Kanto-style eel rice bowl with pickled radish at Manmok, Gangnam
Manmok is a Kanto-style eel rice bowl restaurant a 5-minute walk from Seonleung Station in Gangnam, Seoul. The writer ordered the whole-eel rice bowl (₩39,000), which came with salad, chawanmushi (savory steamed egg custard), soup, pickled radish salad, and ice cream for dessert, with seasoning light enough that the eel's own savoriness and charcoal aroma came through. Anyone looking for a proper eel rice bowl lunch around Daechi-dong or Seonleung should try Manmok.