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September 8, 2009

Mook Hyang Japanese restaurant Jeonju

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Photographs from a Japanese restaurant opposite my apartment. Excellent service, very nice setting and a lot of food even though it was a touch pricey. 80,000 won for 2 which included a bowl of udon at the end because, the chef said, Korean people kind of expect some rice or noodles to make it a substantial meal.The chef also threw in some free sushi, in fact he gave us o-toro sushi, the most prized part of the tuna, which, if I understood correctly would normally cost almost as much as the meal itself.



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Daniel
Daniel Gray is a Korean adoptee that returned to Korean in 2005 because he wanted to try and find his birth mother and to learn about Korean culture. He started a restaurant review blog in 2007, www.seouleats.com, that became a local and international hit. He and his blog has been featured in the New York Times, Monocle Magazine, The Kimchi Chronicles, Bizarre Foods, Rudy Maxa, Olive Magazine, Euronews and much more. He now is a partner at O’ngo Food Communications (www.ongofood.com), which is a culinary tourism and consulting company that offers Korean cooking classes and restaurant tours to travelers. Their food tours and cooking classes are ranked as one of the top attractions in Seoul according to tripadvisor.




 
 

 

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2 Comments


  1. Michelle

    Is that tuna or salmon sushi? If it is tuna, it looks beautiful.


  2. Rob

    It was Tuna and it was very nice. It was covered in fat and left a few large blobs on the plate after after I have devoured the lot!



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