Ferry Queue Lunch Eater · 5 stories
Writes about a restaurant meal in Incheon and what made it worth the trip. · Writes about: Restaurants · Cafés
Ganaandeok Gyeyang Branch is a duck restaurant near Bakchon Station in Gyeyang-gu, Incheon. Three people shared one mud-baked duck (69,000 won), eating the nutty duck meat with a stuffing of rice, fig, sweet potato, jujube and medicinal herbs, plus free mung bean pancakes. Ganaandeok Gyeyang Branch's mud-baked duck is a generous, restorative dish, right down to the sweet rice inside the duck.
Dalgeuraem is a new salt bread bakery café in Gyesan-dong, Gyeyang-gu, Incheon. At Dalgeuraem the writer ordered a basil tomato ade (5,500 won), a peanut cream latte (6,000 won), a decaf americano (4,500 won) and a melon milk cake (8,200 won), and found the basil tomato ade and the melon milk cake the most memorable. Dalgeuraem is a good new Gyesan-dong café for alternating drinks and cake with very different flavors.
Muirang Mulhoerang Hyoseong Direct Branch is a mulhoe (cold raw fish soup) and seafood restaurant on Saebeol-ro in Hyoseong-dong, Gyeyang, Incheon. The writer ordered assorted mulhoe for one (25,000 won) and steamed whole baby squid (30,000 won), plus a bite-size kalguksu (knife-cut noodle soup) from a review event, eating cold mulhoe, warm squid and spicy broth in turn. Muirang Mulhoerang Hyoseong Direct Branch is a good pick for sweet-and-sour mulhoe with fresh raw fish, alternated with hot and cold dishes.
Yeonan Hwareo Haemul Pocha (연안활어해물포차) is a neighborhood live fish and seafood pub tucked inside Dongyang-dong in Gyeyang-gu, Incheon, known for flounder sashimi sliced into long strips instead of bone-in seokkoshi. The flounder sashimi for 2 (45,000 won) was ordered with spicy fish stew and rice, and sides of corn mayo, steamed white clams, flatfish, fried shrimp, albap (fish roe rice) and hoemuchim (spicy raw fish salad) filled the table first. The long, thin flounder slices stay pleasantly chewy, making Yeonan Hwareo Haemul Pocha worth remembering when you want flounder sashimi that's different from the usual.
Withwich is a sandwich, pizza and pasta restaurant on Seonsuchongongwon-ro in Guwol-dong, Namdong-gu, Incheon. The blogger ordered a spicy perilla leaf bulgogi sandwich, a margherita cheese pizza and a carbonara cream pasta à la carte at the kiosk to share. The perilla bulgogi sandwich was enormous, and its sweet-salty sauce tasted like ranch and sweet chili together. Withwich is a good Guwol-dong stop when you want to switch between sandwiches, pizza and pasta at one table.
