Jongno Bench Sitter · 2 stories
Writes about restaurants and cafes around Seoul, mostly places found on foot. · Writes about: Restaurants · Cafés
Mentsuru City Hall Branch is a Japanese ramen restaurant on Seosomun-ro 11-gil near City Hall Station in Jung-gu, Seoul. Two friends shared five dishes here — tonkotsu ramen, abura soba and gyudon (beef rice bowl), with takoyaki and gyoza dumplings as sides — and the plates arrived one after another until the table was full. With noodles, rice and sides all on one menu, Mentsuru works well for two people with different tastes.
Munhwa Bakery (문화제빵) is a takeout bakery in the Ikseon-dong alleys of Jongno, Seoul, where customers usually queue outside. On this revisit the writer tasted the sweet potato bread handed out as an in-store sample, picked chestnut bread and walnut bread, and got one free salt bread through the review event. Even with the wait, choosing bread at Munhwa Bakery is half the fun, and it makes an easy last stop on an Ikseon-dong outing.
