After our whole day
shopping at Myeongdong and Nandaemun, we decided to have our dinner just around
Seoul. That day, we crave for meat. We searched on the net for their best
restaurants that serves meat and we came across to a site which talked about
the famous Palsaik Samgyeopsal of 8 Kind Tastes. We immediately searched the
address and luckily it's just around Seoul. The complete address is: 121-100
Mihwa Building B1F, 18 Baekbeom-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul. We're at Myeongdong that
time and the next thing we searched is how we will get in Mapo-gu. Since we're
just transferring from place to place thru their subway, we searched for the
best and easiest route.
We rode the subway from
Myeongdong station (Line 4) and stop at Ddm-S station (2 station stops only).
From there we transferred to Line 2 and rode to Sinchon station. Overall, there
are 8 stations from Ddm-S to Sinchon. Sinchon station is the nearest station in
Mapo-gu, Seoul.
After exiting at Sinchon
station, we immediately search for the restaurant. We easily found it because
it's just around the main road beside a KIA Motors branch.
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| (KIA
Motors at the bottom left. Palsaik Samgyeopsal is just beside it, on the right) |
Upon entering to the main entrance, you have to go downstairs to reach
their main dining area.
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| (Restaurant
main entrance) |
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| (Waiting area) |
Here is a part of their menu. We decided to order PALSAIK 400g Meal. The
group meal at the bottom in the picture below. As per the waiter, each serving
is good for 2-3 persons. Since we're 6 in the group we ordered 2 servings. So
that's a total of 54,000 won (around 2,500 in Philippine peso). It's a bit
pricey for us but for them - it's just within their budget. At first, we
thought that 1 serving is enough for us and that we can't consume all if
we order 2. But in the end, we just ordered 2 servings because we're really
hungry that time. LOL
Their resto is very
crowded. This just proves that they are very popular in Seoul. Here's the
evidence. :)
Below is a picture of us
waiting for our order. (Forced smiles of hungry tourists LOL)
I'll give you a short overview of Palsaik Samgyeopsal. It is a meal that
consist's of pork belly meat in 8 different colors/flavors such as plain, wine,
pine leaf, curry, red-pepper paste, herb, soybean paste, ginseng. These meats
will be cooked in grill usually positioned at the center of the dining table.
To eat this, you need to wrap the meat in a lettuce or perila (a mint herb)
along with other side dishes like Ssamjang, Kimchi, etc. Ssamjang is a thick
spicy paste in korean while Kimchi is a traditional korean side dish made of
vegetables with variety of seasonings. It can be made of napa cabbage, radish,
callion or cucumber.
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| (8
flavors of pork belly with the lettuces and perillas) |
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| (Side
dishes and mussels soup) |
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| (Yummy!) |
You can watch the preparation video here.
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| (Picture
muna bago lafang :D) |
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(I'm enjoying wrapping the food)
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| (My
friend trying to fit all in her mouth :D) |
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| (Mussel
soup with veggies) |
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| (Aftermath.
hahaha Sorry!) |
Overall review: We
really love the food so much. The pork bellies that are marinated in different
flavors are very delicious. At first we thought that their servings is too much
to us. But at the end, we're laughing because we finished all the meats, side dishes
and leave wrappers except for the Korean Mussel with soup. The Mussel is
unpleasantly chewy, it's kind of leathery when you chew it out. But I like the
taste of it's soup. I also love their Kimchi, it's very tasty and somewhat
spicy. The taste is perfectly matched to the meats and perila/lettuce leaves.
My four friends doesn't like it including it's smell, but for me and my one
other friend - it's really appetizing. :)
We saw this chocolate store
in front of the restaurant. Perfect for desserts. Their goodies are on sale
that time. :)
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| I
can't read their store name though :( |
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