What time is your lunch time? Is it the same as your friends? Unfortunately, it is probably different, so you often have to have lunch alone. The problem is that most restaurants are set up for groups, which makes it uncomfortable when you have to eat alone.
To help you out, we discovered several restaurants especially good for lone diners: Mommy’s Handmade Cut Noodle, Urakku Kitchen, Jin Noodle and The Fruit Between Breads.
Mommy’s
Handmade Cut Noodle
Opening time:
Address:
Main customers: day laborers, older
people and students
Price: 5000 ~ 7000
Sometimes you want a Korean traditional lunch, especially when you skip breakfast. Of course, there are some Korean restaurants selling this, including hot soup. As you know, however, the shops which are well known are so expensive.
Is there no alternative? The answer is “YES!
Mommy’s Handmade Cut Noodle.” You can
guess that the main dish here is cut noodle, because of the name. But I
recommend hot soup and roasted meat with sauce. Most of the roasted meats with
sauce dishes sell for \6000 and the hot Korean soups sell for \5000. If you
want to eat more, just ask the owner. She’ll give more rice and side dishes.
This restaurant is popular for the
people who live or work near the university because of the reasonable price and
the quality of food.
The appearance is humble, but
comfortable and familiar. You will find some big stairs, wooden tables and an old
television, so you may think you are in a unique space.
Urakku
Kitchen
Opening time: 11:30
Address:
Main customers: students
Price: \7500
Urakku Kitchen is a Japanese restaurant
located nearby the main gate of Ewha Woman’s University. You may find the
restaurant next to Mr. Pizza. Urakku kitchen has long tables so that people who
come by themselves can enjoy their meals as well as those who come in groups of
two.
The restaurant has three meal types:
kimchi gatsunabe (which is a stew made of kimchi and pork cutlet), Gatsudong
(which is a bowl of rice with several vegetables and pork cutlet), and garayakedong
(which is similar to gatsudong but made with chicken, not with pork cutlet).
Kimchi gatsunabe is the most popular meal. Also, their prices are reasonable:
all meals cost 7,500 won!
In the restaurant, we feel like we are
in Japan. Because of its atmosphere and taste, many students visit the popular
restaurant for lunch, so it is common to wait for 30 minutes or so.
Urakku Kitchen opens at 11:30 and has
its break time from 3 to 4. It takes the last order at 7 and closes at 8. The
restaurant doesn’t open on weekends.
Between classes, if you do not have any
friends who are available at the moment, how about trying Japanese traditional
food for lunch?
Jin
Noodle
Opening time:
Address:
Main customers: students, tourists
Price: \3500~4000
Jin Noodle is located in the second street
from Ewha. You have to go out through the main entrance and go straight for a
block. Turn right at that corner. You can find Jin Noodles on your left. Its
sign is small and hard to see, but you can find it by the red Chinese character.
Upon entering, you can see long tables
toward the walls. There are seats for customers who come alone, so you can
enjoy your lunch without friends. The mood is old fashioned and comfortable.
The prices are quite reasonable for students.
The main meals are Banquet Noodles and Spicy noodles. They cost only \3,500~4,000.
Because of the cheap prices, there are a variety of visitors including students
and tourists.
The
Fruit Between Breads
Opening time:
Address: 57, Ewhayeodae-gil, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul,
Korea
Main customers: students and teenagers
Price: 3500~4000
Do you like sandwiches? As you know, sandwiches
are yummy and making sandwiches is entertaining. Especially, it makes you happy
to have various kinds of sandwiches all together.
‘The Fruit Between Breads’ has sold
various kinds of sandwiches since 1979. Upon entering the restaurant, there is
one long table attached to the wall and four chairs for customers coming alone.
The main customer group is young students.
You can eat a slight lunch here. The main
choices are fruit sandwich, Oreo cookie shake and tteokbokki covered by an
amount of cheese. These are all available for \3500.
Now, enjoy your own free lunch time!