Gangnam at Carousel
Tucked into a shopping-centre corner in Perth's south-east, this Cannington room does Korean barbecue the interactive way, a grill set into the table and the cooking, in part, handed to you. Around that centrepiece runs a broad, generous menu of the dishes that define casual Korean eating: kimchi soup arriving with a crisp savoury pancake, bibimbap, bulgogi, fried chicken, tteokbokki in its sweet-hot sauce, jeon, a molten cheese buldak and cold noodles for the heat. It is pitched squarely at affordability and volume, food described as nutritious, delicious and easy on the wallet, and welcomes a mixed crowd, from students to families, with vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free choices marked through the list. The mood is unpretentious and loud in the best way, a place organised around eating, drinking and laughing rather than any pretence of fine dining, and dessert leans into the fun with bingsu, the shaved-milk ice built for sharing. Open through the day and into the evening seven days a week, it functions as a reliable neighbourhood anchor for its part of the city, the kind of everyday Korean table you return to for the sizzle of the grill and the ritual of cooking your own.