Weekend #13 : Abiko Curry, Hongdae

Okay, so this is a really late post. Like, 2 weeks late post, but I'm gonna post it anyway because we were impressed with this restaurant.

I never thought I would find a nice curry house here in Seoul. Don't get me wrong, but Japanese food seemed a bit rare here, the restaurants are dominated with Korean specialities.

Curry is one of my and Mr. M favorite foods in common. And it's not a long list, we are in different paths when it comes to food most of the time.

When we caught this restaurant in the corner of Hongdae mall, we instantly agreed to have our lunch there. I gotta tell you, I had some pretty good feeling about the restaurant. But it doesn't matter, since most of the time I was completely wrong.

First impression, very lovely interiors. It was warm and saying outloud "we're Japanese!". Look at some of the evidences.

Manga figures

More Manga figures

Second, they have an English speaking waiter! Yaayy.. I could ask whatever I didn't understand on the menu, what they were contain of, how spicy was "spicy", etc.

Four steps in ordering :
1. Pick your carb. There were plain white rice, hayashi rice (hashed beef and rice), and udon.
2. Pick your protein. There were chicken, beef, pork, shrimp, etc.
3. Select the level of spiciness. Mr. M decided to go with "Spicy" and I tried the "Extra Spicy"
4. Add additional deep fried for topping, such as fish cutlet, beef, chicken, etc.

So, I ordered beef curry over white rice with addition of fried chicken and Mr. M ordered Chicken curry over white rice with chicken katsu and vegetable croquette. Our curries comes with two bowls of miso shiru, scallions, and fried garlic. Andra got rice, fish cutlet, and miso shiru.

Yes we took some time to take pics while waiting for our foods to come

My curry turned out to be too spicy for me even though I didn't feel it at first bites. I ended up having watery eyes while finish it up but I really enjoyed it. It was warm and full of flavor. The fried chicken, we really liked it! It was that crispy-on-the-outside-and-tender-in-the-inside kinda thing. Andra also enjoyed his fish cutlet and miso shiru so much.

For sure we are coming back to Abiko Curry, but next time I would have my curry just in "Spicy" stage.