Korean in South Korea - 681 Restaurant Picks | Page 15

The 13-dish Jeju hanjeongsik comes with braised mackerel by default, but you can ask to swap it for braised hairtail (g…

Barley mixed with white rice comes in a wide bowl, and from the fifteen or so namul and side dishes on the table you ch…

Order the dongtae-jjim set for one and the table still fills with seaweed soup and a spread of side dishes. The gochuja…

Pot lids signed by celebrities line one wall, and kimchi jjigae comes in single-serving aluminum pots, each diner picki…

Each piece of tofu shows two colors because white and black soybeans go into the same batch. Sundubu-jjamppong is a pep…

Order a single bowl of yukhoe bibimbap and the table still fills up like a hanjeongsik spread. Beyond kimchi and pickle…

Garlic-heavy broth, thin and plentiful like a fish stew, sets this chicken dish apart from the thick, reduced dakbokkeu…

Medium-thick noodles are a Yesan specialty, and this gukbap house serves both of its soups, ox-head and beef, either wi…

The sundubu jeongol looks fiery red but carries little heat, and as it simmers the soft tofu soaks up sesame oil and tu…

Pork, boiled and sliced onto a wooden board, is the point here: Nohyeong-dong dombe gogi on its own, or kimchi dombe bo…

Somori-gukbap, beef-head soup with rice, lands between a clear broth and a milky one, clean enough that salt and pepper…

Despite its red color, the bibim makguksu is mild and lightly seasoned, with soft buckwheat noodles that break easily a…

The worn exterior is easy to walk past, but inside is a tidy dining room with a bar. Black-pork neck arrives pre-grille…

Inside an alley lined with dak-hanmari whole-chicken shops near Dongdaemun, this place grills fish instead. The saengse…

Mangchi, the Gangneung name for the gomu kkeokjeongi fish, goes into a spicy stew (mangchi maeuntang) that keeps bubbli…

In seodae hoe-muchim, thin strips of seodae, a small flatfish, are tossed with vegetables in a red sweet-and-sour dress…

The Korean set meal comes with gondre stone-pot rice, and lifting the lid releases the scent of the greens and the toas…

Instead of fruit, the self-serve bar offers sweet steamed cabbage, alongside kimchi and kkakdugi you refill as often as…

The gondre namul bap set, rice cooked with thistle greens, comes with soybean-paste stew and a large piece of grilled f…

For more than 50 years this spot inside Osan's Osaek Market has served dwaeji-meori gukbap, rice soup with pork head me…

Anchovy stew, raw anchovies in a tangy dressing and fried anchovies all land on one table in the fresh anchovy ssambap…

Mackerel stays on the yeontan briquette grill by the entrance throughout service, so each split fish reaches the table…

Grab a numbered stick at the entrance first. Even if the room looks empty, food comes out in the order the sticks were…

Ham, sausages, cheese, broad glass noodles and rice cakes fill the budae jjigae pot with Korean beef bone stock, and th…