"Don’t let the dodgy strip mall location off Western deceive: Bukchon’s wood-adorned, elegant Old World-style interiors house one of the city’s more unapologetically traditionalist menus. Between the soojaebi (Korean soup with torn pasta) and samgyetang (Korean chicken soup) is a kalguksu that’s gaining serious buzz around town. The clam kalguksu has a refreshing broth and is adorned with buchu, or flat garlic chive, and the anchovy is as worthy a bowl of soup noodles as any in town. Though a relative newcomer, expect the restaurant to become one of the city’s strip mall stalwarts." - Euno Lee