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Jenna Choo named her cake shop after the 1989 Ghibli Studio film Kiki’s Delivery Service.

This hidden cake shop delivers cosy Ghibli vibes (and it’s open after 3pm)

Layered fruit cream cake, milky chocolate cake and four-tiered honey cake are among the Korean- and Japanese-inspired creations at Kiki Dessert.

  • Lenny Ann Low
Sogumm owners Changhoon and Suhyun Kim.
14.5/20

Our critic has been patiently waiting to tell you all about this lunch-only restaurant

From the get-go, Sogumm has been home to some of the most interesting, thoughtful cooking in town.

  • Besha Rodell
Ginseng chicken at Dae Jang Kum.

A Korean barbecue joint serving hard-to-find cuts of beef

Don’t skip the yukhoe, either, which sees Korea’s own beef tartare levelled up with a crisp puffed rice cracker for texture.

  • David Matthews
Hongdae Pocha.
14/20

This buzzy Korean barbecue spot has one of the best beef selections around

Chippendale’s new K-BBQ joint is great for groups looking for a grill-your-own meat blowout.

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An array of dishes at GetBawi.

This Eastwood restaurant is the place to go for hoe (Korean raw seafood)

The specialty may be raw seafood, but there are plenty of other highlights from spicy blue swimmer crab hotpot to yukhoe tang tang.

  • David Matthews
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Siroo’s tteok are characteristically chewy.

A specialty Korean rice cake shop serving songpyeon and injeolmi

Made each morning by owner Changhyun Lee, Siroo’s tteok are characteristically chewy, with the injeolmi – made with sticky rice and finished with roasted soybean powder – a signature.

  • David Matthews
Hwagae Banchan’s specialty is the array of side dishes – banchan – that accompany a Korean meal.

Get Korean BBQ ready at this banchan shop in Eastwood

Hwagae Banchan’s specialty is the array of side dishes, from spring onion kimchi to braised lotus root, that accompany a Korean meal.

  • David Matthews
Yukhoe (raw beef) with seaweed, sprouts, rice and sides.
13.5/20

Ondo

Thoughtful meals backed by gentle service.

Mansae’s Korean fried chicken.
14.5/20

Mansae

For smokeless grilling and high-resolution marbled fat.

A typical lunch set at Mum’s Lunch.
13/20

Mum’s Lunch

A lunch-only exemplar of family-run comfort cooking.