Soraksan

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Soraksans

  • February 21, 2009
  • Rated 4 of 5 by michaelhudson from Jarrow, Tyne & Wear, United Kingdom
Soraksans

Named after one of Korea's best known national parks, Soraksans is Riga's only Korean restaurant.

Although it's in the Old Town (near the castle and Dome Square on Miesnieku iela), Soraksan's prices are not as high as you'd expect. Open from noon to just before midnight, set lunches start at under four lats and evening mains like bibimbap and barbecued beef average around five or six lats. There are cheaper options such as Pokumbap (a filling dish of fried rice and vegetables) for two lats fifty, lots of gimbap (Korean sushi) and seafood, and a small number of vegetarian options. The Korean national food, the ubiquitous kimchi, is available as a stew or as a side dish (one lat). The food was more authentic tasting than I expected, the kimchi just the right mix of salty, sweet and sour and the bibimbap a barely manageable portion of rice and tender vegetables served with dollops of hot pepper sauce.

The decor is as impressive as the cuisine, the walls decorated in folk handicrafts and hangul, although the tables are a little cramped if you're in a group any bigger than four or five (a private room for ten is available if you don't mind sitting Korean style on the floor).

The only downside of Soraksans was the service, which was friendly but painfully slow. There were only two other parties there when we visited on a Friday night but we waited twenty minutes between getting the menus (in English and Latvian) and placing our orders, and more than the same again before the food arrived. If you're not in a hurry and have had enough of Lido, Soraksans is a great choice.

From journal Going Out In Riga

Soraksan

  • January 2, 2003
  • Rated 3 of 5 by raycarstairs from Glasgow, Scotland
Not having sampled Korean cuisine before, we decided it was time to try something new. On the whole, we were surprised how much we enjoyed the experience.

The restaurant itself is very small and not much to look at (in my experience, though, this is often a good sign when seeking out Oriental cuisine). Despite the plastic tablecloths, the food was fantastically flavorful and spiced with extremely fresh-tasting ingredients . . . sigh of relief . . . Korean food has a somewhat dubious reputation in the Western world, but this was a good introduction to the cuisine.

Our wonderful meal was followed by some rather intriguing herbal 'his and her's' tea--my wife's tea purportedly relieved 'women's problems' while mine was apparently meant to have a stimulating effect! Yee-ha!

From journal Riga - 'Gateway to Latvia'

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