Korean Food: Campsie & Chung Jin Dong, Sydney

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KOREAN RESTAURANT #1
The following dishes are from a small Korean restaurant in Campsie (on a small lane off Beamish St, near the train station, don't know what it's called!). Haha there were only two non-blurry photos~~

Colourful Bibimbap

With a good Korean bibimbap, your metal bowl should be really sizzling hot. Hot enough to burn your fingers on (so be careful) but when you've finished eating the assorted veggies and meats on top, you should find a deliciously crispy browned rice bottom, which has been busy frying away the whole time on your table :)

Side dishes are the best thing about eating Korean :)
Clockwise from top, there was the usual kimchi (pickled chilli cabbage), chilli beansprouts, shredded spinach, iced beansprouts, sweet chilli bamboo, and spiced sweet potato leaves

Different K restaurants have their own specialty side dishes, so even if you're addicted bulgogi beef and order it no matter where you go, never fear! you can still get your dose of variety from the sides.

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KOREAN RESTAURANT #2
Outside Chung Jin Dong (on Pitt St), the sign says "Real Korean Food"
LOL.. we were intrigued~~

Entrance to Chung Jin Dong

Compact and friendly

There were colour photographs of the food up on the walls, so we ditched the menus. I don't order beef very often because it so often turns out overcooked and gristly, but my sister was convinced that bulgogi beef would be good, so we went for it~~

More Korean Side Dishes

Check out the honeyed potato and carrot pieces with sesame seeds on top! They were the best the best the best ! We totally couldn't stop eating them. Haha I even ordered double servings of side dishes just so we could have more honeyed potato mmmm. UNFORTUNATELY, this also meant double the amount of kimchi, which we almost died trying to finish = = ;

Beef bulgogi!

As promised, the bulgogi beef was deliciously juicy and sweet, swimming in its marinade, with chopped shallots and sesame seeds sprinkled on top. Glassy potato noodles were slippery yet chewy, dripping with flavour from the bulgogi soup

Ahhh. Bulgogi beef is officially my new favourite Korean dish!

Directions and Opening Hours for Chung Jin Dong

Kobow Korean BBQ Restaurant, Sydney

These are photos from a long loong time ago, taken at KOBOW Korean BBQ/restaurant, which is on Liverpool St in the city near Sushi-Rio and French Riviera.


Traditional Korean Bibimbap Bowl

Haha KOBOW! Doesn't that word sound like the sort of sound you'd make if you were punching someone and being punched at the same time? *...yes, yes it does!*

Kimchi Fried Rice with Egg, spicy spicy!

Korean omurice! An omelette with fried rice tucked inside, and BBQ sauce drizzled on top! <3

There was also a little takoyaki stall near the front of the restaurant, selling delicious octopus balls served with bonito flakes on top. WOW, you haven't really LIVED until you've been served a fresh batch of takoyaki - the hot air from the takoyaki balls moves through the bonito flakes and makes them LOOK LIKE THEY'RE ALIVE.

Anyway, our box of takoyaki had us (or me, at least) enthralled for about five minutes, before we went in for the kill ...grawr! I have a photo of our takoyaki box but as it is extremelyy blurry I will spare you the download.

Beef bones soup bowl - a hearty and deliciously warming soup dish with egg, wintermelon chunks and noodles curling inside

I remember this restaurant had a display cabinet of fake (but very realistic looking) example dishes at the front, made of plastics and special 'food-mould' clay. Apparently that's quite common for the bigger restaurants in Korea.

All in all, the food was very decent, but for some reason we haven't been back since. Probably because soon after, we found out there was a whole slew of interesting Korean restaurants along Pitt and Goulburn St.

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Kobow Korean Restaurant
68 Liverpool St Sydney (02 9283 8077‎)


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