Hae Kum Gang for BM

I'd been to Hae Kum Gang last Friday to review it for Bangalore Mirror. The review, in full text, can be read either here, at the Bangalore Mirror site, or the watered down version with just what we ate, down below.

The pictures here were taken by the Bangalore Mirror photographer Durgesh, and since I couldn't take any, we'll have to make do with these for now.

The haemul pajeon is a pancake-like dish, made with flour and eggs, with a good amount of seafood tossed into it. The base is like a puff-pastry, while the top is fluffy. This has become my favourite egg-based dish.


This sushi-like dish is called a kimbap. It's the Korean version of sushi, an just like sushi, it's filled with rice, with vegetables and meat in the center, wrapped in seaweed, and then cut. This is a very popular fastfood dish.


This firey red dish is called a kkan pung gi, and is fried chicken cooked in a sweet garlic sauce. It's not as spicey as the colour indicates, and it didn't seem as if some kind of colouring was added.


The dish below is a pork dish called tang su yuk. What is unique is one of the main ingredient, which until now I had never encountered in any cuisine. Guess what the yellow coloured liquid is? Honey! Yup, pork with vegetables and honey. This was yum, and for someone like me who has a sweet tooth, this was something I reall loved.


The patties seen below are called beef wanja. Ground beef, herbs, garlic, a little seasoning - presto! Melt in your mouth tenderness.


Although I don't have the snaps of all the dishes we ate, this was just a summary. The full details can be read in the review in the link provided above. Below is the cut fruit salad in orange juice syrup.




Service - Prompt, helpful
Food - Fantastic
$$$ - Larger the group, lower you pay. The 9 of us paid 300 each including tips.
Verdict - Certainly a place to visit
Extra Info - Finding parking on Castle may turn out to be a problem, so try to park somewhere else.

Hae Kum Gang, #20, Paul Castle, Castle Street, Ashoknagar, Off Brigade Road, Bangalore. Phone: 41127730, 41127732