{"id":193,"date":"2019-03-04T15:32:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T15:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.themunchblog.com\/?p=193"},"modified":"2019-03-04T15:32:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T15:32:17","slug":"review-eatgoody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/munchblog.helpfulbloke.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/04\/review-eatgoody\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: EatGoody"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Serving up freshly-made, wallet-friendly Korean lunches just off Oxford Road, it\u2019s not surprising EatGoody has built up a cult following amongst both budget conscious students and fans of Korean cuisine. <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The restaurant \u2013 which styles itself as a \u2018Korean fusion caf\u00e9\u2019 \u2013 is tucked away by the Sugden sports centre, a short walk from the universities. It sits on the first floor, but on the day I visited the queue snaked down the narrow stairs and on to the street below, so it was hard to miss. The customers were mostly regulars \u2013 plenty of them Koreans themselves, which was a good sign \u2013 and everyone seemed to go for the daily special. At \u00a34 a plate, barely more than meal deal, you can see why. On Tuesday this was a curry with either vegetable dumplings or chicken, served over rice. I went for the dumplings and a kimchi salad (\u00a31), because you can\u2019t go to a Korean restaurant and at\u00a0not at least try the kimchi! The service was friendly, if a little frantic, but that\u2019s understandable considering the number of people eagerly waiting, and the food was made impressively fast. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Given how affordable it was I was expecting something fairly\nlight, but what I received was a hefty box of delicious smelling curry. It wasn\u2019t\nsimple food either \u2013 the curry sauce was rich and intensely savoury, with chunks\nof fried potato and plenty of dumplings. Despite being soaked in curry the dumplings\nremained perfectly crispy, offsetting the slightly stodgy rice well, and had a pleasant\nif not particularly flavourful vegetable filling. This felt like proper winter food,\nserved piping hot and designed to warm you up on freezing day (it frequently\ndrops to -10\u00b0C in Seoul at this time of year, unlike the balmy\nweather we\u2019ve been having). The kimchi salad was a very welcome addition \u2013 it\nhad a strong, sharp flavour that wasn\u2019t over-fermented, and cut through the heavy\nmain dish wonderfully. My only complaint is I wish there had been more of it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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EatGoody<\/em> is somewhere I\u2019ll certainly be returning to. For under a fiver you get a plate of Korean soul food so delicious and authentic that it\u2019s easy forget you\u2019re just metres away from Oxford Road. If you\u2019re in need of something to fuel you through an long afternoon of work or your last couple lectures, this is the place to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Go\u00a0if:<\/strong> You’ve had enough of dull sandwiches and overpriced meal deals, and want something a bit different for a weekday lunch.
Don’t\u00a0go\u00a0if:<\/strong> The idea of queuing for an unknown amount of time gives you heart palpitations, or if taking a chance on the special of the day terrifies you.
How\u00a0much:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a34 for the special, add kimchi for an extra \u00a31. <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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