Esop Namakjeom

• 소고기 타다끼3 ate it
  sogogi tataki₩28,000

  Beef seared on the outside only and sliced thin. One writer identifies the sauce as perilla-seed based with a mustardy finish; two say **the fried garlic flakes make it.** Perilla leaf, pickled onion, rakkyo and ginger come alongside

  **₩28,000** in one post, May 2025 — the dearest thing on this list. One writer looked around and found other tables eating it too; another calls it her favourite thing to drink with. Two of the three who ordered it declare a partial subsidy

• 이솝 연어사시미3 ate it
  yeoneo sashimi₩18,000

  **Sized small or large; the price recorded is for the small.** Onion salad, rakkyo, ginger and pickled radish come with it. One writer says the salmon is aged on kombu; another notes the sheen of it. **One adds that you can have sushi rice with the sashimi**

  **₩18,000 for the small** in three posts, December 2024 and August 2025 — unmoved across twenty months. One party of two found the small enough; another writer never comes without ordering it

• 칠리새우2 ate it
  chilli saeu₩21,000

  Big prawns fried and tossed in chilli sauce, **on a good bed of cabbage with nuts through it.** One writer thinks it mild enough for people who avoid heat; another finds it properly hot

  **₩21,000** in one post, April 2025. Three others name it a house favourite without ordering it. One calls the quantity good value

• 크림새우2 ate it
  cream saeu

  Fried prawns under a sweet mayonnaise. Two writers dwell on how plump and soft the prawns are; one refuses to choose between this and the fried chicken

  **No price recorded.** It is a separate item from the plain fried prawns

• 나가사끼 짬뽕나베2 ate it
  nagasaki jjamppong nabe₩22,000

  A **white-broth** jjamppong hotpot with bean sprouts and noodles in it, described as mildly hot and clean-tasting — the sort of thing, one writer says, that sobers you up while you are still drinking

  **₩22,000** in one post, December 2024. One party of three found it ample

• 규동2 ate it
  gyudon₩11,000

  Beef over rice, **with an egg to break into it and eat by the spoonful** — sweet-salty and, both writers agree, not heavy

  **₩11,000** in one post, April 2025. Being a rice dish it needs a main ordered alongside. "Not on anyone's list, and it worked," says one

• 닭껍질 교자2 ate it
  dakkkeopjil gyoza₩19,000

  Dumplings **wrapped in chicken skin**, with **four sauces.** One writer, used to being given a mean few elsewhere, found the plate full

  **₩19,000** in one post, July 2025. Being chicken skin it is rich, and one writer kept going back to the red sauce

• 모츠나베1 ate it
  motsu nabe

  A tripe hotpot: a bone broth with soybean paste and chilli through it, with garlic chives, bean sprouts and cabbage — and **the tofu goes in seared.** The tripe, the one writer who ordered it says, had no off smell

  **No price anywhere.** Only one writer ordered it, and she declares a partial subsidy. Another says she always used to order it, which suggests a following — but that day she had the sukiyaki instead

• 김치 돈까스 나베1 ate it
  kimchi donkatsu nabe

  A kimchi hotpot with **three pork cutlets** in it under melting cheese — "generous to the point of violence", in the one writer's phrase. You stir it once the cheese goes

  No price recorded. That writer added udon too

• 이솝 돈카츠1 ate it
  esop donkatsu₩18,000

  **Two cutlets with cabbage salad, sauce and rice.** The batter, writes the one who ordered it, is pleasingly thin

  **₩18,000** in one post, January 2025

• 새우튀김1 ate it
  saeu twigim₩19,000

  Crisp batter, springy prawn — a beer dish, says the one writer who ordered it

  **₩19,000** in one post, February 2025

• 차돌 숙주볶음1 ate it
  chadol sukju bokkeum₩19,000

  Brisket stir-fried with bean sprouts — generous with the sprouts and vegetables, says the one writer who had it

