Best deal for typical Korean dishes: Restaurant Ddeuraraechae (뜰아래채), Insadong

It can’t get much more Korean when you want to experience the most typical Korean dish: Kimchi Jjigae (김치찌개). There are thousands of places where you can get this dish, but lately, we discovered a real cozy place in Insadong, where you have to sit on the floor, but the homelike ambiance makes up for that somewhat uncomfortable position for most Westerners. Insadong is often crowded with tourists, and restaurants there normally have the reputation of being tourist traps: Expensive and not good.

But in that small cozy restaurant called Ddeuraraechae (뜰아래채), which we haven’t found in any travel guide so far, you get an amazing deal for your money: For just KRW 5’000 per person, you get a Kimchi Jjigae, Bulgogi or any typical Korean dish with meat and loads of delicious side dishes including an egg soufflé (계란찜) in a hot pot. We were even served crispy rice soup (누룽지) in the end. We suppose that the location of the restaurant, which is way back in a small side street, is not found easily by many tourists.
Directions to get there: If you stroll on Insadong main street in direction of Anguk station, you will find on the right side the Insa Art Plaza (인사아트프라자), which is a big grey building you cannot miss. There, turn right into the small side street, and turn right once more when you see the sign with the green tree. The restaurant is in that small dead-end street.
Check out this link for more information (in Korean only).