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Restaurant Name: Hanbang Daega Samgyaetang

Too bad we can't do Hangul text on this...because the name if this place's specialty is written as Samgaetang, Samgyetang and Samgyaetang depending on who is spelling it (but it's always the same in Korean text).

Anyways, this is nice place. Very new, open since Nov 03, and they make the famous Hanbang Samgyaetang (it has additional ingredients that are good for health, as they say). The sidedishes are quite hot (at least I thought so before...so either my taste has changed or they toned them down).

Favorite Dish: Sam means ginsing; gyae means chicken; tang means soup...thus many foreigners call it ginsing chicken soup (but you can call it by its Korean name now!). Basically, it's a small chicken stuffed with rice, ginsing and other roots and nuts brought to a boil and cooked in a heavy bowl. You'll get a small dish to put salt and pepper in (dip the chicken in it as you eat it), another larger bowl for cooling portions (it's literally boiling hot when served) and another (stainless steel) bowl to put the bones and whatnot into as you eat. When you first have this it's tough to eat, but after a while you can get it down to the bare bones.

The full treatment (Hanbang Samgyaetang with a whole chicken) is 10,000 won (USD 8.75), or you can get a half (chicken) portion for 5,500. There are other chi-gae dishes and such as well, but I've never tried them.

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Theme: Local
Comparison: about average
Prices: less than US$10  » Currency Converter
Phone: 783-7892, 782-4794, 018-327-1504
Address: Youido, near West (Seo) Youido Daishin Securities
Directions: In West Youido there is a Daishin Jungkwang (Securities) branch. Down that street is Ga-deun (Garden?) Building. Hanbang Samgyaetang is on the main floor, on the right. Across from the Bismark Hof/Minjoktongil Officetel. (Hope this helps!)