Arirang, Seoul

We arrived already in the evening and Korea is an hour advanced from Manila time. It takes about an hour depending on traffic it could be more, to get from Incheon airport to the city. We checked in the hotel and we were very hungry! Everyone suggested Arirang which was highly recommended by our friend, Grace. The earlier group had eaten there the day before and warned us that it was expensive, but we still went since it was nearby the hotel and we were very hungry

Our table! That thing from the ceiling is the exhaust which is adjustable. Cool!! The only place we have seen that had that feature. You still smell korean though but atleast it is not smoky while you are eating

It was expensive for us! But later on we realized that Korea is expensive really. ( For easier conversion, it is around 1,000 won to 1US$. ) In most of the restaurants we went to for korean BBQ, these were the prices. But of course the quality of the beef is really good though portions are small. But at the end of the trip, Arirang was one of our favorites and we went back again on our last day!

Free soup 🙂 Pumpkin soup

Then they brought out all the condiments for the bbq

This was everyone’s favorite which you cannot also find in other bbq restaurants. It’s an onion condiment that you eat with the korean bbq

Then a guy brings the charcoal to the cooker

Tongue! Yum 🙂 around the tongue is the Chadol bagey or marbled thin sliced beef

The server is the one who cooks, we noticed that in all restaurants, they are the ones who cook, they won’t let you cook! 🙂

I love it that they put pepper on the tongue while cooking

then squeeze fresh lemon

The most expensive dish on the menu, the Charcoal Grilled King size Prime Rib

we ordered also the Chuck Flap tail which she said was the neck I think and it was also really good – it’s the small pieces beside the king size rib

Korean side dishes

Bulgogi which was not on the main menu – we ordered this in our second visit already

James likes eating raw beef

Marbled Thin Sliced beef which we figured was Chadol Bagey! Later on we tried to avoid this as it is mostly fat! But YUMMY Of course!

YUM YUM! Pajeon!! We loved this in Arirang since it was very crispy! Make sure it is crispy because that is how we got it! YUMMY!

Chap Chae

Their dessert is always fruit – we were looking for the usual rich sweets, but they don’t have! We were thinking maybe that is why the Koreans are so slim! 🙂 Very sweet and gigantic pears!! Only a slice though!