Thursday, 5 August 2010

Korean restaurants around the globe


Hansik, the Korean word for Korean cuisine, is tantalizing global taste buds. Here we'd like to introduce some famous Korean restaurants around the world.

-Hong Kong


Hanareum located in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, prepares traditional and yet modern Korean dishes. As most restaurants in Hong Kong have menus with hundreds of choices, Hanareum offers about one hundred Korean dishes including Korean hot pot (jeongol), other kinds of soups and traditional tea. Haemul topokki, stir-fried rice cakes with seafood and haemul jeongol, seafood hot pot, are the top sellers.
Hanareum 852-2877-7797

-Japan


Soseonjae in Tokyo, Japan. This is a franchise outlet of the original Soseonjae in Samcheong-dong in Seoul. They use ten-year-old fermented soy bean paste and other home-made soy sauce. In 2008, it was nominated as one of the hottest restaurants in Tokyo by a famous Japanese restaurant guide book.
Soseonjae 03-5545-6691 sosonjae.jp


-France



Woojeong in Paris. Here you can try Korean cuisine with a French touch. Customized for French people, Woojeong offers dishes that don’t necessarily require chopsticks - for example gujeolpan, a platter of nine delicacies that don’t need to be wrapped. Once every two months, it holds a class on matching wine with Korean food.
Woojeong 01-45-20-72-82


-England


Myungga in London. To satisfy Londoners’ picky taste buds, Myungga offers a very detailed menu with many different kinds of kimchi and vegetable side dishes. The restaurant makes its own red hot pepper powder and uses fresh organic vegetables brought from Germany. Pork bulgogi, napa wraps with pork (bossam) are its bestsellers.
Myungga 44-020-7734-8220 myungga.co.uk


-U.S.


Located in Midtown, New York, Bann provides traditional Korean food prepared by an American chef. Compared to the restaurants in Korea, Bann uses different amounts of soy sauce, salt and other seasonings, but sundubu-jjigae, spicy soft tofu stew, and yukgaejang, spicy beef soup, are popular like in Korea. On the wall, it displays chopsticks used by famous customers who have visited the restaurant.
Baan 212-582-4446 bannrestaurant.com
source: Korea.net

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