A Delicious Affair: Squirrel Town Mook House

My grandma, Mom, and I took a taxi to a restaurant called "Squirrel Town Mook House" in Ilsan, a suburb of Seoul. Mook, or Korean gelatin, is a well-being, healthy traditional Korean food. The restaurant specializes in acorn mook, and we ordered the special course menu featuring samplings of many different entrees incorporating mook.

Both the interior and the exterior of the restaurant was homey and camp-like.
Squirrel Town is on the first floor, whereas the second floor of the wood cabin is an Italian restaurant.

We ordered the special course menu. It's the best deal at only $10 and we got to
sample all the different entrees made of mook.

Sweet pumpkin soup. I wish it was sweeter.

The first mook dish I tried. It's a buckwheat mook. I liked the salty seaweed on top because it added flavor to an otherwise flavorless mook.

Acorn mooksabal. Pieces of acorn mook was in cool broth with kimchi, ccumber, and carrots. Great summer food.

Sweet and sour mook. A twist from sweet and sour pork. I only had one piece since I'm not a big fan of fried stuff. The sauce was too sweet.

Smoked duck. Yup, you guessed it right. Didn't try.

Mook pancake. Another dish I didn't try because it was too greasy.

Mook noodle. It was too spicy.

Mook bibimbop. This was probably my favorite dish. It's a traditional Korean entree with rice and many different vegetables. Too bad I was full by this came out and couldn't eat it much.

Mook sujaebee. According to Mom, sujaebee (traditionally made of pieces of flour) was a cheap dish for the poor in the past. I liked the stew, but not the mook pieces themselves because it lacked flavors.

Mook bread for dessert.

After our full course meal, I was satiated but felt healthy as well. One word of caution is that mook, being as healthy as it is, can be flavorless. I would recommend this restaurant, and mook in general, because it's atypical and unlike other dishes you eat at home.