  **₩19,000** in one post, December 2024

• 이솝 명란 알감자1 ate it
  myeongnan algamja₩15,000

  Crisp-roasted baby potatoes with **a scoop of salted pollock roe** on top. **The owner came over to explain how to eat it** — a heap of roe onto a potato, then into the sauce. The roe, she writes, was like a soft sorbet

  **₩15,000** in one post, August 2025, which also suggests spooning it over the salmon. **One account only**

• 한우 불초밥1 ate it
  hanu bulchobap

  Seared beef over sushi rice, **eight pieces**, with **so much onion on top that it slides off** — wasabi over that. The one writer who had it orders it every time

  No price recorded. **One account only**

Sides, and what comes with it

• 사리 추가 (우동·생면)3 ate it
  sari chuga

  **The hotpots come without noodles; you add them.** Udon goes in and is left on a low flame to take up the broth. Fresh noodles and extra meat are also listed

  No price recorded. **Two writers only found the line on the menu after finishing** — "order the noodles, I mean it," says one

• 감자고로케1 ate it
  gamja croquette₩6,000

  **Five pieces in two flavours** — plain potato and curried. (The writer's own count of three and three does not add to five.) A sauce comes with it, and **it holds up as it cools**

  **₩6,000**, and **a side, so it needs a main ordered first.** One account only

• 기본 안주 (방울토마토·고추장아찌·보리차)named in 18
  gibon anju

  **Free, and it arrives with the table.** Cherry tomatoes and **small pickled chillies** (one writer looked up what they were called), with **barley tea instead of water** — three mention it. The paper mat underneath carries **the story of the shop's name and its cotton-flower emblem**, and **twelve posts copy it out.** Four say reading it passes the wait nicely

  No charge. One writer admits to finishing the tomatoes herself; another eats them with the shaved-ice dessert's strawberry syrup and decides they taste like the sweetened kind

• 서비스 감자튀김 (저녁 8시 전 방문)named in 14
  service gamja twigim

  **Walk in before eight in the evening and chips arrive unasked.** Fourteen writers got them; nobody paid. **The sauce is what they talk about** — sweet and salty, better than ketchup, a fast-food-style seasoned chip under mayonnaise — and four say the sauce is the whole point. Some call them cheese chips, one cajun, so **it seems to vary**

  No charge. **Eleven posts give the same eight o'clock line** (one hedges between seven and eight). Several urge you to come before it; one writer insists they are too good to be given away

Sweet things

• 이솝화채1 ate it
  esop hwachae

  **Shaved ice, strawberry syrup, jelly — and nothing else.** The one writer who ordered it admits it sounds unpromising and then could not stop eating it, calling it the shop's hidden thing

  No price recorded. **One account only**

To drink

• 소주·맥주10 ate it
  soju maekju₩5,500

  Three name the draught Asahi; two note a Terra promotion running. One writer photographs the soju glasses because they are pink. **Soju cut with roasted-grain powder** is on the menu — the powder arrives in its own kettle so you mix it to taste

  **₩5,500 each for soju and beer** in two posts; **₩7,000 for the draught Asahi** in one. "Two dishes and seven bottles," reports one table

• 하이볼7 ate it
  highball₩6,500 · ₩7,000

  **The range is part of why people write about this place:** peach, Earl Grey, Suntory, melon, apricot, blue lemon all appear. One calls the peach one the house best; two name Earl Grey their favourite. "So many unusual ones," writes a designated driver, "and I had to drive"

  **₩7,000 for the peach** in two posts, **₩6,500 for the Earl Grey** in one, all spring and summer 2025. One writer calls the pricing ordinary enough to drink alone or to work through. Another watched the next table order a bottle of Suntory and mix it with tonic themselves

• 블루레몬 에이드2 ate it
  blue lemon ade₩5,000

  **What the drivers ordered.** Both writers chose it for the same reason and both would have it again; one found it went well against the hot broth

  **₩5,000** in two posts, June and July 2025