북촌손만두@홍대-Bukchon Son Mandoo@Hongdae

11/24/2013 Bukchon Son Mandoo , Food , Hongdae , Korea , Seoul 0 Comments

Dont expect to be sitting across your friend because this place is fairly cosy in size and all seats are arrange side by side.

Guide to acting like a regular : In front of you are utensils, and sauces etc.
There are sauces that let you mix your own sauce like pepper, vinegar, soy sauce, chilli powder, chilli sauce, chilli in soy sauce and etc. There is also free flow pickled radish (also known as danmuji) that you can help yourself to.

ele's recipe : I usually pour a spoonful worth of vinegar and soysauce and a 1:1 ratio and add in another similar amount of chili pepper.


So, my friend ordered a "Bukchon Kimchi Noodle" and I ordered plain rice.
The dumplings were to be shared and man, were the portion big.

Here's an artsy shot of close up food.

3500won for 3.

The fried dumpling (twigigim mandoo) are known as their hit seller. Stuffed inside are minced pork and japchae aka glass noodles and vegetables. On the first bite, it taste rather plain, so after dipping into my fan-ta-bu-lous sauce (that you can see at the corner of the pic), i guess i resurrected it enough for me to finish it. Despite it being deep fried, it was not oily and the skin was pretty crispy-ly good. The dumpling is pretty big and it filled me up pretty much.

On a 2-cents worth connoisseur note, this could have taste pretty good with mayonaise...

4500 won for 3

Next up, Shrimp Dumpling. The filling taste pretty much like the fried one with japchae and minced pork. The only difference is that it is steamed with shrimp. The shrimp barely lend any taste to the dumpling though and it pretty much blended in with the meat. There is more gravy/essence in this one though, goes pretty well with the rice.

The kimchi noodles that my friend had, I guess i am just being mean but it taste like just any instant one but with handmade noodles and dumpling thrown in. Nothing much to rave about.

*Overall Verdict*, I would not go here specially for the dumpling but if i am staying near one of this chain, I am hungry and just need a quick bite, this is pretty much okay ~