NEW SEOUL RESTAURANT

by Unknown 3/14/2015 08:54:00 pm 0 comments Experience. food Kimchi-Ahoy! Korea Korean Korean food Spot my Korea

                                

                           
   A review by Admin Fay

*DISCLAIMER: I/we weren’t asked to or paid to write reviews on the restaurant mentioned in this post. Once again, this is only a personal experience and opinion. Thank you.*

      Being a k-pop fan for a long time now (almost 6 years) it’s no lie that I have been fascinated by k-culture and of course, their food. Food plays a major role in Culture! ~ so here I was craving Korean food with nowhere to go. I live in Chennai, so I immediately googled up places that serve Korean food here in Chennai and I must say I was surprised! ~ I found three places that serve Korean food nearby! And out of the three – INSEOUL, NEW SEOUL AND YOUNG DOO, we (my friend and I) opted for New Seoul

  New Seoul Restaurants is located in T.T.K Road, Alwarpet, Chennai- , on the  third floor (on top of Llyod’s coffee house) this restaurant opens up at 11:00 A.M so we waited downstairs till they opened up /desperate/. We went in at 11:15 A.M, since we were the only one’s there, we were served instantly! ~ We ordered bibimbap (with beef) and spicy kimchi noodles. Before our orders arrived we were given fried baby octopus, raw octopus with spicy chilli paste and two types of kimchi, the fried octopus tasted really good ( if you are into experimenting with food like me , the I assure you this will not disappoint). The raw one tasted like glue /lol/ the tasty kind of glue, and of course the kimchi was fabulous, we then got our orders served!~ and we got really big servings, huge portions that we couldn’t eat in one sitting . The bibimbap was really filling (with a good amount of beef in it) and the noodles were really spicy, along with bibimbap you get a cucumber based soup ( I think its cucumber based) that tasted so amazing and was so full of flavour, it almost tasted cheesy but I couldn’t drink much cause I was full. While eating we felt a little bit odd ‘cause:

    A.  There was no one else eating except us, the staff were actually watching a period drama on KBS /not kidding/ so we watched it with them xD which I think is cute

    B.   There was a staff member walking around swatting and complaining about house flies with an electric bat, which was weird because there weren’t any flies or maybe our eyes have grown immune to them (?)

Now, on to the pros and cons!!!!

The pros were

    A.  The food portions were huge, filling

    B.   Hygienic

    C.   The food is amazing and completely satisfactory

    D.   Complementary food - the kimchi, octopus, soup and we were also served ice coffee at the end of our meal

    E.   The restaurant is small but can accommodate a large crowd (has wifi, an additional benefit)

    F.   Amazing hospitality, even though the staff were watching the drama when we called them, they came to us in seconds (the place being small and all, it was easy for them to do this)

The cons were

    A.  It was a bit expensive /for a college student 500 INR is a lot for one meal.

    B.   No buffet system. In a sense, what I mean is, with a buffet, you can limit your portions and yet have a variety.

Final word, I had a really good experience, our bill came up to 1100 INR, with the complementary food I guess it was almost reasonable but still. One small advice though, if you are planning to eat at a Korean restaurant make sure you go there on an empty stomach and try tasting each and every portion served before your gorge on one. It would also be better if you order for one portion Serving and then share it amongst yourselves. Coming back to our experience, something that was memorable was the fact that when we were done and we were leaving the restaurant, all the staff lined up from our table till the entrance and kept saying ”감자함이다’’ / thank you/ and me and my friend walked to the entrance bowing back and they came and waved at us as we entered the lift and the door closed.

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