The Gaon Experience
📸 The Gaon Experience
📍 M Floor Horim Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
🇰🇷 Korean Traditonal Cuisine
📖 Dinner Menu
₩ 300,000
👨🍳 Byoung Jin Kim
🏆 🌟Michelin Star (2017-2022)
Gaon is one of the two restaurants in Seoul to be awarded three stars when Michelin launched its guide to the South Korean capital in 2017. The private dining room is conducted in an elegant room and traditional Korean ingredients and technique are used within a classic tasting menu format.
We ordered the dinner menu as follows:
5️⃣ flavors of nature
🍸wasong drink (Korean green leaves and edible flowers)
🦐sweet shrimp, soya sauce and jelly
🥩raw beef with Korean caviar
🦪clam mixed with scallop, pork, beef and clam
🌾 soybean and Korean seaweed
steamed (ijim)
kelp steamed abalone and red ginseng,
served with mung bean porridge
grilled (gui)
grilled skewer of croaker
and striploin, marinated in soy sauce
grilled (gui)
grilled seaperch marinated in nuruk salt
and served with soy sauce flavored with
grilled seapearch bones
grilled (gui)
hay smoked eel marinated in gochujang
(fermented chili paste), then lightly grilled
ginseng napa cabbage
48-hour brewed medicinal herbs with chestnut honey
naju pear, stuffed with pickled napa cabbage from pyongchang
grilled (gui)
beef ribs seasoned in nuruk salt and abalone
served with cabbage dressed in anchovy sauce and chilli
powder with bamboo shoot and pear slices
meal (jin-ji)
daily milled rice cooked in a hotpot,
topped with chicken and ginseng,
served with soup made of chicken and water parsley
desserts
pat bing su | peach
Ickwheat tea
seaweed sandwich cookie
perilla honey cookie| omija jelly
VERDICT:
On the eve of my birthday, we decided to go to Gaon to try their menu. Fortunately, I reserved around a month early so they gave us a private room. Regarding the dishes, I think the pictures speak for themselves. The overall experience has been amazing! Every detail, every flavour, every smell of the dishes were amazing and I really recommend not only Koreans but foreigners to try as you get to try every aspect of traditional korean dishes even though it was a bit filling!
Food: 🌟🌟🌟🌟
Ambience: 🌟🌟🌟🌟
Price: 🌟🌟🌟
Service: 🌟🌟🌟
Experience: 🌟🌟🌟🌟
(Out of 5 Stars)
