3 Hat Changes and Okonomiyaki At Hattori Kitchen

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Jiyung Sohn at Hattori Kitchen in Gyeonidan

Hattori Kitchen is the hip Izakaya with one of the wackiest chef/owners that I have ever met. She can cut an onion like the best of them, but as she does it she’ll break out in intermittent bouts of dance. She’s a cute nymph, that has fun and doesn’t care if other people care or not.

I adore her.

Now just because she is mad, it doesn’t mean she doesn’t know food. Her tuna for her salad wasn’t top notch (I’m not a fan of frozen raw tuna), but her dressing and her vegetables were fresh and a nice mix. We had a couple of beers there and she even treated us to some Okonomiyaki- which was on par.

Not a bad place. It’s a tad expensive, but you go for the company and for Jiyung Sohn- if you can get a seat that is.

Hattori Kitchen, 225-94 Itaewon, Youngsan Gu; 02-792-1975

Dan

Hattori Kitchen in Gyeonidan

Tuna Salad at Hattori Kitchen in Gyeonidan

Hat 1 with Jiyun Sohn at Hattori Kitchen in Gyeonidan

Hat 1 with Jiyun Sohn at Hattori Kitchen in Gyeonidan

Hat 2 with Jiyun Sohn at Hattori Kitchen in Gyeonidan

Okonamiyaki at Hattori Kitchen in Gyeonidan

About the Author

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.