Samgyetang (삼계탕): Eating Korean Ginseng Chicken Soup in Seoul, Korea

Come join us for a late lunch in Seoul, Korea as we have eat traditional Korean food that is know for its health benefits. The Korean dish we're trying today is Samgyetang (삼계탕 - 蔘鷄湯) a kind of Korean ginseng chicken soup that ingredients such as garlic, sticky rice and jujubes. To mix things up we also order Samgyetang Juk porridge (삼계탕죽). In total this healthy Korean fast cost 13,000 per person and we left feeling very full and satisfied. We were even sweating! So if you get a chance try this dish :) Alternate spellings of Samgyetang include: (gyesamtang - 계삼탕 - 鷄蔘湯) GEAR WE USE Olympus OM-D E-M5 II: http://amzn.to/1OchS7t Canon G7X: http://amzn.to/1YdjsYX Olympus 14-150mm II Lens: http://amzn.to/1Y79zeM Rode Video Mic GO: http://amzn.to/1WDKtVM Joby Gorilla Pod: http://amzn.to/1PgoY5F SanDisk 16GB Extreme Pro: http://amzn.to/25KEErs SOCIAL MEDIA & TRAVEL BLOGS AUDREY: blog: http://thatbackpacker.com/ instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatbackpacker/ facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thatbackpacker twitter: https://twitter.com/ThatBackpacker SAMUEL: blog: http://nomadicsamuel.com/ facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nomadicsamuel twitter: https://twitter.com/NomadicSamuel instragram: https://www.instagram.com/nomadicsamuel/ Samgyetang (삼계탕): Eating Korean Ginseng Chicken Soup in Seoul, Korea: Lunchtime in Seoul (서울)! We are having lunch today at like four in the afternoon because we've been out sightseeing. So we are starving. So so hungry. And today we're going to be having Samgyetang (삼계탕). Did I pronounce that right? Samgyetang (蔘鷄湯). Yep. There you go. And this is a Ginseng Chicken soup and Sam has ordered a variation of the dish so he's having Ginseng Chicken Porridge (삼계탕죽). So because this restaurant specializes in Korean Ginseng chicken. There is actually five different ones you can choose from so let's take a look at the menu. And you have the one we ordered is supposed to be good for you health. Now there is another one that is good for beauty. For beauty. How come you didn't order that one Sam? And then there is of course the Juk (죽) one. The Korean porridge version of that. And I've never had Samgyetang porridge (삼계탕죽). So the coolest thing just happened with our meal. Like we were planning on ordering the Ginseng Wine which is called Insamju (인삼주) and she just brought it over as service. For free. So we have some Ginseng wine to compliment the Ginseng soup and Ginseng porridge. Let's have a taste. So let's try that Insamju (인삼주). It doesn't have a strong smell. Does it taste like medicine? Or is it pleasant? Let me have another sip. It really tastes like nothing. Nothing else I've ever had before. I'm trying to think of a comparable. It is a little bit fruity, little bit sweet. It doesn't have a strong alcohol taste. So my Samgyetang (삼계탕) has arrived. Check it out. So since it is for one person you obviously don't get the whole chicken but if you were ordering a family sized one the chicken would actually be stuffed with rice and garlic so I have a smaller portion. Maybe not much though. Sometimes it comes with jujubes as well. I know that it is considered one of the healthier dishes that you can have in Korea. Oh. It has a lot of health benefits associated with it. And look at this there is like a teabag but I think it is probably filled with spices. That is nice. How do you like that? It has a lot of spices. I mean lots of new spices for me. I think I got some of the chicken breast here. So I'm just going to break it apart. The chicken still has the skin on it and bones. Yeah. It is a good meal. I like it. Chicken nice and tender? Yeah. So Sam here ready to dig in? Yeah, let's check out what the Juk (죽) form looks like. Okay so you can see that it is a lot thicker than mine. Yeah, it is very thick. So I'm going to give that a good stir. Yeah. And you can tell that the chicken has already been de-boned. I can of like that. It is less work for you. Yeah, less work. So let's try that. It looks really hot. Piping hot. I'm going to blow on it. Don't burn yourself. I also noticed yours had um black sesame seeds on top. Oh, wow. That is delicious. Yeah? Yeah. It has got like it is such a thick juk (죽) like broth. The porridge-y broth and then I really taste a lot of the tastes like the shredded chicken and then I think I had something like pine nut in there. But anyways on to price point. So it was both of these dishes were thirteen thousand Won (원). So in total twenty six thousand. ₩26,000 KRW. Which is about roughly twenty two, twenty one US dollars. So it was good value. I mean we're leaving full. It is not as cheap as some of the other Korean soups or stews but when you consider the ingredients involved - the ginseng, the chicken and whatnot you can see why it is is a bit more expensive. But definitely something we highly recommend. Music in this video courtesy of Audio Network