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Ondo

All-day dining scales new heights.

Yukhoe (raw beef) with seaweed, sprouts.
1 / 9Yukhoe (raw beef) with seaweed, sprouts.Bonnie Savage
Inside Ondo.
2 / 9Inside Ondo.Supplied
Soy-braised wombok, potato and chilli.
3 / 9Soy-braised wombok, potato and chilli.Bonnie Savage
Yukhoe (raw beef) with seaweed wrapping.
4 / 9Yukhoe (raw beef) with seaweed wrapping.Bonnie Savage
Outside the Little Lonsdale Street restaurant.
5 / 9Outside the Little Lonsdale Street restaurant.Simon Schluter
Saeseonjjim (fish dish).
6 / 9Saeseonjjim (fish dish). Simon Schluter
Dig into noodle dishes like makguksu.
7 / 9Dig into noodle dishes like makguksu.Simon Schluter
Manduguk (dumpling soup).
8 / 9Manduguk (dumpling soup).Simon Schluter
Black sesame latte.
9 / 9Black sesame latte.Paul Jeffers

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In this warm-toned timber space, home-style cooking is celebrated in hansik sets (hot dish, soup, rice) that easily shift from day to night. For lunch, yukhoe (raw beef and nashi pear) is served simply over rice.

At dinner, it’s dressed in a little seaweed straitjacket with a side of crunchy pickled onions. There are more delights across the menu. Soy-braised wombok, piled high like petticoats, is topped with minced potato chips and chilli. Deboned chicken wings kissed by charcoal burst with finely chopped pork. Perilla leaves are bountiful; use them to pick up charred pork neck and sticky ssamjang.

Flavour profiles of small-batch soju and cheongju rice wine are broken down in detail on the tidy menu to hold the hands of the uninitiated, complemented by razor-sharp recommendations from staff.

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