Re: [97attendees] Vegetarian food near venue?

[Mukund Sivaraman <[e-mail]>]

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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