Very close to AREX Unseo station and is hidden at the 2nd of creppy old building. When walking to the 2nd level you will see 3 restaurants and this (chicken ginseng soup) Samgaetang restaurant with a chicken soup picture on the door. Ginseng chicken soup is amazing( W$ 16,000), kimchi side dish is also very good, and came with a plate of deep-fried chicken gizzard which tastes delicious to go with korean chilly paste and garlic slices. At the end a glass of ginseng rice wine to sip is the tremendous ending for this meal. Regardless the out dated indoor decoration of this restaurant, food is the significant point of all (host and hostess are no smile and no welcome to guests but I think it is okay. As long as chicken soup is...
Read moreThis restaurant is located on the second floor of a busy interset. The entry is hard to find; the previous reviews really help me find it. They only sell one thing: chicken jingseng soup. It has a whole baby chicken, stuff with some sort of rice, cook with jingseng roots in the broth. It's a very light/mild flavor of Korean soup, if you like this kind of herbal soup. It came with lots side dishes (see pictures in this review) and a jingseng liquor. The liquor is definitely has stronger jingseng flavor and certainly worth to order extra if you really like it. The first one was on the house. The whole set cost less than a factor 3 than what you find in Korean town in NYC. Definitely worth a go if you are...
Read moreI was looking up soup on google maps and found this. Got to the location and matched the letters up to find it- it’s on the 2nd floor of a building. We got in and the omma just said to us “chicken soup.”
I couldn’t read the menu but it only had a few things written on the wall so I assume that’s all they serve... language barrier. We ordered two of them and it came with a bunch of side dishes including this gizzard sort of meat dish which was delicious. It was a whole chicken in the soup with a shot of ginseng on the side- some strong stuff. The chicken is very tender and stuffed with rice.
It came out to 26000won for...
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