Eating & Drinking, Seoul

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It is very Tasty and Sinful! Since the US Beef Ban in 2003, koreans have rediscoved the cheap alternative to expensive local beef by buying thin slices of pork belly called samgyeopsal. fatty slices of pork belly meat are served in the same fashion as galbi, with the meat flavored with garlic, salt and sesame oil and cooked on a grill at the diners' table. Prior to consumption, the large slices of meat are cut into smaller pieces with scissors. A common way to consume the meat is to place a slice inside a lettuce or other green leaf with some cooked rice and ssamjang, a paste made out of chili paste (gochujang) and soybean paste (doenjang).

It is very popular around korea since it costs only 12,000 won an order!

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Korean Food, Bulgogi is made from thin slices of sirloin or other prime cut of beef (usually imported since local korean beef is very expensive!). The meat is marinated with a mixture of soy sauce, sugar and other ingredients such as scallions and mushrooms, especially white button and shiitake and rice glass noodles are added and is cooked into an lpg stove! it is Deelicious!

it costs 18,000 won an order but it rises to 55,000 won if using local korean beef!

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An Aphrodisiac as Koreans would say! It is made from 4 year old ginseng, stuffed into a 4 month old native chicken (the black ones are twice more expensive!) plus glutinous rice and boiled in a broth of Korean ginseng, dried seeded jujube fruits, garlic, and ginger.

a basic meals costs 12,000 won and if you order black chiclen then it balloons to 24,000 won. Available everywhere!

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Since Korean Strawberries are very sweet and juicy, they make dehydrated whole strawberries enclosed in either whiteor dark chocolate and they sell it by boxes and a small box (12 pieces) costs 6,000 won; a medium box at 9,000 (16 pieces) won and large boxes (24 pieces) at 12,000 won! Available in department stores and duty free shops.

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Popular Beer in South Korea, this is Ice Filtered and has 1/3 less calories than Cass Beer and has 4.2% alcohol content and is again available everywhere and the price is 700 won for 500 ml bottle and 2,500 won for a 1.5 liter bottle.

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Another Popular South Korean beer and again Brewed by the Oriental brewery, it is a Pale Lager that has 4.5% alchohol content and adds rice to the brew. Again this is available everywhere and the price is 800 won for a 700 ml bottle.

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Another Famous South Korean Beer that is brewed by the Hite Brewery. Hite lager is golden in colour and is styled upon traditional European and American lagers; it has 4.5% alcohol Hite is a micro filtered lager that has a stronger kick than Cass. a 700 ml bottle is 800 won and is available everywhere.

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Famous Lager Beer in South Korea. Cass is a 5.0% larger which is one of the 3 most popular beers in Korea. Sold bottled or on tap in Korea its a fairly pale larger reminiscent of many an Asian pale larger. It is produced by oriental brewery and the 500 ml bottle is about 700 won and is available everywhere.

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well if your room has a kitchen and you plan to have a drink, these are perfect bar chow companions that you can buy at 24 hour convenience stores like in 7-11 and then cook it and save about 75% of the costs of drinking at bars and hofs and they are aslo cheap. the crab imitation stick is about 2,000 won, the korean ham is about 1,800 won and the korean chicken burger squares are about 2000 won.

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there are about 35 basic kinds of kimchi in both south and north korea and kimchi is spicier in north korea since they have colder weather. At present there are about 100 different variations of kimchi. If you eat at a korean restaurant here, they will give you at least 4 kind of ban chan (kimchi) as side dish and as many as 13 in large restaurants and the good news, kimchi is given free when you order food at any restaurants, food courts, fast food places around south korea.