Korean Dishes
Korean Fried Chicken
Double-fried chicken with an impossibly thin, shatteringly crispy crust — glazed in sweet and spicy yangnyeom sauce or p...
Mandu
Korean dumplings filled with pork, kimchi or vegetables, steamed, boiled or pan-fried until crisp on the bottom.
Bibimbap
Korea's most iconic rice dish — a bowl of warm rice topped with seasoned vegetables, beef, a fried egg and gochujang, mi...
Galbi
Korean BBQ beef short ribs marinated in soy, Asian pear and garlic — grilled until caramelised and deeply savoury.
Bulgogi
Thinly sliced beef marinated in soy, pear, sesame and garlic — grilled over charcoal and wrapped in lettuce with ssamjan...
Samgyeopsal
Thick grilled pork belly cooked at the table over charcoal, wrapped in perilla leaves with garlic, kimchi and ssamjang.
Kimchi Jjigae
Korea's ultimate comfort food — a deeply flavoured stew of well-fermented kimchi, pork belly and tofu in a rich spicy br...
Kimbap
Seaweed-wrapped rice rolls filled with vegetables, egg, and meat, sliced into rounds.
Sundubu Jjigae
A fiery silken tofu stew with seafood or pork, cracked egg and gochugaru — served bubbling in a stone pot.
Tteokbokki
Seoul's most beloved street food — chewy cylindrical rice cakes in a sweet, spicy and deeply savoury gochujang sauce wit...
Haemul Pajeon
A crispy Korean seafood and spring onion pancake — golden and crunchy outside, chewy inside, served with a soy dipping s...
Japchae
Silky stir-fried glass noodles made from sweet potato starch, tossed with colourful vegetables, beef and sesame oil.
Naengmyeon
Chilled buckwheat noodles in an icy, tangy broth, a beloved Korean summer dish.
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