Mandu Guk

We went back to the mandu guk restaurant today for lunch. I still have no idea what the place is called, but it's always crowded with Koreans and the food is really good.

Today, we got a bunch of different side dishes. Clockwise, from upper left: julienned potatoes, green beans, ubiquitous kim chi, and my personal favorite, jap chae. The jap chae are potatoe noodles, and they have some type of mushroom and green onions usually, along with very thinly sliced carrots.


My coca-cola bottle, glass, from 2002 according to the copyright date on the side.


Mandu guk: dumpling soup. These are king dumplings, i.e., large.


The inside of a dumpling. I pull my dumplings out of the broth one at a time, put it in a small bowl, and break it into bite size pieces. The filling is a blend of pork, vegetable (possibly zucchini), and green onion, with some spices.

This is the front entrance, with trays of dumplings. There's a woman in the window making dumplings, and filling tray after tray with them.