Things are different in Korea-3

Eating out in Korea is CHEAP. It is going to be hard to go back home and have to pay upwards of $10 for a cheap meal. The photo below is of the menu in our local Kim-Bap Restaurant. Kim-Bap restaurants are everywhere, they are basic little places that do very casual eat in and lots of takeaway. They have a wide selection of standard Korean food: Kim-Bap (Korea's sushi), Mandu (dumplings), Bibimbap (rice with veggies and egg), Ramon, Jjigae (kinda a spicy stew hotpot thing), Donkkasu (crumbed and fried pork schnitzel with a yummy sauce) and a heap of other things that I am yet to try/translate. The most expensive thing on our local Kim-Bap shops menu is 4,500 WON (around $4.50) and is a Chi-Juh (cheese) Donkkasu. So for $4.50 you can stuff yourself with a pork schnitzel with cheese in it, topped with a delicious sauce, rice and salad.

More expensive restaurants (foreign food and Korean BBQ) are rarely more than $10-$15 a dish. Some of these "nicer" restaurants would be similar to Blue Train in Southbank (in food type, quality and atmosphere), but are basically half the price.