Mak's noodle

Noodle house!

Another food place worthy of commenting! We'd have to say, there really isn't a whole lot of authentic Chinese cuisines when it comes to being in Korea. This is really surprising, considering how close we are to China. Infact, North Korea is connected to China! The peninsula is only seperated by the Yellow Sea.

Regardless, we finally found a Chinese restaurant, kind of, worthy to say "GO AND EAT SOOOOME!"

This Chinese restaurant isn't your typical Chinese restaraunt, and it isn't serving Korean-ized Chinese food either! If you lived in Hong Kong or Guangzhou (Canton), you would have this stuff for breakfast/lunch/snack. It's fast, easy and incredibly delicious! This is something Ian ate almost everyday for breakfast when him and his brother went to China. And because it`s kind of a "fast food", it's not your typical restaurant.

What this is called, wonton soup. It's a soup served with egg noodles and these dumplings called wonton, a Cantonese word. But that`s not all they have. They have a few more selections of different dumplings, and braised beef in wonton soup. This is, afterall, a "wonton dim" (roughly translated would be: "wonton house"). You can order large or small portions, 8,500 and 5,500 Korean won, respectively for your straight up wonton noodle soup. That's about 8 or 5 USD. If you order the large portion, it could be a meal. The smaller portions are tie-overs to your next meal.


The dumplings were incredibly flavourful. The kind of flavourful like dim sum's har gaow tastes. Infact, this is how it should taste in the har gaow. It's authentic, that's for sure, unlike the Western China restaurant that we went to before. The broth and the noodles are dead on. It feels like it straight out of Hong Kong.

From Hong Kong to Seoul, the food finally made a debut! You can see the noodles being prepared in one of the pictures by two sweet old ladies.Can't get your dim sum fix? This place'll tame those cravings for now. But still searching for dim sum... Ian is a happy guy.

We're not sure who the owner is, but they were all speaking Korean when we entered. The restaurant itself is a franchise stretching out of Hong Kong called Mak`s Noodle Co., LTD. Yes, a company limited. The business card is all in Chinese and a seperate one in Korean. Mak's Noodle is located right on Itaewon Street, infact outside the station. This is one of those places to eat in Seoul, one to mark down, and one for us to come back to again and again.

To get there: Itaewon Station (Line 6, brown line) Exit 4. Do an about turn and walk toward the IBK bank, and Gecko's is above. Go to the left of the bank (don't enter the bank) the house is tucked in the back corner.