Footprints Recruiting

Sure, we’ve all been down to our last 5,000 Won - and with a hankering for a bite to eat.

Take heart - there are places where you can grab a hearty meal to tide you over for that amount. Short of splitting the cost with friends, ordering a satisfying meal alone can often be costly.

Sometimes, there are days when 2,000 KRW is a small fortune at hand. Don’t fear starvation - you can ‘fine dine’ even on a sliver of money. Have you got an Outback near you? If you want something to tide you for an hour or two until you get home--then head on over there. For 2,000 Won, you can grab two Bushman bread and ask for butter to go with it! For me, it's sheer love for these lightly sweet baked morsels back in the States. At the Bundang Outback on Migeum station, exit 6, I’d bought 2 loaves at 1,000 Won each, asked for two pats of butter, and Kelly, the manager on duty, threw in 4 extra pats on the house!

While it is far from dining out in the traditional sense of the word - StoryWay, a 7-Eleven-style snack kiosk scattered about at least throughout Seoul and its suburbs, features bargains you can always afford - and wolf down, too - such as waffles, eggs, and a Korean street vendor specialty known as a gaeran-tosteu - scrambled eggs drizzled with Ottogi syrup, surrounded by cinnamon sugar-dusted toasted white bread - for 4,000 KRW.

If that isn’t enough, head over to a Han Sot - a fast food-type sit-down place (you can find one almost ANYWHERE in Seoul), where you can fill yourself up for at least half a day. I went to one with a friend and his daughter near Gangnam station and for 4,500 W I bought something of a Korean penne pasta dish similar to Italian - save that the sauce was spicy! He’d ordered a sandwich, breadsticks, and a soda there at 7,500. Don’t expect top cuisine there, but expect food that goes down well - and agrees with your wallet.

Have you found another way to fill up your stomach and save money for 5,000 Won or less? Send them to us for review-with any helpful tips or recommendations!

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