All You Can Eat LATE NIGHT Korean SEAFOOD BBQ & STEAM POT Buffet in Seoul South Korea

Hey guys, it's Mike Chen. In this video, I am in Seoul, South Korea, and I found one of the most unique Korean barbecues in the city. This place serves Korean Hanwoo and the amazing Jeju pork, and the whole restaurant looks like it's inside of a volcano. Then I'm heading to a Korean-Italian restaurant that's gotta be on your food bucket list. And finally, an all-you-can-eat shellfish buffet that's one of the best seafood deals in the city. And before getting to that, a big thank you and shout out to the sponsor of this video, Upside. I mentioned this before, but this is one of the greatest apps out there. So if you don't know, Upside is a free app that easily lets you earn actual cash back on groceries, gas, dining out, simply by claiming offers before paying with your normal credit card. For me, I drive around a lot, and gas is incredibly expensive pretty much everywhere. And of course, when I'm driving, I'm usually going to restaurants or grocery stores. 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There's some mentaiko, some chilies, some peppers, some salt. This here is the grill. Not really sure what this is. This is a fancy place. Very expensive compared to regular Korean barbecues. All right, I got a bunch of stuff. I mean, it's cheaper than flying a jet jet, right? Okay, so I ordered the signature platter and it comes with beef short rib and sirloin. So this is the sirloin and this is the beef rib. Wow. Okay. That's a nice fatty marble beef rib. So this is the sirloin. Dunk it in their sauce. Okay, that is just some crazy tender sirloin. I can't imagine how tender the beef ribs are going to be. It tastes like hanwoo. I think that's hanwoo. That's some top quality meat. Like as top as you can get. Perfectly seared, beautifully smoky from the wood charcoal. It just melts. Oh, that's so freaking good. And they're all just kind of sizzling on this little stone. Just a little salt and pepper. This is, I believe you, speechless bites of beef. 100% hanwoo. It's so freaking good. It melts at the same time. It still has a great lean beefy flavor. My God. Look how perfectly it's cooked. A little wasabi, a little salt and pepper. If that's not meat perfection, I really don't know what is. Okay, I've never done this before. Beef and mentaiko. What? Okay. Seriously. This combo. Oh, that's interesting. If you want to add even more umami to a fatty piece of beef, add some mentaiko to it. Wow. Oh, the aftertaste. That's some fishy umami aftertaste. Oh, that's pretty good. They also brought over. What is this? Oh, look at this rice. So if you ordered the lunch special or the set, it comes with this nutritional rice. It has pumpkin, ginkgo nuts. Basically it's just Korean nutritional rice. Let's try some of this. This is, I think this is thin slices of pork belly right here. I feel like this thing definitely will need some wasabi. Cut down the richness. Salt and pepper. Wow. That's amazing. Jeju black pig, what's really special about it, is zero gaminess. It tastes so clean. That tastes like beef. Just a fattier beef almost. In terms of gaminess. Like zero. And of course, the pork is perfect to make it into some ssam. I'm gonna try a different dipping sauce. Some scallions. Give that a wrap. Incredible. Tender, fatty. Almost a slight sweet nuttiness to it. Seriously. Sweet nuttiness in the fat of that pork. Oh, this pork is freaking delicious. And the thick pork belly just showed up. And they put some rosemary on this for even more herby flavor. Dunk that in some hot soybean paste. Mmm. And you can definitely taste it. Wow. I think it's pure juice. It's so juicy. I'm gonna try and chase it with my nutritional rice. Mmm. It's actually good to have some rice, because that pork is so fatty and rich. Abalone doesn't seem that impressive anymore. Check this out. The vegetables have arrived. Grilled vegetables. Some zucchini. Some lettuce. Mushrooms. Tomatoes. Potatoes. Corn. Also, if you're gonna eat Korean barbecue, gotta get some cold noodles. And this one is a fancy one. Slices of beef. Give it a couple cuts. Chase it with some cold noodles. I feel like Korean barbecue, honestly, without cold noodles, a bit incomplete. The perfect balance for this fatty, fatty pork. It's the most perfect balance, seriously. That's so good. Oh, the soup they give you, it's a full-on seafood soup with crabs and clams and shrimp inside. Oh, it's so good. Oh, that soup will go so well with my nutritious rice. Mmm. Oh, it's