Taiwan has a wide variety of exotic cuisines, and for those who don’t have the time to travel abroad or for other reasons cannot taste authentic foreign flavors, exotic food is a great choice to satisfy cravings. But have you ever thought about fusion cuisine? In Kaohsiung, there’s a restaurant whose owner is a genuine Korean, who innovatively merges Korean and Italian dishes, making the usually common offerings much more unique…🤔

✅ Garlic Butter Salty Sauce Fried Chicken: The fried chicken is filled with salty flavors, with the chicken first fried and then coated in sauce. The outer skin doesn't become as soft as expected, but rather retains its crispiness, making it sweet and crunchy with each bite. Additionally, there are fried potato slices below, which have a great texture and remain crispy and delicious even when cold.

✅ Hamburger Steak Rice (318 NTD): The hamburger patty is made from beef and cheese, and its eye-catching appearance is also a popular Instagram food. Paired with red wine sauce, sesame leaves, cherry tomatoes, and a runny egg, it offers a rich depth of flavor. The sauce is mild and slightly sour, pairing cleverly with the sesame leaves. Cutting into the juicy hamburger reveals a rich gooey cheese inside, allowing each bite to deliver a perfect blend of flavors and textures. This dish is a favorite for many and is highly recommended.

✅ Korean Spicy Sauce Squid and Scallop Pasta: This dish stir-fries squid, scallops, zucchini, tomatoes, and onions with Korean spicy sauce, perfectly blending the spiciness of Korean spices with the sweet freshness of seafood. The noodle retains some texture, enhancing the overall taste and complexity.

✅ Peach Iced Tea: Full of the refreshing scent of peaches, not overly sweet, and very smooth to drink.

✅ Grapefruit Apple Sparkling Water: Made with grapefruit apple sauce mixed with sparkling water, the bubbles dance on the tongue, bringing a refreshing sensation.

✅ Korean Cheese Steamed Egg: A must-try signature item in the restaurant. The first bite offers a thick, creamy egg flavor, complemented by rich cheese that provides a delightful dual aroma and texture. Topped with a sprinkle of fish roe, it adds more vibrancy to the color.

✅ Classic Spinach Bacon Half-Done Egg: Made with handmade baked dough that is chewy and springy, paired with tender spinach, salty bacon, and a luscious half-done egg, resulting in a layered flavor experience. Even when cooled, the pizza remains delicious.

Both the Korean and Italian dishes in this restaurant are delicious, reflecting the owner’s commitment and attention to flavor. The most recommended dish is the “Hamburger Steak Rice,” which has a very rich taste profile, enhanced by the use of mixed vinegar for a refreshing touch. The dining environment is also excellent, with enough space between tables to ensure a comfortable experience. Additionally, this restaurant does not charge a service fee! Therefore, you need to serve your own water and get your utensils.

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A Korean-Italian restaurant that combines an industrial creative style, KATZ in Kaohsiung Cultural Center, has two branches in Kaohsiung. This time, we visited the one at the Cultural Center. The exterior decor is exactly my style, and the seating area is very spacious, filled with industrial-style furnishings that create a comfortable atmosphere.

We ordered a couple's set meal for two people 💰1294:

• Cheese steamed egg: Full of cheese paired with fluffy steamed eggs, it has a rich aroma.

• Crispy fried anchovies: Dipped in the yogurt sauce provided by the restaurant, it's sweet and tangy, very appetizing.

• Truffle sauce fried chicken (2 pieces): Light truffle flavor combined with crispy fried chicken, it also has a garlicky taste. Eating it with the crispy chips and chicken provides a delightful texture contrast.

• Busan chip sausage: The thin-crust pizza served with chips is quite unique.

• Kimchi garlic pork belly noodles: I love the seasoning of this dish. The sweet-sour sauce pairs superbly with the pasta. Even though it's kimchi, it's not very spicy, making it great for friends who don’t eat spicy food.

• Korean watermelon soda

• Korean yuzu sparkling water

In summary, I highly recommend this restaurant. The entire set meal was super filling and satisfying. They even kindly allowed us to take the leftover pizza home.

The Korean specialty restaurant 🇰🇷 is very different from the common Korean restaurants ❗️ and the owner is Korean ~ the meals are all based on local flavors, including kiln-baked pizza 😊

Although the fried chicken is chicken breast, it is very juicy ~ not spicy at all💯The truffle taste is on the light side, the sweet and spicy Korean red sauce is paired with crispy skin🤤The cheese steamed egg is soft and tender in the middle, the lava filling and the custard flavor, I like it Don’t miss the egg dishes👏👏

The spicy sauce squid and scallop noodles use wide noodles, the ingredients are very generous, and there are also garnishes of zucchini and cherry tomatoes❤️The slightly spicy taste is particularly appetizing👍🏻The crispy crust of the thin-crust pizza is paired with kimchi cheese pig, and it is delicious to eat hot I know how to pull strings, and the kimchi tastes authentic Korean😁

🔺Korean red sauce fried chicken $128
🔺Fried chicken with truffle sauce $148
🔺Cheese Steamed Egg$268
🔺Squid and scallop noodles with spicy sauce $348
🔺Korean kimchi cheese pig pizza $288
🔺Calpis Special Sparkling Water $98
🔺Sparkling water $98 (refillable)

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Recommendation index❤️❤️❤️❤️🤍(4/5 points)
I can feel that the chef prepares every meal carefully🥘The overall meal performance is very good👍🏻Especially the pasta, which subverts the general traditional Korean restaurants and perfectly combines Korean and Italian food😍