Balsan Station eel date: window seat, 1kg salt-grilled eel, Jangsuchon
Jangsuchon Pungcheon Eel is a grilled eel restaurant on the second floor near Exit 3 of Balsan Station in Gangseo, Seoul. The writer and her boyfriend took a window seat and ordered 1kg of salt-grilled eel for 59,000 won, with a staff member trimming and grilling every piece at the table; the table setting fee is 3,000 won per person and banchan refills come from a self-serve bar. A complimentary eel soup and a pouch of eel extract to take home made it a proper restorative meal for two.