Kankoku Shokudo - Korean
Okubo

Contributed by Asakawa Rio

Open evenings until 5 in the morning. No credit cards, no reservations.
Telephone: 3208-0209

Kankoku Shokudo can be found on Shokuan Dori in Okubo, on the left side of the street coming from the Shinjuku station of the Seibu Shinjuku line. Go straight towards Meiji Dori, and you will find it after the green sign of a a liquor shop called Big Discount Liquor Store. The food is very hot and very good. If you want to taste something particularly hot, order their crab sashimi. Kankoku Shokudo is not a place for the faint of heart: everybody is friendly, but nobody speaks English or Japanese, and the menu is in Korean and Japanese. But it is an interesting, homey izakaya where a good meal, including abundant drinks, will cost you just 2 - 3 thousand yen.

I put this restaurant in the Rare Cuisines section of my site because real Korean food is indeed rare. Normally "Korean food" here means Yakiniku ... Francesco