Dallat, Sinsa-dong: A Tower of Pork Bones and the Thai Spot to Hit Near Garosu-gil

Dallat (ตลาด) means "market" in Thai.

Know the name and the interior makes sense. Purple neon, stainless-steel tables, folding chairs, tin signs on the walls. It feels like sitting in the middle of a Bangkok night market. And before long, a tower goes up on your table.

A 30-second glossary

• Leng saap (เล้งแซ่บ) — a Bangkok-style dish of pork backbones simmered until tender, served in a clear broth and buried under a spicy, sour sauce of green chili, garlic, lime and cilantro.
• Pad kaprao — a spicy Thai basil stir-fry, often served over rice with a fried egg on top. In Korean it goes by 바질볶음 (bajil bokkeum), "basil stir-fry."
• Khao kha moo — braised pork leg over rice. Dallat's menu lists it as 족발 덮밥 (jokbal deopbap), after Korea's own braised pork trotters.
• Garosu-gil & Apgujeong Rodeo — two trendy shopping and café streets around Sinsa-dong, close enough to walk between.

Teleported to a Bangkok night market

The restaurant is on the second floor, and from the lighting to the props, it's a Thai market moved over wholesale. On the walls: a "Travel to Thailand" tin sign painted with a Thai guardian deity, a Thai-language whisky sign, and a red car door. That's why 477 people on Naver picked the keyword that reads, roughly, "great interior."

Tonight's tower: leng saap

Leng saap is pork backbone simmered until tender, set in a clear broth and drowned in a sauce of green chili, garlic, lime and cilantro. It's a Bangkok-style dish, and Dallat's version arrives with the bones stacked high like a tower. The moment it hits the table, every phone comes out.

The meat tucked between the bones slides right off at the touch of a chopstick. The sour, spicy sauce cuts cleanly through the rich meat, and the broth underneath gets more refreshing the more you sip. It's ₩35,000, but the portion is huge, so think of it as a main to share between two or three people.

The basics are solid, too

The pad thai is loaded with plump shrimp and bean sprouts, with crushed peanuts and lime on the side. Squeeze the lime, mix in the peanuts, and it lands right on that sour-sweet-nutty balance. The basil stir-fry rice comes with a crispy-edged fried egg over white rice. Break the yolk into the spicy basil stir-fry and mix it all up: exactly what you want when you need some rice between bites of leng saap.

What other diners say

Here are the numbers from Naver Place (Korea's go-to map and review app) as of September 2026, with the keyword labels translated, roughly. Even among the 10 restaurants in this series, it's one of the standout report cards.

• ⭐ Visitor rating 4.89 · 1,710 reviews
• 🥇 "The food is delicious" 1,579 people
• 🇹🇭 "Close to the real local taste" 690
• 🍜 "Fresh ingredients" 669, "Generous portions" 579
• 📝 Most-mentioned topics in reviews: taste (1,211) > satisfaction (683) > service (124)

The key detail: "close to the real local taste" is the second most-picked keyword. For a Thai restaurant, there's no clearer compliment than that.

Menu and prices

Menu	Price
Leng saap (signature)	₩35,000
Tom yum goong (signature)	₩22,000
Original pad thai (signature)	₩13,000
Khao kha moo — braised pork leg over rice (signature)	₩13,000
Beef shank rice noodle soup (signature)	₩12,000
Goong pad pong curry — shrimp stir-fried in curry	₩25,000
Gai yang — Thai grilled chicken	₩24,000
Kor moo yang — Thai grilled pork jowl	₩22,000
Makchang basil stir-fry (makchang pad kaprao moo saap)	₩18,000
Tom yum seafood rice noodle soup	₩14,000

How to order (even with zero Korean)

• The Thai dish names are simply written in Korean letters, so they sound close to the Thai. Point at 랭쌥 on the menu, or say "Raengssaep hana juseyo" — one leng saap, please.
• Adding pad thai? "Pat-tai do juseyo" — pad thai too, please.
• The leng saap is sized for two or three people, so share it and add a rice or noodle dish or two on the side.
• Reservations are available, and it's closed on Mondays.

Visit info

📍 Dallat (딸랏) · 2F, 22 Apgujeong-ro 50-gil, Gangnam-gu, Seoul (Sinsa-dong)

• 🚇 Getting there: Apgujeong Rodeo Station (Suin-Bundang Line), Exit 6, about a 5-minute walk (roughly 330 m). Easy to fit into a walk from Garosu-gil over to Rodeo.
• 🕐 Hours: Tue–Sun 11:30–22:00 (last order 21:30), closed Mondays
• 💰 Price: pad thai and rice noodles ₩12,000–14,000, leng saap ₩35,000
• ✅ Good to know: reservations, takeout, group seating, high chairs, Wi-Fi, mobile payments
• 🗺️ Maps: Google Maps · Naver Map — Google Maps finds the spot and handles subway routes in Korea, but for walking directions Naver Map is more reliable.

Jayden's verdict

In the middle of Sinsa-dong, I toppled a Bangkok night-market tower of bones. If you're headed to Garosu-gil, topple this one at least once.

• Leng saap: ★★★★★
• Local feel: ★★★★★
• Coming back? Yes. Tom yum goong and khao kha moo are next.