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    Seoul | Palsaek Samgyeopsal (팔색삼겹살) Pork Belly BBQ

    Seoul | Palsaek Samgyeopsal (팔색삼겹살) Pork Belly BBQ

    A tip on finding restaurants in Korea via other people’s somewhat outdated blog posts: Make sure to double-check said restaurant is still in existence before spending an hour roaming around in the freezing cold, growing increasingly pissy as hunger sets in, while hopelessly searching for a place that has long since closed its doors.

    For once we had a plan. We found a restaurant that we both agreed on and we even had directions, which we followed to a T. How could we go wrong? We walked confidently to our desired location — a spicy chicken restaurant — passing up landmark after landmark and mentally checking them off in our heads. Finally we arrived at the restaurant…. except … where was it?

    How many times in our lives were we going to reenact the exact same scene of getting lost trying to find a restaurant in Korea?

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