Maddux 매덕스 - Pizza in Itaewon 이태원

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Maddux is a by the slice pizza place located in Seoul's Itaewon district.  There are not too many of these New York style pizza by the slice places in Seoul let alone any that are actually good, so Maddux is a nice change of pace.  This place tastes exactly like any pizza shop you'd find in America and has a pretty good selection of pizzas at a reasonable price.

The atmosphere in Maddux looks quite a lot like a pizza parlor in the US actually.  It is very small and just has a few tables and some bar stools.  In the back of the shop you pick out which slices of pizza you want to eat, pay and then they bring it over to your table later.  The slices of pizza are pretty good sized, but I am able to eat two of them when I'm hungry.

Like I said before the pizza in this place essentially tastes like a by the slice pizza place you'd find in America.  The pizza slices are huge and delicious and there are a wide variety of options.  I have been here a number of times and had the pepperoni, margarita and spinach and artichoke among others.  All of which were fantastic and tasted like home.  I recommend checking this place out if you're missing American style pizza.

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Margarita

Pepperoni

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Old Address System: 서울특별시 용산구 이태원동 129-9 2층

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Himeji 히메지 - Japanese Curry in Hongdae's Yeonnamdong 홍대 연남동

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Himeji is a tiny little Japanese curry place that is located in Hongdae's new and trendy Yeonnamdong.  The interior of this place looks as though it is the inside of somebody's house and it is all wooden.  There are only a few tables and it's a little cramped.  This place is also quite popular so you might have to wait a bit to get a table here.  Most of the seating is on a raised and floor heated area where you sit on the floor and enjoy your curry.

This is an authentic Japanese curry restaurant.  The curry is a little bit spicy, but is extremely tasty and tastes exactly like the kind of thing that you would find in Japan.  The noodles and rice are also extremely well made and the whole thing is really good.  One thing that is not so great about this place is that the portions are also Japanese size which means that they are not enough to fill up a man of my stature.  However, this is made up for by the low cost of the meal.  Most of the meals in this place are around 5,000 won which is a great price for an excellent foreign restaurant.

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Old Address System: 서울특별시 마포구 연남동 227-15

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Bbongip Sarang 뽕잎사랑 - Shabushabu in Sinchon 신촌

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Bbongip Sarang is a Shabushabu place that is located in Seoul's Sinchon district and is named after the leaf of a mulberry tree.  In this restaurant you can actually get all the tea made from mulberry leaves that you want for free which is kind of a cool addition to already really good restaurant.

This place is located in the basement on the main drag of Sinchon and the atmosphere is a family restaurant type of vibe.  This is a great place for groups, friends, dates or basically all occasions.

For those of you who do not know what shabushabu is, it is a huge pot of boiling broth that comes int he middle of the table and then you are given raw meat, vegetables and some other things to boil in the water.  It is like having a huge mix of boiled everything soup for dinner.  I have eaten at this place as well as several of the other Shabushabu places in the area, and I find this one to out class all the rest.  The broth is excellent and there are generous portions of meat, vegetables as well as rice cakes, dumplings and a few other things.  Upon finishing your meat and veggies, you can then make some noodles which come with the meal and after that you finish off with a rice porridge made from the remaining broth.

This place give you the full deal and the food is excellent.  This is why it is definitely one of my recommended restaurants in Sinchon and I frequent this place myself.

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My Bowl of Soup

Boiling Soup

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Old Address System: 서울특별시 서대문구 창천동 31-20 지하 1층

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Jokbotong 족보통 - Hongdae 홍대

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Jokbotong is a jokbal and bossam place that I just stumbled across as I was looking for somewhere to eat.  I went here for lunch and as such had an item that was on their lunch menu and cannot be purchased in the evening.  It was the bossam jungshik which was very delicious indeed.

Probably the most impressive part about the entire meal was the quality of the meat.  I have never had bossam that tasted the way that it came out in this place in my life.  This place definitely had a really unique flavor and it was wonderful.  It felt as though it had perhaps been fried as well as boiled and while during the boil they definitely used a wide array of spices.

About five side dishes came out along side the meat, all of which were fantastic.  The kimchi was really sour which is something that I like a lot and there was another peppery anchovy dish as well.  Along with that came seaweed a leafy green vegetable and bean sprouts which are all pretty typical in Korea.  It came with two typical sauces to dip your meat in as well as the standard bossam kimchi that always come with bossam, lettuce and a dwenjang jjigae.  The jjigae was also really fantastic containing a ton of the bean paste and tofu.  It had a very strong flavor.

This place is really good and I recommend giving it a try for the unique flavor of the bossam alone.

