Hwanggeum Kongbat — Restaurant in Seoul

A restaurant hides within a quiet side gil (lane). It is a two - storey patio in the area accesible just a 10 minute walk from the Aeogae MTR station of Mapo District,Seoul. The restaurant is a tpycial Korean and elegant style patio, tidy, clean and in a warm - light dining hall.

The restaurant is famous and popularly recomended by gourmets and travellers for its vegi culinary.

Don't just inspire by its classic patio outlook, nevertheless, you must go for exploring its fried tofu pancake (served by 4 disc-like cakes), several Tofu hot pots -just order any one of them can do. If you're a spice lover, this restaurant will never make you disapionted! Sit down and relax yourself to enjoy a spice meal, making your body warm by the spice culinary hot pot , particularly after tired visits of places somewhere in the chilly winter season.

This restaurant needs a thought of renovation to be considered in making a ramp pave as the staircases are high enough to challenge the feeble -...

There was a short queue when I arrived. Appreciate the new queuing system where foreigners can get a queue number without a Korean mobile number these days.

Waited less than 15 mins for a seat at around 12nn on a weekday.

The reception staff was very friendly and welcoming. He told me my table number and I followed the rest up to the 2nd floor.

Food was so good - fresh ingredients; real taste of local produce; cooked with time and effort; no artifical taste. Sweetness of beef broth was not from the usual heavy-handed addition of refined sugar.

Thought the salad was rather bland initially, but found it to be a clean and refreshing side with the main.

Enjoyed the meal very much, and left happy, comforted,...

The restaurant deserves to be on the Michelin Guide! Both the Bossam (boiled pork) and toufu hotpot was delicious.

I like it that the kimchi was served with raw oysters too. Difficult to find restaurants serving bossam and kimchi this way.

Bossam - 42,000 won Toufu hotpot - 28,000 won

This is enough for 3-4 people we were 3 people and couldn’t finish the toufu, probably because our Bossam dish had big portions of toufu too.

You need to come and try! They have a lot of other food on the menu, but I think these 2 are go...