it was quite a long day, since we only slept a few hour on the red eye flight arriving this morning on 10.11.2016.

anyhow, we managed to visit 3 palaces + secret gardens english guided tour.

before that (changdeokgung) we walked insadong & had great lunch at insadong geu jib.

after that (gyeongbokgung) we had Tosokchon Samgyetang (토속촌 삼계탕) 土俗村 蔘鷄湯, not that great, but still a good experience to try this well know samgyetang place for me.

so after returning to our apartment, we slept for a few hours & got up about 9pm.

wife knew this lorean bbq place just 2 blocks from our apartment. there are lots of eats aound the apartment in hongdae.

newmaul sikdang 새마을식당  is a chain.

customers mostly korean.

but also some chinese, like we met everywhere in the day actually.

wife ordered her shio jiu 烧酒, 4000won.

the seaweed soup was tasty. though the best seaweed soup we had was at gwangjang market later.

wife said this item was very good, the last time she had it with daughter here.

pork ribeye? 10,000won….not sure, but it did not disappoint. really good in fact!

& this was one of their popular items. 9,000 won. 🙂

the usual banchan side dishes, but these more as sides for the lettuce wrap with the bbq meats.

the bbq neats were excellent.

very tasty. not better than our favourite aburiya here. actyally aburiya is better, but this was less than 1/2 price.

really tasty, whether eaten as meats or combined with the lettuce.

very enjoyable meal! ^^

the pork slab was especially good. the other meat was like so so, but quite nice when comdined with lettuce & the sides.

a really good dinner for 23,000 won, about S$28, very much cheaper than tosokchon & much more shiok! and a lot cheaper than aburiya too. 🙂

after dinner we walked along the streets, and peeped into the 포장마차 pojangmacha 包藏马车 at hongdae.

basically oden, quite similar stuff in japan & hong kong, like what we had in the streets in mongkok, hong kong.

the포장마차 pojangmacha 包藏马车 street stalls are quite similar to the yatai屋台 on nakasu island.

satisfied, we returned to the apartment & slept early enough to be ready for nami island the next day.

c.h.e.f andy

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Newmaul Sikdang 새마을식당  

Address :

331-18, Seogyo-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul

Contact:

▶Homepage : www.newmaul.com (Korean only)

▶Operating Hours :

Open 24/7

wife’s bringing me to all the places she came with daughter last time. ^^

earlier, we had excellent raw beef salad at insadong geu jib

now after 3 palaces + secret gardens, a good time to enjoy some good food.

Tosokchon Samgyetang (토속촌 삼계탕) 土俗村 蔘鷄湯 is just a short distance from gyeongbokgung.

the restaurant quite looks like quite big.we were led to an inner hall.

it was closed to 5pm. there was quite good crowd already

there were only 2 banchan side dishes 반찬.

they were laid on the table so help yourself.

quite ok, if limited & nothing special.

wife decided to order a black chicken ssamgyetang. i think it was 23,000won.

maybe the black chicken was indeed sweeter than the normal white chicken.

i am never intrigued with black chicken, hardly take them in singapore, so not much attractions for me.

wife felt there was less soup in the black chicken pot.

i had the normal samgyetang.

i think it was 16,000 won.

both chicken soup were quite tasty, but not specially tasty.

i am not sure if they were any different from singapore korean restaurants, which i have not taken in any anyway.

they used normal rice not glutinous rice, which was usual in samgyetang recipes.

the chicken itself were not that great. not very overcooked & falling apart but also not very tender & sweet.

really, it was nowhere compared with the glutinous rice stuffed chicken soup HK$188 2-in-1 special we had in hong kong on 11.1.2016.

i recorded then that-

the soup was wonderful! ^^

very intense & tasty, & the chicken & glutinous rice were very good too!

& my wife said even my own samgyetang, albeit that i did not have ginseng, was a lot better than this.

i recorded then –

my chicken soup was very tasty (though maybe still not as intense as the wonderful glutinous stuffed chicken soup we had at tao hueng tsimshatsui) & chicken very tender as my friends noted.

so my soup & my chicken were both better!

basically i used very intense, tasty chicken soup & added a small chicken, so both my soup was tasty & chicken was very tender & not overboiled.

& this Tosokchon Samgyetang (토속촌 삼계탕) 土俗村 蔘鷄湯 was expensive. average of S$25pax for 1 pot of chicken soup each. well i guess it is just as expensive in singapore but other nice food in seoul a lot cheaper la…

so this tosokchon not quit our thing. i would say very average food for relatively expensive prices.

c.h.e.f andy

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Tosokchon Samgyetang (토속촌 삼계탕) 土俗村 蔘鷄湯

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