so good. Everything is so good. I love the slices. So, this is really interesting. I got a couple giant Jeju abalone. They're cooking the guts of the abalone first. Freshly grilled abalone. Giant abalone. The guts are on the bottom, so what you do is you dunk your meat into the abalone guts, and just like the crab guts, that's where all the flavor is. That's awesome. That is freaking delicious abalone. That wood charcoal adds so much flavor and smoke to everything it touches. I've never actually dunked the abalone meat into its own innards before. Way more flavor. You don't need anything else on that. That's absolutely perfect. Even the vegetable's good. Look how nicely cooked the scallion is. There's some cheese-covered cabbage. This is an absolute beast. Everything is so good. Also, what's really good, just munch on a raw chili when you take a bite of your meat, There's just so many great ways to enjoy this pork. Yeah, this place is awesome. I am definitely feeling in Dublin, especially after this bowl of noodles. Oh, and by the way, after dinner, there's a soft-serve machine right by the cash register. Get the soft-serve. This is incredible ice cream. This tastes like borderline Hokkaido ice cream. Delicious. Get this. Get a lot of it. So what I got was the premium one-person platter. You get the rice with that, you get a soup with that. You get Hanwoo, and I double-checked that. It is Hanwoo. So you get some really premium cuts of steak, and the pork's amazing. All that was about a hundred US dollars. Not cheap, definitely. But that's definitely a really, really nice place. And not far from the Jeju Pork Restaurant, I really wanted to try this place. This place is a fusion restaurant, and they serve Korean-Italian or Italian-Korean dishes, however you want to see it. So this one that I got, that even though it has three pieces of broccoli, it looks pretty good. This is cuttlefish paella. So I guess the cuttlefish part, the Korean part, paella part, the Spanish part. So I guess also Korean and Spanish food? Oh, there's shrimp in here as well, okay. Shrimp and cuttlefish paella. Just avoid the broccoli right there. Okay, this looks pretty nice. It's like a saucy dish. This is so good. Oh my gosh, you gotta come and try this. This is incredible. This is spicy. Spicy and just a total deep flavor. Oh, this is amazing. The rice is perfect. Oh, the shrimp looks nice and plump too. What? Oh my god. Looks like they grill the shrimp in calamari over charcoal. That is a tender squid. Wow. If you're ever in South Korea, you gotta try this. My god, this paella is legendary. This is like a 10 dish. Solid 10. Favorite paella I ever had. Okay, this is their other signature dish. This is the truffle potato gnocchi. Potato gnocchi. Truffle, some potato chips, I think? All right, so let's try this. Man, this looks good too. Must try restaurant in South Korea. Oh my gosh, are you kidding me how good this is? Truffle, crunchy potato chips. The gnocchi is perfect. This is as perfect as gnocchis go. Toasted soft and the softness is balanced out, of course, by the crunchy potato chips. It's so earthy. There's so much truffle flavor in here. Get out of here with this. This restaurant is legit. No wonder it's always a wait. It is legit. When you're in South Korea, come try this place out. Ultimate recommend. Shocking how good this is. Like, even though I've been eating delicious food all the time, the level of deliciousness of these dishes still shock me. One of the best restaurants I've been to in South Korea. That's so good. I might need a little break after this, but this food tour should be continued. One last meal for today. And this one is gonna be spectacular. I always try to hunt down really good all-you-can-eat clan buffets in Korea, which is something I love. I've never been to this place before. This place looks so modern. All the other clan buffets I've been to are pretty old school looking. Look at this. 249. Unlimited clams. Let's go. I think the best option is the 30,000 won option. Man, this place looks so bright and clean looking. This one is pretty interesting. Usually at clan buffets, the clams are just sitting there. I'm kind of used to that. Here, they bring you everything. So they just brought me some fish cake soup, a bowl of oysters. These are some ginormous oysters. All right. I see people with tons of different seafood on their grill. I'm not sure how to get that yet. So the oyster, they already cooked back in the kitchen. They just brought it over here. Add a little