Knowing that I plan to go Insadong, my colleague introduced me to have lunch at this Kamameshi restaurant. The traditional Japanese Kamameshi is cooked in an iron pot but this Kamameshi is cooked in the Korean stone pot, so I named it Korean Style Kamameshi instead 🙂

This is the entrance of the restaurant. Actually, the restaurant has two entrances. The one on the left hand side opens into another section of the restaurant.

It is quite a simple menu – just 2 pages. Left page is the kamameshi menu, right page is the yakitori menu. I chose the 2nd item on the kamameshi menu which is the seafood kamameshi.

Wow! Doesn’t it look simply delicious!! Plenty of ingredients go into this one pot – prawns, seafood sticks, clams, carrot slices, bamboo shoots, dates, lotus seeds etc. All the flavour and taste in the rice come only from these ingredients so for someone who is used to strong flavours (like me), you might find this dish a bit bland. It that is the case, you can always add in the sauce by the side. For me, I still prefer the wholesome taste of this sumptuous pot, especially the crispy rice at the bottom. Even though I was feeling quite full, I just could not resist scrapping every single bit of the rice from the bottom of the pot 🙂 🙂

Looking at the other diners “scrapping” away around me, I was sure I was not the only happy one with a satisfying lunch.

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