SAaM

Unfinished walls, rough floors, Formica tables… If the space feels a little busted up, it’s in a good way. And it’s hard to find better quality fast food than at this small café with a dual identity: expect Korean dupbaps – rice bowls with sautéed and raw vegetables, soy beans and egg yolk, topped with 5-spice fried chicken in a peanut and sesame sauce for example; and Taiwanese gun baos – springy stuffed buns filled with fried hake beignets, pickled carrots, green cabbage and cilantro for the seafood version, or tender prime rib in a miso marinade all topped with cucumber and ginger, served with some delicious homemade fries with both mayonnaise and BBQ sauce for dipping… Unless you’d rather opt for the incredible toppoki, a Korean rice dough that feels similar to gnocchi, but with a more unique texture, tucked into crème fraiche and chipotle-apple sauce; before cheesecake or green tea crème brûlée for dessert. // Ninsu

FEELING THIRSTY? Cocktails that pay homage to the Land of the Morning Calm like the Mako Yuzu made with milky makgeolli, a fermented rice alcohol (€7), Japanese Coedo Shiro white beer (€6 for 330 ml), an aphrodisiac yuzu-ginger infusion (€4) or Korean Chunga sake (€4 for 60 ml).
PRICE: Set menus €11-14 (weekday lunch), dupbap €16, gua bao €15-16, sides €3-9, desserts €5-6.