Where are you going for lunch and
dinner? Do you always go to the Food hall or student restaurants in EWHA? Do
you ever get sick and get tired of the usual food? Would you like to try food
from different countries? We discovered four excellent foreign restaurants
which will give you new options. Here is all you need to know about Mexican,
Japanese, Indian, and Chinese restaurants in the EWHA area.
Mexican
restaurant – Taco and Rice
Written by Noh So Jung
Opening time : 11am-9pm
Phone number : 02-3291-5050
Price : 5500 won~8500 won
If you start at EWHA’s main entrance,
this restaurant is located at the next alley right after Baskin Robins. When you go in that alley a little bit, you can see a
small restaurant which has a yellow signboard: ‘Taco and Rice’. Because it is a
small restaurant that only seats about 20 people, if you go here at peak
mealtime, sometimes there are no more seats left. But because there are seats
for people who come alone, it’s good when you have to eat a meal alone.
When you go in the restaurant, and see the
menu, you can see many things like Buritto, Tacos, Quesadilla, and so on. The
most popular choice is Tacos which has meat, rice and many kinds of vegetables
in it, and is popular to most people. But, on the day I went there, I ate the special
Buritto called ‘Bowl’. It was like salad with rice. As I ate many dishes in
this restaurant, all of them have characteristic Mexican food aromas, and are very
delicious.
And there is one tip. When you have your
meal, before eating your delicious Mexican food, I recommend that you to bring
tomato and jalapeno salsa sauce from one corner of restaurant. It is more
delicious if you eat these sauces with other food. Because the restaurant
offers unlimited refills of the sauce, you can eat them whenever you want. But
don’t forget to eat all of them! Please enjoy your delicious Mexican mealtime!
Japanese
restaurant – Papa’s Dining
Written by Lee Won Jung
Opening time : 11am-8pm (Monday to Saturday),
11am-3pm(Sunday)
break time : 3pm-5pm
Phone number : 02-364-0604
Price : 8000 won-10000 won
This restaurant is located in a back
street, so, unlike other restaurants near EWHA, its atmosphere is so quiet and
not crowded. It is a Japanese home-style restaurant, so all meals are clean,
neat and ready for single individual servings. It is a good place for one
person to eat at. But there are also tables for four, so many people can go
there together. And all their staff are kind and make customers comfortable.
But, you may have to wait because the restaurant has only about 9 tables for 25
people. We recommend this for anyone looking for affordable home-style Japanese
food! Please check this out during you next break time!!
Indian
restaurant – AANGAN
Written by Hyeon hwa
Opening time : 11 am~ 10 pm
Phone number : 02-364-8771
Price: range from about 9000 won to 20,000 won
This restaurant provides Indian and
Nepalese traditional foods. The native Indian chef who has 15 years of cooking
experience provides authentic Indian cooking for you. You can enjoy various
types of dishes sold separately or in set courses. These include barbecue,
kebab, curries, rice, biryani (fried rice), and chowmein (noodle). There are
also various beverages. I visited here alone and ordered Prawn Biryani and
Mango Lassi. Prawn Biryani is rice cooked with prawn cubes and spices and Mango
Lassi is homemade yogurt mixed with ice, sugar and mango. The tastes were
delicious and appetizing. It totally costs 15,000 won. Most customers are students,
but many foreigners visit here and celebrate special days. It’s also a great
place for a group of people or people who visit alone. The interior design and
music makes you feel the cozy and exotic mood as if you were in India or Nepal.
Chinese
restaurant - Taehwaru
Written by JI SIQI
Opening time: 10:00 a.m. ~10:00 p.m.
Phone number :02- 325-2082
Price: 5000 won~60000 won(for a group)
Taehwaru is a traditional Chinese
restaurant near EWHA. As a real Chinese, I really suggest that you enjoy your
dinner here. You will feel like you are really in China. It is really set up in
true Chinese style.
The menu at Taehwaru is so long that I cannot show the whole menu here.
Therefore, I will introduce some popular dishes here. Their dishes are divided
to cold dishes which are appetizers and hot dishes which are for real meals.
And there are seafood, chicken, vegetable, meat, soup, noodles, rice, dumplings
and special menu here. There are also different kinds of beverages and alcohol
including Chinese alcohol. I believe that you would have many choices here. It
is a good thing and bad thing at the same time because it would be a difficult choice
for you. There are so many delicious dishes such as eggplants with hot sauce,
pork with honey and garlic sauce, Dan Dan mien and sweet and sour pork. They
are also famous in China. I ordered sweet and sour pork that time. Actually,
the tastes of dishes in Taehwaru are
more close to Korean Chinese food than real Chinese food like other Chinese
restaurants in Korea.
So why do I suggest Taehwaru? The reason is
atmosphere. As my description before, you would feel that you are really in
China. It’s amazing, isn’t?
As for price, you might feel it is
expensive. But don’t worry! 60000 won is the price of a dinner set for 4~5
persons. And the sizes of the dishes are so big that one person cannot afford
them. Therefore, if you take your friends to Taehwaru and enjoy lunch or dinner
here, you would experience a brilliant meal. Not only would you taste delicious
dishes, but also spend a happy time with your friends.
Which restaurant do you prefer? If you
choose one, go and enjoy your short abroad trip with your friends during lunch
or dinner time!