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W Seoul-Walkerhill is promoting a unique oyster festival at its restaurants Jan. 12-25.

Kitchen and Namu present various selections such as lemon and Tabasco with fresh jumbo oyster, New England baked oysters with spinach and cheese, crisp polenta fried oysters with pork belly, and more. Sake flavored steamed jumbo oyster, sea urchin, soy-mirin sauce and oyster and clear seaweed soup will also be on offer. The oyster set cost from 20,000 won to 27,000 won.

For reservations, call Kitchen at (02) 2022-0111 or Namu at (02) 2022-0222.

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Shunmi, a stylish Japanese restaurant, introduces its annual winter delicacy, ``Gourmet Fugu.'' ``Fugu'' is the Japanese word for ``pufferfish.''

The restaurant's fugu course menu features an appetizer, pufferfish sashimi, deep-fried pufferfish, pufferfish with vegetables in a hot pot, pickled pufferfish skin, pufferfish porridge and dessert and costs 170,000 won.

A la carte dishes such as pufferfish sashimi (130,000 won), pufferfish chirinabe (70,000 won), vinegared pufferfish skin (25,000 won) and pufferfish hire sake (25,000 won) are also available. The special fugu dishes are available through the end of February.

For more information and reservation, call (02) 531-6477.