Jokbal in South Korea - 14 Restaurant Picks

A black color scheme makes this basement room in Nonhyeon-dong feel closer to a bar than a typical jokbal (braised pork…

One platter of the half-and-half king jokbal (braised pig's trotters) holds plain trotters beside red, charcoal-grilled…

The jaengban makguksu, tray-tossed buckwheat noodles that come free, is big enough to pass for a menu item. Bossam arri…

Jokbal, braised pig's trotters, comes as a full platter or a half portion, and the fat stays in the background so the c…

Pork trotters arrive warm the moment you order, blanketed in sesame seeds, with chewy skin and moist meat. The shop has…

Instead of the usual lettuce wraps, the trotters come with a large plate of salad and a bowl of kimchi kalguksu, knife-…

Every jokbal order brings along a pot of sundae-guk (blood sausage soup), a plate of sundae and market-style tteokbokki…

Fresh domestic pig's trotters are boiled and sold on the same day, and front and rear legs are ordered separately. The…

Thick sundae sausage, offal and thin slices of head meat fill the earthen bowls of sundaeguk at this Huam-ro restaurant…

A hot bowl of rice-cake and dumpling soup lands on the table before the pork arrives. The ohyang jokbal, five-spice bra…

Even the lean parts of the plain jokbal (braised pig's trotters) come out soft enough to recall steamed egg custard. Th…

Signs in the Jangchung-dong jokbal alley look much alike, so match the name with the street number, 174-6 Jangchungdan-…

Herb-aged pork trotters (jokbal, boiled and sliced for sharing) come with chewy skin, tender meat and only a faint herb…

Boiled pork trotters are coated in a sweet-hot sauce and charred again on a wire grill until the glaze sticks and picks…