Korean Raw Beef

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It’s not often that my friends say that we have to go to raw beef alley over by Jongno 5-ga. I mean even my most hardcore guests that come on my food tours will chow down on some live octopus but will stay away from raw beef. Korean raw beef is a delicacy. It’s not aged so it has a very clean taste to it. They place pieces of the beef over matchsticks of Asian pear and topped with some sesame seeds and a raw egg yolk. The yolk adds a creaminess to the whole dish and it makes it taste so good that I think that someone should come up with a yukhwae bahnmi (I think this would be awesome!). It’s good plain but you can give it a dip in the sesame oil and salt. This adds a bit of savoriness to the dish.

Lookie who is in the picture: Chef Ciaran Hickey of the W-Hotel

Yukhwae Jamae Jip

There isn’t much else at there restaurant other than the raw beef dish. If you would like a mix of liver and cow stomach, they have that as well, but…I find the liver to be a bit too metallic for my tastebuds and the the stomach has a rubbery…ummm…carpety…texture.
You can find Yukhwae Alley in Kwangjang Market over by Jongno 5-ga station exit 8.

Dan

The raw beef with egg

Raw Beef and Pear and Egg

Roasted Sesame Oil with Salt for dipping

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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.