Seoul

Koreans love food. It’s much cheaper compared to Tokyo but good food still has its price. In Seoul for just 1 week, I was only able to eat a fraction of the South Korean food possibilities available – but what I did get to eat was mostly extremely delicious – and sometimes extremely challenging. But let’s start with the delicious stuff 🙂

Ordering can be confusing for foreigners, and choosing blindly is difficult if you don’t eat meat. There is a lot of BBQ for meat, but you can find as well delicious seafood plus countless small dishes of unfamiliar sides and soups.

Make sure you try kimchi (pickled cabbage), which I was told not only has anti-aging powers but saved Koreans from the last bird-flu epidemic. While there are many different kinds of kimchi, the most common version is made with napa cabbage that is preserved and lightly fermented in bright red chili flakes.