Insadong Garlic Bossam 인사동마늘보쌈

A narrow alley runs all the way back before the entrance appears, and the inner room is floor seating where shoes come off. Garlic bossam here means thick slices of well-boiled pork, tender despite the cut, wrapped in aged white kimchi rather than the usual red. Garlic sauce, lemon, dried radish and lettuce come alongside, though no salted shrimp. Crisp chive pancake and a nakji bokkeum (stir-fried octopus) milder than it looks pair with makgeolli, including chestnut and Jipyeong makgeolli. Set tables include a lot of makgeolli, so non-drinkers do better ordering a la carte. Lunch has a bossam set meal, and on busy evenings a tablet takes a phone number and sends an alert when a table opens, leaving time to wander Insadong.