bit of soy. Gochujang. There we go. A really plump oyster. That's for sure fresh. Fish cake soup is pretty good. Very peppery. Something massive just arrived. Wow. Now we're cooking with fire. Look at this beast of a plate. This is... My goodness. Wow. So all you can eat includes everything except for the scallops and the abalone. Check out the abalone. Yeah, that thing is moving real good. So besides the scallop and the abalone, everything else is all you can eat. The shrimps, the clams, the bay scallops, the sea snails, the fan clams. That's amazing. That's really good stuff. My gosh. Here we go. Let's put some scallops on the grill. Abalone. Wow. Okay, this thing is just going directly on the grill. Some ginormous clams. No way. More stuff is coming. Whoa. So this just showed up. Fan clams, regular clams, bay scallops, shrimp. Okay, this is gnarly. So a bunch of stuff just went on the grill. The steamed, ginormous steamed pot of seafood just showed up. I honestly don't even know what I ordered. I think I just ordered all you can eat. Okay, let's eat. Wow, if you like seafood, this is the place for you. A little bit of soy sauce goes on the fan clam. That is unbelievably fresh. The scallops are bubbling. Oh, the clams are about to open. Check this out. As soon as they pop open, they're good to go. Abalone is a cooking. Okay, so scallops are ready for sure. The stuff is ready. Yeah, this clam just popped open. This is good to go. Look how juicy and plump these clams are. It's just, ah. Oh my gosh, it's so hot. I'm going to put on these gloves. That's why they give these gloves to you. There's a reason for that. If you're going to touch a clam, use a glove. It's just cooking in its own juice, by the way. That is as good as clams can get. Cooked in its own juice. Nice and briny. Super plump. This is scallops cooked in a little cheese. This stuff is not all you can eat, unfortunately. Wow, this is great. Yeah, I would have ordered like 20 of these. Toasty cheese, sweet scallops. This place is crazy. The abalone is cooked now. This is such a premium item. Wow. Abalone, when it's cooked right, is the most tender thing. When it's cooked too long, it tastes like rubber. That is cooked just right. That's so freaking tender and sweet. My favorite things though, man, these clams are so good. Man, look at this one. The juice is all collected on the bottom. This one is perfect. You got to be careful with them. They're so hot. They're so freaking deliciously plump. They taste like the best parts of the ocean. Man, I love the clams so much. Definitely getting more of the clams. I think it's time to get another basket of steamed seafood. This went down super easy. Okay, let's throw more stuff on the grill. Man, these clams are stuffed full. Cheese, corn, chilies, peppers. I think these fan clams, you got to flip them. Otherwise, it's going to get really cooked on one side. The other side, not at all. My giant fan clam is ready. This is my glove. Got to be careful with these things. I need a little gochujang on this. If this is not a seafood lover's dream, I don't know what is. Everything cooked in that juice is automatically an upgrade. Oh, it's so good. Let's throw more stuff on the grill. While the seafood is cooking on the grill, the steamed pot showed up again. So this restaurant, you can choose whether you just want steamed seafood or grilled. Get both. Just get both. This is the conch right here. A little gochujang. Awesome with a hint of funk. Man, this thing is definitely a little funky. It's not going to smell great, but it's a tender and it's a delicious. This is like the stinky tofu of the seafood world. Oh yeah, I add a lot of funk to this. It tastes good though. It's so tender. It's about as tender as the abalone. Look how much seafood went through. One full bucket. I got to get a new bucket. This place is so cool. I love how modern it is. I told you, usually these clam buffets are very dark. Maybe not as clean. This place is amazing. Look at this thing. Oh my gosh. Look how ginormous the scallop is. It's so tender. What a great find. I was just trying to see what's around me. And all of a sudden I was like, Man, I haven't had a clam buffet in a while. And this place popped up. If you like fresh seafood, you're going to love this place. I think that wraps up another jam-packed food day. That's why I love South Korea. Don't give me any days like this. As always, I'll place a link to this down below for you guys. Thank you all so much for watching. Until we eat again, see you later.