c and i just came back from a few weeks holiday in europe and we have a lot of new food posts to put on wagyupie.com! we want to start this series with our very first meal at the start of this trip, a meal in south korea where we transit to go to london. we flew korean air, and with any transfers that require an overnight stay, korean air provides complimentary accommodation! ours was in a lovely hotel in incheon called holiday inn incheon songdo, which was in my opinion the best place we stayed in our entire trip – c and i preferred to spend money on food and visiting places. we had 2 meals at the restaurant in the hotel, dinner when we first arrived and brekky the next morning.
the dinner buffet was absolutely amazing. we checked the price online after having dinner and found that it goes for $60 pp, which explained the high quality food served! there was a good mix of western and eastern food, from sweet and sour pork to bibimbab to steak. see the photos below for views of the restaurant, and more importantly the spread:
i had a lot of sashimi at this buffet. eating mainly salmon, with a few pieces of kingfish, i must have had about fifteen to twenty pieces of fish. i only stopped because i really wanted to try something else, even though the fish was absolutely fresh and delicious.
the pho was a bit of a diy exercise. put whatever you want into a bowl and pass it to the chef, who then puts noodles to the mix and cooks the lot. i added salmon, prawn, steak and other toppings and it was a really delicious bowl of noodles.
the prawn dish was called gambas a allaceo, which i cannot seem to translate via google. the prawn was okay, and it was cooked in tomato sauce. mushroom with pork filling was also okay. grilled salmon on the other hand was a bit dry. deep fried chicken was fried in sweet sauce, which is not the traditional salty version which i prefer, but was good. steak was cooked fresh and wasn’t overdone.
i also took a stab at eating crab. it was a bit messy, and a lot of effort for a bit of meat (not a huge fan of crab cooked this way), but was also okay.
on to desserts! the green tea ice cream was absolutely tops. it wasn’t icy, a bit bitter from the tea and was delightful to eat. both c and i paired our ice cream with cheesecake which was a real treat; cheesy and creamy. yum.
we retired to our hotel room nice and full, only to be greeted with an amazing breakfast ($25pp)! first have a view of the buffet spread:
the hash brown was absolutely delicious and crispy. oh hash brown is definitely one of the best brekky items, if it is not made of potato and is full of carbs! dim sums were perfectly done, i recommend the yellow version which had seafood and mushroom in them.
the noodle soup was okay, however, i won’t eat these again because there are dfinitely better stuff at the buffet. i’m a big fan of toppings so you can see the toppings i have added to my noodle soup.
i attempted to go slightly healthy, so opted for a bit of salad (which may have contained potato). that was okay.
and.. more dim sums and hash browns. what you see here as well are rice balls, which c was a huge fan off. it was rice covered in seaweed, and c being a big fan of seaweed had quite a few of these.
i couldn’t stop myself from ordering an egg fried over easy at the egg counter. delicious!
all in all, breakfast was a lovely meal. if you wondered why i didn’t have bacon, that was due to me pigging out (pun intended) on bacon in the lounge prior to the flight to south korea. c confirmed that it was really crispy, but i just couldn’t face bacon that day.
ps: this post breaks the record for most photos on one post!
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