Korean traditional food Bibimbap is the general name of an Korean dish cooked in hot stone bowls with different toppings on rice.
It is a very delicious meal and you should absolutely try one if you are ever in South Korea. I also mentioned it a bit in Seoul guide, but Bibimbap deserves a seperate spot in food section 🙂 It usually contains various meats and vegetables on rice with eggs. You are supposed to mix them while eating but I prefer eating a bit separately and mixing later. Of course be careful of the hot stoneware.
Korean traditional food Bibimbap has many flavors
In fact I will suggest just the place in Seoul, it is the Korean Restaurant in Lotte Department Store’s food court. Yes I am aware it sounds like a lame suggestion to eat in a shopping mall food court but this is not your usual shopping mall food court.
In Seoul shopping is really part of life and some shopping malls are popular then others, Lotte’s flag store is one of the popular destinations which hosts really expensive brands. Its food court is big and you will see that you can find all of Korean food in one place. At the end there are two separate restaurants; one Japanese and one Korean.
But don’t be intimidated with Lotte’s expensive stores, food court is budget friendly and the Korean restaurant here in fact offers a really good Bibimbap with a very reasonable price for Seoul. And if you have short time in Seoul and don’t know what to do for your first meal there, it is a very good option.
They bring your bibimbap with many side dishes here (you usually get kimchi and maybe one other thing or nothing) so with side dishes like tofu, kimchi, some vegetables I don’t know, soy soup it really is a bargain. It was 9500 won in May 2015. By the way kimchi is a kind of marinated cabbage pickles which Koreans love to eat. Its taste change from one place to another and it may come as a very strong taste at first but you will get used to and appreciate it in time 🙂
