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Night Dining Tour every Thursday, Friday and Saturday Night (Minimum 4 people per tour)
The Korean Night Dining Tour focuses on the Korean Drinking Culture and Bar food. It is the perfect tour for those arriving to Seoul and experiencing jet lag. The tour starts at 6pm at Kwangjang Market to see the different types of street food available in the market stalls. Then we tour the back alleys of historic Jongno 3-ga to visit a tent restaurant and enjoy Korean bar food with alcohol. Round 3 is pork barbecue (Garmaeggisal) grilled on charcoal grills. The tour finishes with a rice wine (makgeolli) and pajeon tasting. This tour shows the real Korea.
Time: Starts at 6pm and finishes at 10pm (During Summer months tours start at 7pm). Tours run on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday Night
Cost
Number of Guests Cost Per Person
1 240,000 won
2 120,00 won
3 or more 80,000 won
Group Rates for 6 or more available.
Location: Kwangjang Market and Historic Jongno 3-ga.
Contact: Daniel Gray at seouleats at gmail dot com 02-3446-1607
www.ongofood.com
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| The General of Kwangjang Market |
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| Korean Tent Restaurant |
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| Grilled Pork |
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| Plum Wine |
3 comments:
During a visit to Seoul last week, we joined the Korean Night Dining Tour with Dan Gray. It was a highlight of our trip.
Dan really helps you to get an 'immersive' experience that would be hard to find without the benefit of a local like Dan who know the culture, food, and people so well. We felt like we were visiting with an old friend. Dan's passion for Korea and Korean food is evident, it is obvious that he does this because he loves to do it, and to share Korean culture and cuisine with others. The 3 other folks on the tour seemed to enjoy the night as much as we did; we all had a great time together eating, drinking and chatting.
The first stop of the tour was Kwangjang Market, where we sampled a platter of mixed fried veggies and meats along with makgeolli (rice wine) in a tiny stall along with the locals. We next had some amazing fresh handmade tofu and kimchi at a little place off an alley near Insadong, the kind of place you'd probably never find yourself.
Next stop was the highlight for us. Fantastic pork BBQ (best BBQ we had in Korea) grilled on our table under the night sky, rolled in powdered spices, sesame leaves, and lettuce in another place only a local would find. Washed down with beer and soju. Final stop was for rolled omelets and a sweet plum wine in a tent restaurant.
We stayed out past our bedtime, drank and ate a little too much, and loved it all the more. Highly recommended!
We had a great time exploring the back alleys and hanging out with the ajummas and ajoshiis of Jongno-3-ga with Dan last week. He took us to a part of town we would have never ventured too deeply into ourselves, and it was definitely one of the highlights of our visit to Seoul. Thanks for the fun night and I'd recommend this tour to anybody!
I've lived in Korea for over two years, and my Korean co-workers are always telling me over big bowls of pork spine or cow intestine soup that I'm a Korean at heart. I know a lot about the culture and cuisine, but still, when some friends came to town, I sent them Daniel Gray's way and joined in myself. As I expected, I learned a lot from him; this is a wonderful introduction to Seoul for outsiders, but it's also a great "Not For Tourists" style tour. Best of all, I got to enjoy my friends' company while Dan took care of the details; there he was, turning the meat over on the grill until it was cooked perfectly, making the drinks magically appear, guiding us through secret alleyways I didn't know existed, and finding us seats at hole-in-the-wall hot spots packed with Koreans. The next time I have guests in Korea, I will take them on this tour again in a heartbeat!
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