Korea Dumpling Tastiness

Ian occasionally makes me crazy, but I have to admit his strategy of only eating in busy restaurants worked for us while in Seoul. The Insadong strip is pretty busy and has hundreds of restaurants and craft stores.

We went with an absolutely packed dumpling place for dinner one night. What lured us in was the veggie & seafood pancake items on the menu, but once inside we noticed that all 100 or so diners seemed to have dumpling stew. We went with the herd and it was a fantastic idea.

How's this for an amazing race challenge? Find this restaurant! I'll give you a hint, it's mid strip and off a mini plaza.


For about 25000 Won (give or take $25), we got 2 beers, dumpling stew and quite the assortment of side dishes. We ordered no spice, so it was a meaty broth kind of thing. It comes to the table uncooked with a hotplate and you tend to it and then eat about 10 minutes later once everything boils.


Sides were 3/4 in good stuff (much higher average than most Korean restaurants we encountered). We didn't eat the kimchee, but the glass noodle salad, bean sprout salad and mountain greenery were all very delightful & refills were in order!


In the pot was a whole assorted bunch of mushrooms (side note Korea really does mushrooms better than Canada), a bit of bulgogi type thin sliced beef, 4 huge dumplings stuffed with pork & green onions + other assorted tastiness, greenery, onion and and garlic. Perhaps a bit of rice cake roll too.


Service was ok, although a bit frantic was serious running around like maniacs to try and keep up with all the diners.

Dumplings are made at the front of the store so you know they are fresh! Mmm..