Seoul Food

The most amazing beef bulgogi found just near the border of the DMZ. That's right! It's so good you need to buy a DMZ tour ticket to have it. The restaurant is found in Freedom Village, a small no man's land just kilometers before the DMZ checkpoint.

The best 3,500 won you'll ever spend on food in Korea. Albap is basically bibimbap but instead of the usual suspects, the rice is topped with cubes of ham, shredded lettuce, seaweed, sunny side up and spicy fish roe.

Reprieve from fermented food, my stomach went crazy after 3 weeks of non-stop-kimchi. A friend of mine found this pasta place in Anam that serves incredibly delicious, untainted pasta - although you'll smell like oil and funk after leaving the cramp space.

If there were one experience I would recommend to visitors, it would be the Tosirak cafe in Tongin Market. Tosirak means lunchbox in Korean and what people do at this cafe is to purchase a set of gold coins (I kid you not) which can be exchanged for food/side dishes at selected stalls below the cafe. The stalls participating in this cafe's concept have signs like the one in the picture. It's an incredibly refreshing adventure that everyone should try!

Hole-in-the-wall ramen shop on the streets of Edae. Pretty authentic dish with even more authentic izakaya ambience

Yeolbong braised chicken restaurant, opened by Se7en - a popular hip hop artist under the YG label. It's got MSG in it but still rather tasty nonetheless

The holy grail of all cereals. Oreo-Os used to line the shelves of supermarkets here until the middle '00s when it suddenly took off and left us reeling for more. Today, the only country in the world that still carries this line of Post cereal is South Korea.

On-the-spot liquid nitrogen ice cream

On-the-spot liquid nitrogen ice cream

Whole chicken stuffed with glutinous rice, ginkgo nuts, seeds and red dates simmered till fork tender in a rich ginseng broth