Life is a different Wave moving by Time and ending at Shore: ‘Hot and Warm Gookbab Menu ~’ Warming You under Cold Winter in Seoul

Your body is always eager to ask that you need warm and hot Gookbab whenever it is entering into clod wind season in winter. As you are dumping white rice into warm and hot beef broth and take it with red hot pepper laddish Kimchi and blowing “Hu and Hu” on spoonful rice soup, you soon forget cold outside and naturally feel relax. Wwe believe there is no other menu comparing to this Gookbab Soup in winter which we could take as a convenient and easy meal or Haejanggook- good soup for the day after soup, sooth hangover after over or heavy drink.

1. Gangnam Ddaro Gookbab – Kongnamul (Bean Sprout) Haejanggook (The Day After Soup)
This restaurant has been very well-known or popular to heavy drinker at Gangnam District in Seoul which you could enjoy either for one meal or Haejanggook. This restaurant was founded in 1980^th which is older than 30 years which is serving only one single menu Kongnamul Haejanggook, soup with Kongnamul and cow blood. When they serve Haejanggook, they will always provide side dish together with Chinese cabbage Kimchi and laddish Kimchi. This Haejanggook soup is made and prepared with well enriched beef and born soup, cow front leg and brisket and add Kongnamul, laddish and big green onion. When they service the Haejanggook, they will put topping the boiled cow blood along with seasonings which will upgrade Kongnamul Gookbab. If anybody does not want cow blood, they could remove the cow blood in case you comment on order or if you want some more cow blood, they will add some more as per your request without no extra charge. They are located near to Gate No. 3 at Shinsa Station in Seoul Metro Line Number 3, tel 02-543-2527.

2. Yeongdong Seolrongtang – Beef Soup
Seolrongtang are many style depend on area by area in Korea. This restaurant is Seoul style Seolrongtang As a primary process, they broth with beef born and continuously broth with born broth after removing born. When they serve, they will add rice and seasonings so that you could feel plain and clean, no fat feel. They will serve warm rice in separate. You could now ready for enjoying Seolrongtang. Please dump the rice into Seolrongtang soup and add one or two spoonful sliced green onion which is normally on your table and help yourself along with Chinese Cabbage Kimchi and laddish Kimchi. It is normal style you pour laddish Kimchi liquid into Seolrongtang soup which will give you some sour and hot taste. They are serving laddish Kimchi liquid at pitcher in separate in order to meet this special taste or hobby. Customers are coming to this restaurant for the day after soup early in the morning. While most office salarymen are coming for lunch meal, they used to bear in mind waiting for que in order, 10 ~ 20 minutes. There is no off day all the year around. They are located near to Gate No. 3 at Shinsa Station in Seoul Metro Line Number 3, tel 02-543-4716.

3. Daesungjib Restaurant– Doganitang (Cow Knee Born Soup)
Doganitang is a broth soup cooking with cow knee born and tendon at ankle which is consisting with sticky liquid and less fat and containing high quality protein and minerals like calcium, prosperous, Sulphur and etc. Therefore old people used to take this Doganitang as an energy boosting menu or recovery of weak health. They were founded at middle of in 1950^th as a Daeseongok Saloon. It is a brief recipe to broth cow knee born for sufficient times and add laddish, garlic, green onion to the broth after removing knee born and broth again. Please remove fat as soon as completed these broth process. It is a particular and unique taste of these broth you could feel pure and clean and pain. They are located near to Dongnipmun Station in Seoul Metro Line Number 3, tel 02-735-4259.

4. Banryeongsan Restaurant – Hamheung Galbigook (Galigookbab)

This is an old traditional food restaurant founded and running by one of Banryeongsan village lady in North Korea escaping the North Korea at Korean War and settling in South Korea and opened her restaurant under her hometown name as Banryeongsan. She presently transferred this restaurant to her son. Food style at the restaurant is Hamkyeongdo Province style in North Korea like Hamheung Naengmyeon (cold noodle), ripened flatfish, Galigookbab, Hwangtaejim, Dongtae Sundae and etc. Galigookbab is a typical menu at the restaurant boiling sufficiently with cow rib and brisket and separately boiling cow blood, laddish, green oinion. As they serve, they will put toping with sliced briskets, cow blood piece, boiled laddish piece, green onion piece and bean curd piece. It is milder or softer or cleaner than Seoul Seolrongtang soup. They are located near to Posco Building at Samsung Station in Seoul Metro Line Number 2, tel 02-3446-8966.

5. Parkchansook Sundae Restaurant – Sundaegook (Blood Sausage Soup)

This restaurant is typical homemade style Sundaegook running more than 50 years and transferring to next generation. They are two times daily making and preparing Sundae (Blood Sausage) by their hand so as to serve the freshest Sundae taste to customers and keep it under ambient or to preserving jar. When they receive customer order, they will cut and slice the Sundae and serve together with Sundaegook. There are three typical menu like Yeongyang Sundae (Nutrition Enriched Blood Sausage), Tojong Sundae (Traditional Blood Sausage) and Kimchi Sundae (Kimchi and Blood Sausage). Yeongyang Sundae is additionally adding blood piece, potato noodle, and sticky rice as a Sundae core which give you soft and clean taste in mouth when you chew and/or sometime after swallowing. There is no particular pig flavor or smell because they treated special ingredient or process. When they serve, they will add pig head meat and organs with Sundaegook. They are located near to Hongdae Station in Seoul Metro Line Number 2, tel 02-336-9909.