beef Rib Finger Dumplings (KRW ₩3,000) features finely minced beef rib fingers and green onions within a mandu dumpling wrapper. Steamed and served with a light soy sauce for dipping, the dumpling is tender and juicy with a soft bite to texture, carrying meaty salty savoury vegetal sweet flavour. A sprinkling of crisp white sesame seeds and crisp black sesame seeds lend a nutty...

I was a foreign customer who dined at this restaurant yesterday with my friend. Since I am allergic to beef, the only thing I could order was dumplings, while my friend ordered beef soup with rice. Perhaps because we ordered only a small amount of food, one of the staff rolled her eyes and made an indescribably disdainful sound.

Her hostility was so obvious that ignoring it would have felt like disrespecting ourselves. So, we chose to acknowledge her rudeness and respond appropriately—we decided to leave. At that point, our food had just been ordered, and we hadn’t even touched the side dishes or water. However, the staff refused to let us cancel the order and became even more aggressive, as if she were the one being wronged.

Before leaving, I used a translation app to tell her that her rude attitude made us feel uncomfortable, but she simply nodded impatiently. We have no idea how she described the situation afterward, nor did we get the chance to let other staff or customers know what happened. That’s why I’m sharing this experience now—I still believe this staff owes...

Been looking for an open restaurant that didn’t feel like tourist trap for a while, many places close earlier than expected in Busan. This one was great: the soup was delicious as well as the biggest dumplings I’ve ever eaten. We filled up our stomachs for like 13k won/person (~10€) which felt like a robbery. They accept Apple Pay, which is great. This is the place you are looking for when it’s 10pm, it’s cold outside and you want to eat in a cozy place, nothing fancy but...