Category Archives: Restaurants (In Brisbane)

Korean Restaurant Visit – Maru in Brisbane

Dolsot Jjajang Tonkatsu (Pork cutlet with black bean sauce served in a hot stone pot) | My Korean Kitchen

I have a monthly play date day with my sister. We live in the same house but we don’t actually get to spend much time together, so we started this play date thing about two months ago. We go out for brunch or lunch and chat for 2-3 hours without any distractions. (Though on this occasion, I was quite distracted as I was busy taking multiple photos of food as it was arriving. *guilty*…Perhaps we should go to a non-Korean restaurant next time to spend real quality time together. :) )

A few weeks ago on our play date day, we decided to go to a Korean restaurant in the heart of Brisbane CBD. I didn’t have any particular food that I craved for as I’ve been cooking and eating Korean food for most of the meals since I came back to my blogging again, but my sister said she wanted to eat Sundubu Jjigae (Uncurdled Tofu Stew). While each restaurant might sell the same food, they all have different strengths in different food. According to my sister (who often visits various Korean restaurants here), soup & stew is best at Maru. So off we went. While Maru’s been around for a couple of years, this was my first visit. It was just after half past one, so it wasn’t as busy as it could be, but still tables were reasonably filled up.

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Korean Restaurant Visit – Midam in Brisbane

Bibim Naengmyeon and Galbijjim

(Centre: Bibim Naengmyeon)

We’ve had a plan to go to a Korean grocery store since last Monday. As the Lunar New Years Day is approaching fast (10th February, this year), we decided to venture out a bit further for our Korean grocery shopping needs. Our local Korean grocery store is only 5 mins drive from us and we do most of our Korean grocery shopping there. It is the only Korean grocer in the north side of Brisbane, but we don’t like that place as much. They don’t have as many products available as the southern stores.

The point is, I wanted to the make most out of this outing. The last time we went to the opposite side of town for Korean grocery shopping was like.. 6 years ago. Yeah, when I first immigrated from Korea.

I had this particular food that I wanted to try for about two months. That was Naengmyeon (Korean cold noodles)! I wanted to try both versions – one served in cold icy water (Mul Naengmyeon 물냉면) and one served in spicy sauce (Bibim Naengmyeon 비빔냉면). So I looked vigorously through the local Korean Sunday newspaper (made for Gyopo) to find a possible place we could visit, and BINGO!

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