Friday, January 14, 2011

Lunch at Korean restaurant - "Gomsotum"

Got a free lunch at a restaurant called Gomsotum^^
Sounds funny, right? This event called "Foreign Residents' Experience Event" was organized by Small and Medium Business Corporation of Korea. Foreigners could apply for any product provided by this organization, and then some of the product were distributed among us, "ненасытных иностранцев". We get it for free, but have to write a short review of  it - that's what I'm doing now. Very good marketing decision - make happy one client with free a product once and he'll become an alive advertisement of your company!

So, let's return to that restaurant) It's called Gomsotum (곰소뜸, don't know the meaning) and situated at Shinchon area.  Also this area is very overcrowded, especially by students, this restaurant is very calm, quite spacious place - at least during a lunch time.

You won't miss your favorite drama, cos you can watch TV there 
This restaurant specializes in traditional Korean soups and different kinds of bibimpab (비빔밥, rice mixed with meet and vegetables) as well as some other traditional popular dishes. But the most important feature making this restaurant distinguishing is that they use only han-u as meet ingridient. Han-u is meet of cows being breeded in Korea, it's a kind of marmorate meet and of course differes from ordinary beef.
But prices of dishes are very reasonable there - from 5000 to 10000 won.
I could choose only one dish from a menu - so it took a long time to make a right choice. I chose "white soup with beef"(sorry, but I forgot its name in Korean) and didn't regret! Very refreshing, nutritious soup with noodles and beef. Good! I appreciated it very much. Only one minus - not enough meet inside. But on the other hand, I wouldn't find a soup with han-u anywhere just for 7 000 won.
it was still boiling when I got it

I'll visit it again and recommend my friends too.  
Map to visit:


p.s. special thanks to staff of Gomsotum - very careful and fast without excessive attention, even I was a special guest) 

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