Sanbon Chamchi Nara Tuna Course Review

Hi, this is Ijjingne. Today I went to Sanbon for a tuna course meal. I heard Chamchi Nara is a long-running tuna spot in Sanbon, and the friend I went with kept praising it, so we went right away.

Chamchi Nara is a one-minute walk from Sanbon Station Exit 3. It is very close and easy to find, and the blue sign stands out.

The first floor has counter seats, and the second floor has tables. We wanted to sit on the warm ondol floor, so we went up to the second floor. It was cold outside, and the heated floor felt so nice.

Jin, or silver, course for two Cheongha

We ordered the silver course and paired it with Cheongha, which goes so well with tuna.

The first setup was porridge and soup. They were warm, savory, and tasty. I wanted another serving but held back because more dishes were coming.

This was braised tuna with vegetable sticks. It was my first time trying braised tuna, and it was good. It had plenty of vegetables, including radish, carrot, and mushrooms. A fluffy steamed egg also came out, and steamed egg at sashimi restaurants always seems delicious.

Next was a tuna sashimi salad served with perilla leaves and flying fish roe. You wrap the tuna with the salad, and it was really good. The popping roe and fragrant perilla leaf worked so well together.

Then came sushi. Some course-meal sushi can feel lower in quality, but here the thickness and color looked different from the start. It almost felt like being at a proper sushi restaurant.

As we kept eating, they served a variety of tuna cuts. When the tuna came out, the owner personally came upstairs, explained each cut, and told us which parts taste better with oil sauce and which are better with wasabi soy sauce. He also said we could ask comfortably if we wanted more.

Because we visited early in the evening and seemed to be the first guests, it felt like they took extra care of us. Even tuna head meat came out, so the selection was really varied.

This was the mero head grill that they said they started serving this year. I already like grilled mero, and this was incredibly savory. It was browned beautifully, soft, rich, and hard to stop eating.

As we were finishing the tuna, hangover soup and tempura came out. The soup had a clear broth but was still refreshing and spicy, exactly my style. I ate a lot of the bean sprouts.

The tempura included shrimp, sweet potato, and perilla leaf. The batter was very crisp and tasty. I was getting full by then and left a little, but I really did not want to.

The hangover soup they served for recovery was so good that it somehow made me keep drinking.

Even the water was clean, clear hovenia water, and we each had one bottle of Cheongha. Water matters when drinking, and this place was excellent. I have no reason not to return to Chamchi Nara; from now on, this is where I want tuna in Sanbon.

The final dish was flying fish roe maki. It looked cute, so I took a photo.

Fold the top into a triangle and eat it in one bite. The maki was good too, which made the whole course even more satisfying. I would absolutely revisit this tuna course meal. Hashtags: #SanbonRestaurant #SanbonStationRestaurant #SanbonTuna #SanbonTunaRestaurant #SanbonSashimi #GunpoSashimi #GunpoTuna #SanbonCourseMeal