Re: [97attendees] Vegetarian food near venue?

[Ted Lemon <[e-mail]>]

If you go back, take a picture!  :)

On Nov 12, 2016 11:35 PM, "Mukund Sivaraman" <[e-mail]> wrote:

> I am staying at the Kobos Hotel (across the park from the Conrad) and
> there's a Korean restaurant next door whose owner prepared a Korean dish
> for me without any meat or fish (including any meat or fish soup). He took
> great pains to explain its contents to me to assure me that there was no
> chance of meat in it. It was a soupy dish with compressed rice, onions and
> sesame oil and I couldn't taste any meat in it.
>
> I "lived" yesterday on Dunkin Donuts, so yes this counted as great food
> today. :) The restaurant is here (on the corner): http://goo.gl/m63dSj
>
> I'm afraid I can't give you its name as it was in Korean.
>
> Mukund
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ted Lemon" <[e-mail]>
> > To: "joel jaeggli" <[e-mail]>
> > Cc: [e-mail]
> > Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2016 10:54:44 PM
> > Subject: Re: [97attendees] Vegetarian food near venue?
>
> > Thanks, everyone, for these suggestions.   I just got here, and wound
> > up just hunting through the mall.   Pretty discouraging, but there is
> > a chinese restaurant where I was able to get Ma-po tofu vegetarian
> > style.   It was very good.   Maybe not what you want to eat every day,
> > but food is food.
> >
> > The place is called Rak'n Wok.   You have to go down two levels, and
> > then it's close to the far end of the food court, on the right.
> >
> > Warning: the ma-po tofu is not mildly spicy.   It's not insanely spicy
> > either, but it's definitely got a kick to it.
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 1:06 AM, joel jaeggli <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >> Somewhat not updated recently (owner runs cook and book now)
> >>
> >> http://aliensdayout.com/
> >>
> >> http://www.timeout.com/seoul/restaurants/the-best-vegan-
> restaurants-in-seoul-are-here
> >>
> >> http://www.plantcafeseoul.com/
> >>
> >> https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&
> espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=vegan%20seoul
> >>
> >> our hotel is bit out side the habitable zone so many of them are either
> >> across the river or in gangnam.
> >>
> >> sanchon which is featured on that list is an example of the temple style
> >>
> >> https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g294197-
> d802826-r16613782-Sanchon-Seoul.html
> >>
> >> I believe it was there last time, it's been a while.
> >>
> >> happy cow had a rather long list that no doubt needs filtering based on
> >> the sanity of their users
> >>
> >> https://www.happycow.net/asia/south_korea/seoul/
> >>
> >> On 11/6/16 9:01 PM, Somers-Harris, David | David | OPS wrote:
> >>> Just be aware that many sauces have fish in them.
> >>>
> >>>       > When in non-vegetarien restaurants (almost every restaurant in
> Korea),
> >>>        > you have to be rather careful as there is very little concept
> of vegetarianism
> >>>        > and many of the soups and sauces will contain fish or very
> small bits of meat,
> >>>        > even if the restaurant staff claim that they don’t. It isn’t
> that they are
> >>>        > trying to
> >>>        > trick you; they simply don’t understand the concept of being
> a vegetarian.
> >>>
> >>> http://www.thevegetariantraveller.com/a-guide-to-being-vegetarian-in-
> south-korea/
> >>>
> >>> David
> >>>
> >>> On 2016/11/07 12:22, "97attendees on behalf of Qin Wu"
> >>> <[e-mail] on behalf of [e-mail]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>     Yes, I see template food became favored by Korean, Sanchon or Baru
> seems a good
> >>>     choice. But it looks cross river to protest area is needed,:-)
> >>>     http://travel.cnn.com/seoul/eat/7-restaurant-options-
> seoul-herbivore-868953/
> >>>
> >>>     -Qin
> >>>     -----邮件原件-----
> >>>     发件人: 97attendees [mailto:[e-mail]] 代表 Dorian
> Kim
> >>>     发送时间: 2016年11月7日 11:07
> >>>     收件人: Ted Lemon
> >>>     抄送: [e-mail]
> >>>     主题: Re: [97attendees] Vegetarian food near venue?
> >>>
> >>>     I don’t have any first hand experience with them since I’m very
> much prefer to
> >>>     be an omnivore, but last few years Buddhist temple cuisine has
> become popular
> >>>     in Korea and you should be able to find any number of such places
> in Seoul.
> >>>
> >>>     The key to searching for them is “temple food” or “buddhist temple
> cuisine”
> >>>     and any of the search engines should be able to direct you to them.
> >>>
> >>>     -dorian
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>     > On Nov 6, 2016, at 9:11 PM, Ted Lemon <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >>>     >
> >>>     > I really love Korean food, and would love to be able to have
> some in
> >>>     > Seoul, but the last two times I went to Seoul I nearly starved
> because
> >>>     > it was so hard to find vegetarian food--everything has meat in
> it.
> >>>     >
> >>>     > I wonder if any of the Koreans who I've noticed are on the
> attendees
> >>>     > mailing list have any advice.   I know vegetarianism is not a big
> >>>     > thing in Korea, but I also know that in principle it's possible
> to
> >>>     > make very good vegetarian food by making relatively small
> changes to
> >>>     > Korean recipes.   Any advice would be much appreciated.
> >>>     >
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