Friday, November 2, 2012

Jeju - Finding our veggie haven in the land of seafood

Compared to Seoul, the number of veg places in Jeju are really depressing. Will try to make do what we have and MAKE THE BEST OUT OF IT! keke. Well, here goes:

1) Loving Hut - Nohyung
Address:  1291-18, Nohyung-dong
Jeju-do South Korea
064-751-3335

According to the map, it's close to a "Hi-Mart. 
Type: Vegan, Asian, Vietnamese, Western, Take-out
Info: Accepts credit cards.
Hours: Open Mon-Sat 12-8pm, closed Sun.


2) Loving Hut -JungAng (Good reviews)
Address: 1387-3 Ido 1-dong, Jeju-si
Jeju-do South Korea
064-759-6113

Type: Vegan, Western, Korean
Info: Address in Korean is 제주시 이도1동 1387-3 1층.
Serves Korean and Western food. Friendly staff speaks English and Chinese. Sells vegan snacks, bread and instant noodles. (WE NEED TO GET THE NOODLES HERE!!) Also offers free self-service wholegrain bread.
Hours: Open Mon-Sun 11am-9pm. 

Price Range: Moderate.

3) Mulmaegol (Fantastic review/ Must try)
Address:  795-1, Susan-ri, Aewol-eup, Jeju City (at /near Coastal Road 1132 & Daewonjeongsa Temple, on Jeju Island)
Jeju-do South Korea
064-713-5486, 019-6965486

Directions:  ☎: 713-5486, 019-696-5486
Directions: From the Yeon Wu Nae restaurant, go south on the 1139 until you come to the first freeway intersection. Take a right towards Aewol (애월). Stay on the road for about 15 to 20 minutes until you see a temple on the mountain towards your left. Take a sharp right. It’s the first house on your right. (See picture.)
Type: Vegan-friendly, Korean
Info: Name in Korean is 물메골. Address in Korean is 제주특별자치도 제주시 애월읍 수산리 795-1번지. The restaurant is inside a double-story residential cozy house, serving Korean temple food on Jeju Island, west of Jeju City. Nearby Daewonjeongsa temple.

Serves vegetarian temple food such as lotus leaf rice (yeoipbap (연잎밥) **highly recommended), noodle soup, tea, pancake, salad, seaweed, cookies, kimchi, tofu etc. ffers 2 main dishes: Tteulkkae sujebi (뜰깨수제비) & lotus leaf rice (연잎밥). Varying side dishes (banchan/반찬). Unique dessert included with the meal, a traditional Jeju rice 'yogurt' called ‘shindari’ (쉰다리). The restaurant owner, Ms. Kim, is also known for holding traditional vegetarian temple cooking classes every once in a while. Price is around 7000W per meal. 
Recommended : Rice wrapped cookies
Hours: Open daily 10am-8pm.
Price Range: Moderate.


4) Yeon-u-nae (eh.. Bad review here for environment)
Address:  Jeju Special Self-Governing Province Jeju-si Nohyeong-dong 571-2, South Korea
Recommended : Soup , Sujaebi (made from green tea noodles and a creamy broth of peeled perilla seed powder) 
Directions: To get to Yeon-u-nae take the road heading towards the mysterious road 1100, South until you get to the Halla Arboretum. Turn right at the arboretum and then a quick left at the coffee shop. The entrance to Yeon-u-nae is on the right. It is the building behind the coffee shop.
Price Range: Inexpensive

5) Gilsup Nageunae:
Directions: The name literally means ‘roadside traveler’ and is quite in the middle of nowhere. Located off the 1137 on the northeast side of the island.
Choices here include organic vegetable wraps, mulberry pancakes and wild sesame porridge among other veggie selections on the menu.
☎: 782-5971, 019-9761-5970

6)  The Shinjeju Grand Hotel Well-Being Buffet
Address: (if i am not wrong)  263-15,Yon-dong, Jeju
Jeju Shin-Jeju
South Korea
Offering freshly baked buns to die for with a well-stocked salad bar, this has to be one of the easiest places to be for vegetarians to pig out. However, it is only offered during lunch hours between 12:00 to 3:00 pm everyday. It’s highly recommended for lazy brunches on weekends, and the people here do speak English.
Price: 8500 won/person
☎: 747-4900 (ext. 237)

Conclusion: After all these findings, I am really glad that Jeju's vegetarian foods was not as pathetic as I had deemed it to be. Now, the next step, to find all these places and review them! =D



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