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CheongDamChae's Korean menu in Telok Ayer with prices: naengsam grilled on cast iron, dishes with flavours you'll only find here, and comforting soups served in hot earthenware pots.
In Korea, people say a plate of grilled pork belly washes the dust out of your throat. With the haze hanging over Singapore, here's that old Korean habit at CheongDamChae in Telok Ayer.
At CheongDamChae in Telok Ayer, sundubu, doenjang and kimchi jjigae are each cooked in their own earthenware pot. Nothing fancy, just everyday Korean food that tastes like home.
At CheongDamChae in Telok Ayer, more of our guests are Korean than not. They come for naengsam (pork belly), sliced 4.5mm and grilled on cast iron. 1kg is $68.80++.
Known for naengsam, CheongDamChae in Telok Ayer also does proper Korean beef BBQ, with a smoke hood at every table so you don't head back to the office smelling like the grill.
Love naengsam but hate the oil splatter at home? Come by CheongDamChae in Telok Ayer and enjoy it with homestyle banchan, no scrubbing the stove after.
Pork is not the only thing on the iron at Cheongdamchae. Kimchi and bean sprouts cook along the edge of the plate, in the fat running off the belly.
Naengsam at Cheongdamchae is Duroc pork belly cut to 4.5mm, frozen, and laid straight onto cast iron with no foil underneath. Here is everything that reaches the table with a 1kg order, before a single slice is cooked.
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