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Old Address System: 서울특별시 마포구 동교동 204-57

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Aloha Jenny 알로하제니 - Hawaiian Cafe in Hongdae 홍대

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Aloha Jenny is a tiny little Hawaiian style cafe with a really cool atmosphere.  This place gets a ton of light due to having huge windows and the interior is decorated with all kinds of Hawaiian style items.  The tables look like something you might find on the beach and have brightly colored flower leis on them.  There are surfboards, flamingos, dolls and other brightly colored items covering the walls.  The counter is covered with sand and there is a pink ukulele.  There are also fern trees in the corners and they play some pretty cool music.  The atmosphere is really cool in this place.

I ordered the mango apple aide and was not disappointed.  It was actually surprisingly good and had a ton of flavor.  I am not exactly sure what all went in to making it so delicious, but there were tiny little pieces of coconut in the bottom which added a nice touch to the aide.  This place is really cool and I recommend giving it a try some time.

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Old Address System: 서울특별시 마포구 동교동 197-34 구성빌딩 1층

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Yeousai 여우사이 - Cool Sinchon Cafe 신촌카페

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Yeousai is a really cool and trendy cafe that is located in Seoul's Sinchon district.  Despite having lived in the area for quite some time, I had never heard about this cafe until relatively recently and boy have I been missing out.  This is a really cool place that anyone in the area should definitely know about and give a try.

The coolest part about this place is the atmosphere and the interior.  There is always really cool music playing and it is a really wide open place with a calming atmosphere.  On top of that, the seating and decorations are really awesome as well.  The place is covered with all kinds of brightly colored things which gives the place and awesome vibe.  Most of the seating are huge tables with couches to sit on or couches made into the wall.  This is a really relaxing and cool place to go with friends or on a date.  Next to the window there is floor seating looking out over the window which seems like a really cool spot to sit.

When I went here I had the Oreo milk shake and it was reasonable.  I wouldn't say that it was all that stellar, but the standard type of thing that you'd get at most any cafe.  The food is not what this place is about.  The atmosphere is what makes it one of the coolest cafes in the area.

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Old Address System: 서울특별시 서대문구 창천동 72-5

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Matjin 맛진 - Korean Food in Sinchon 신촌 한식

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Matjin is basically a small Korean fast food place that is located next to all the bars and restaurants in the middle of Sinchon.  It is a really small restaurant where you can go for some cheap and quick eats with pretty decent food.  They advertise that they have been open since 1991 which may not sound like a long time to a person from another country, but with the turn over of restaurants in this area of Sinchon that is actually quite impressive.

The food is pretty standard when compared to other similar types of restaurants, but there are not too many of these types of places left in the area.  I ordered the dolsot bibimbap which came with lots of fresh veggies, white rice and a good amount of gochujang (pepper paste).  It also came in a real dolsot, not those metal dishes that many places are using these days.  The sides that I were given were also pretty good.  I got a few different types of raddish, fish cakes, seaweed, egg and soup.

This place is cheap, quick and good and it is worth giving a try.

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Dolsot Bibimbap

After Mixing it up

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Old Address System: 서울특별시 서대문구 창천동 52-149

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Bokseonggak 복성각 - Chinese Food in Sinchon 신촌 중국집

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Bokseonggak is a Chinese restaurant that serves real Chinese food as well as the standard Korean version of Chinese food that you would find at any of the "Chinese" places in Korea.  The real Chinese food is at a much higher price than the Korean style "Chinese" food and that is not what we ordered.  Here you will find a review of the jjajangmyeon (black bean noodle), fried rice and tangsuyuk (fried pork in sweet and sour sauce).

The atmosphere in this place seems like a super fancy family style Chinese restaurant you might find in the West.  The tables are huge and spacious and it is a great place for groups.  There is even a traditional Chinese looking structure that looks like it is a built for a king with a table in it that you can dine in.  This is the ideal place for work events or large groups because there is tons of space and a classy atmosphere.

The food was also very good.  The jjajangmyeon had a ton of veggies and seafood in it as did the fried rice.  The tangsuyuk was also delicious and came with a nice blend of sauce to fried pork.  Some places put way too much sauce so that the breading becomes soggy after a while, but this place made it right.

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Jjajangmyeon

Tangsuyuk

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* Bokseonggak is in a tiny alley way and is it a bit hard to find, but it is visible from the main road that connects Yeonsei university and Sinchon Station.  Look down the alleys.

Old Address System: 서울특별시 서대문구 창천동 31-8

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Pig Farm 피그팜 - Samgyupsal in Sinchon 신촌 삼겹살

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Pig Farm is a huge meat place that is located in Seoul's vibrant Sinchon district.  This place is usually packed and noisy and kind of has the atmosphere of a bar or place you might go out drinking with friends.  It is a bit dark inside and because of the quality and price it is always full.  If you come in the evening especially expect to have to wait to get a table at this restaurant.  That said, the food is great and it is a fun place to go with a group of friends.

The food in this place is cheap and excellent.  It is probably one of the cheapest samgyupsal restaurants in the entire area.  Starting at 17,000 won you can get a whopping 600 grams of meat which is absolutely enough for two.  Rice and Jjigae come at 1,000 won a piece on top of that which means two people can stuff themselves here for around 20,000 won.  Quite a reasonable price.

