Food for your Seoul

Seoul, a new restaurant on MG road offers you a space to have a relaxed afternoon lunch with some wholesome Korean, Thai and Continental dishes

The place is cute and struck the right chord, the moment we entered. Seoul is the latest address on the fast changing chic, glass and chrome avatar of Mahatma Gandhi (MG) Road. Located on the first floor of one of these new highrises with glass exteriors, this new eatery, done up in lime green gives a full view of the changing face of urban Bangalore and very soon you can watch the metro zoom past too.

Seoul
Food: good
Service: attentive
Ambience: cozy

Stir fry garlic prawns Pics/Sanjay Md

With sturdy wooden tables and chairs, potted plants, and shelves full of fishy Korean snacks up for sale, it shouldn't take you long to figure out what kind of food Seoul serves.

As we leafed through the menu on a laidback, breezy Saturday afternoon, we realised that this restaurant is only three weeks oldu00a0 and serves mainly Korean cuisine along with some Thai and Continental dishes. The menu has salads, soups, starters, mains and dessert sections.

We decided to kickstart our gastronomical journey by giving our parched throats some relief with a Chocolate Milkshake (Rs 120) and a Sweet Lime Soda (Rs 50) for my dining partner. With a lot of milk and less chocolate, the shake had the right amount of sugar and would appease any kid's palate, but didn't do much for us.

Our next try was the Stir Fry Garlic Prawns (Rs 180). Juicy prawns were served with loads of shredded garlic in a sweet and tangy sauce, making for a perfect appetiser. For our mains, my friend rec ommended Bibimbap (Rs 280), a Korean rice dish, which we followed up with a Thai Beef Green Curry (Rs 220).

While we were waiting for our mains, we nibbled on the extra spicy Kimchi served to us. Kimchi, fermented cabbage tossed in chilli paste, here was a spicy and a sour affair. While we were enjoying the Kimchi, our main course was ready to be served. A popular Korean dish, in simple terms Bibimbap can be called mixed rice.

A bowl full of warm rice with loads of vegetables, shredded chicken topped with a fried egg was wholesome, though my friend found it to be a tad sweet. A Korean lady, who probably had whipped up the Bibimbap in the kitchen for us, kindly mixed up the rice so that we could eat it in the correct Korean way.

Though we had ordered for the Thai Green curry, what was brought to us was the Thai Red version. But we didn't complain, as it was quite agreeable. Chunks of tender beef came soaked up in gravy comprising red curry paste with lemon grass, ginger, garlic, kaffir lime leaves, and coconut milk. In no time we mopped up the rice with the piquant gravy.

After so much spice on our tongue, we would have loved something sweet but nothing on the menu was available. However, we were happy by this time and we did not mind too much. We bid Seoul goodbye with a promise that we would soon be back soon.

At: Seoul, 97/1, MG Road
Call: 74112 43829
Meal for two: Rs 800

Seoul didn't know we were there. The Guide reviews anonymously and pays for meals.