Travel blog
On 11 May 2019, Café Hae ah opened its doors in Oberursel. It is located in the Rosengärtchen shopping carree (next to the Korean supermarket Handok).
It is not only a café, but also more like a bistro serving a few lunches. We had Steak Pasta and Jeyuk Bokkeum (제육볶음), which is spicy fried pork.
Both dishes were really good, but the Steak Pasta really took me in. I’ll be back for more soon.
Service in Korea usually has to be super fast. Well, this one isn’t… yet.
My husband and I have our usual Friday Night date at Pomodori Pizzeria in our neighborhood. It is so convenient, because we can walk there, we always get a table (due to mostly delivery service), and we can bring our own bottle of wine as well.
Here is a small selection of what we have enjoyed over the last few months.
Calamari & Spaghetti aglio e olio
Caesar Salad
Antipasti
I also like their Insalata Greca, Lasagna, or Pizza Margarita.
To see more from them, visit the website Pomodori Pizzeria.
If you are in Oberursel or vicinity, you can also order in English from here: Lieferando Delivery Service
Some of you might know I love Korean food. If I ever had to choose my Henkersmahlzeit (last meal), it would be Korean.
My favorite Korean restaurant is Seoul Restaurant at Hohemarkstraße 194 in 61440 Oberursel. It serves very good food, is in walking distance, and I find the service excellent. Being Korean style service, the lunch menu usually gets served within ten minutes. Or even less.
Some of the Mittagstisch (lunch specials) prices have gone up from euro 10 to euro 12, but you do get a lot for your money.
My favorite dishes are red and spicy:
Kimsambok (listed as gebr. Kimchi Schweinefleisch),
Yugkejang (listed as: scharf Rindstreifensuppe) and
Kimchijikae (Kimchi Suppe)
The lunch menu was initially only in Korean, but now they’ve added German (which needs improvement), and Chinese.
This photo shows Kimsambok in the foreground and a Fried Rice Omelette with seafood (listed as gebr. Meeresfrüchte), which is the big yellowish dish on the left. All lunches come with side dishes. The photo was taken a while back, since then even the plates have changed.
Koreans generally do not tip the service staff, but I always do. I used to be a waitress in my younger days, and so I do appreciate their hard work. And they do smile, when they see me.
A couple of weeks ago before our son Thomas flew back to England to resume his studies, we went to Sabai Sabai * Thai Restaurant for dinner. It was our son’s idea as he had just returned from a two-month teaching stint in Thailand and wanted to compare Thai food made for the German palate.
He now knew quite a bit about Thai food and so this seemed the obvious choice for our farewell dinner in style. The restaurant itself used to be the German guesthouse Gaststätte Stadt Strassburg, which closed its doors around 2007.
The interior looks spacious when you first come in. There’s the obligatory portrait of the Thai monarch on the wall with two big elephants underneath. The window sills are lined with orchids and other Thai decor. The ambiance is pleasing.
But for four people and four dishes as well as beverages, the tables are a bit small. We had to do a bit of moving plates and glasses throughout dinner.
Service was excellent. We enjoyed listening to Thomas’s small talk carried out in Thai with the waitress (yes, they have an authentic staff) and then ordered his recommendations.
I chose the Pat Thai which was excellent. The crumbly topping is roasted peanuts. Delicious!
Pat Thai
Another dish we ordered was Gung Sabai Thai, a house specialty with prawns.
Gung Sabai Thai
Gaeng Kiew Wan is a green curry, and duck was my husband’s meat choice.
Gaeng Kiew Wan
* The meaning of ‘sabai sabai’: very calm/tranquil/easygoing/comfortable
In Thai, one of the many ways of making a meaning similar to ‘very’ in English is to double the word (this might also apply to a few other Asian languages). This is called reduplication of adjectives, e.g ‘dee dee’ means very good and ‘arroy arroy’ means very delicious, etc.
Sabai Sabai Restaurant website: http://www.sabai-thai-cuisine.de/
Over the past two years, I have become a regular customer at Seoul Restaurant in Oberursel. Being a creature of habit and dedicated kimchi lover, I usually order the same food: Kimsambok, made of kimchi, slices of pork belly, and chunks of tofu, fried together.
The waitress does not have to hand us the menu anymore. With one look at me, she asks, “Zwei Mal Kimsambok?” and all I have to do is nod.
Their lunch menu consists of various dishes to choose from, among them seafood fried rice, some Korean stews, noodle dishes, etc.
Lunch menu Seoul Restaurant in Oberursel
Lunch is euro 10, which includes tea, side dishes, and dessert (often a cinnamon beverage) and is served between 12:00 – 15:00 from Tuesday to Saturday.
Their lunch menu for Sunday is LA Galbi which is euro 15. We have not tried this yet, but it is safe to assume it comes with tea, the traditional sides dishes and dessert as well.
Here is my favorite food: Kimsambok
Kimsambok
This serving (see photo) is for one person, with the main dish in the foreground. If you order a second lunch special, the number of side dishes remain the same. The second main dish was on its way.
Their regular dinner menu also includes these lunch dishes. If you don’t read Korean, use the regular Speisekarte (menu) and ask the waitress which of the Lunch specials are included (in German, I believe).
In the summer time, you can also use the terrace. Simple furniture, but you have a nice view onto the forest.
Address: Hohemarkstrasse 194 in 61440 Oberursel
Tel: 06171 – 50 82 448
The restaurant is situated right next to the forest, in walking distance to Frankfurt International School, and is easy to reach by U Bahn as well.
Just take the U-3 (direction Hohemark) to its final stop. From there it is a one-minute walk.
Around Oberursel, we have five Korean restaurants, and this one is my favorite one as their food is very good, lunch prices are more than reasonable, and it is in walking distance from my home.
My name is Maria Shipley. I live in Oberursel, Germany with my husband, son and daughter. I … Read more
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