The meat is precooked before you receive it, but not all the way through so you need to cook it a bit more before you can eat it.  Due to the precooking it is quite quick to cook it though and the slices of samgyupsal here are thick which is just the way I like them.  It comes with scrambled eggs along with corn and cheese being cooked on the sides of the grill.  And for sides we got onions, garlic, kimchi, green onion, lettuce, and a variety of other things along with a few sauces.  The sauces were bean powder, ssamjang (a bean paste) and gochujang (a pepper paste).

The value at this place relative to the restaurants in the surrounding area is fantastic.  The food is excellent and cheap and the atmosphere is really cool as well.  I recommend this place highly for a Friday night before going out the party with your friends.

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Empty Grill

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Old Address System: 서울특별시 서대문구 창천동 53-79 1층

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Pomodoro Chicago Pizza and Pub 뽀모도로시카고피자 - Idae 이대

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Chicago Pizza and Pub is a really cool Chicago style deep dish pizza restaurant that is located in Idae right near the university.  The pizza at this place is quite good and if you order the set it comes out to a really affordable price.  If you live in the area you should definitely give this place a try.

The atmosphere in Chicago Pizza and Pub is a quiet restaurant type of place and it is a great place to go on a date with your significant other or with friends.  The atmosphere is nice, but doesn't really stand out.  The food is pretty good though and especially the set menus make things a lot cheaper with the same quality of food.  The set menus generally involve a choice of pizza along with an option for a choice of either salad or pasta.  Together these cost around 20,000 depending upon what you order a little more or a little less and feed about two people.

I have ordered a few different pizzas and pastas at this place and have never been disappointed.  This last time that I went we ordered the mushroom and olive pizza which was very cheesy and quite tasty along with the ricotta cheese salad.  The salad had a pretty thick balsamic vinegar dressing with a generous amount of ricotta cheese.  The dressing was so good I was mopping it up with my crust after finishing the pizza and there were some huge tomato slices on the pizza as well.

This is a cool spot to know about for people who live in the area.

Ricotta Cheese Salad

Mushroom and Olive Pizza

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Old Address System: 서울특별시 서대문구 대현동 60-7

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Hand in Hand Burger 핸인핸버거 - Hongdae 홍대

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Hand in Hand Burger is a burger place that I have been to several times without disappointment.  It is located in Hongdae on the same road as the university going in the direction of Sinchon.  This place makes a damn fine burger and I recommend giving them a try.

The atmosphere in this place is nothing special.  It kind of feels like a fast food joint and there is not too much in terms of seating.  Most of the restaurant is the kitchen which you can see in on and watch them cook from the seating.  The seating is bar stools against a bar table and there is a sink in the back where you can wash your hands after eating which is absolutely necessary after eating one of these burgers.

The burgers contain huge pieces of meat and that is about it.  Just about everything you can imagine is an add on including vegetables but also cheese, egg, bacon, etc.  One thing I must warn you about is although this burger is excellent, they decided to ruin it with some weird sauce that they put on it.  I highly recommend asking them not to put this nasty sauce on there and instead asking them to put the normal mayonnaise and ketchup that you find on normal burgers.  It is also essential to order the vegetables and in my opinion the cheese as well, but then customize it as you like.

Another thing that they do really well at this place in the onion rings.  They are heavily breaded and fried.  The breading contains a mix of spices that blend together fantastically and it comes with a side of a unique mayonnaise like sauce that compliments the onion rings as well.  Get the burger set with veggies, cheese, onion rings and change out the sauces.

Onion Rings

Burger

Set with Onion Rings

Messy Burger

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Old Address System: 서울특별시 마포구 창전동 6-42

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Gubok 구복 - Shanghai Style Chinese Food in Sinchon 신촌

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Gubok is a restaurant that serves a variety of different types of Shanghai style Chinese food and is located in close to Sinchon Station.  Although there are a few different items on the menu, their specialty is xialongbao which are the northern Chinese style dumplings especially associated with Shanghai.  I went here with a friend and we ordered the xiaolongbao along with one of the white soups.

The xiaolongbao come seven to an order and are quite large home made dumplings.  They are not massive dumplings that are completely filled with meat like the Korean style ones, but have better ratio of the breading to meat.  They are also a bit more liquid than the Korean style ones which can be a bit dry.  The soup tasted like the type of chicken soup your Mom might make you when you are sick if you are from a Western country.  It was greasy, noodley and abosolutely delicious.

The atmosphere in the place is quite like a Korean bunshik place with benches along the walls, wooden tables on chairs on the other side of the benches.  It is probably not the type of place you would be spending a lot of time, but more of an eat and go type of atmosphere.  The portions at this restaurant are not very large at all which raises the price quite a bit.  The food is great, but expensive and it is probably better to use as a snack place rather than for a full meal.

Xiaolongbao

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Old Address System: 서울특별시 서대문구 창천동 13-49

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