Korean in South Korea - 681 Restaurant Picks | Page 16

Meals here split between soups and goldongban, and on the soup side there is deulkkae-beoseot-tang, mushroom soup thick…

In the nurungji samgyetang, a broad sheet of browned scorched rice covers a whole bone-in chicken; eat the exposed edge…

Fish goes into a very hot oven, so there is a short wait after ordering, but the mackerel, Spanish mackerel and Atka ma…

Barley rice cooked with some white rice goes into a bowl with seasoned greens, gets mixed with sesame oil and gochujang…

The sundae gopchang jeongol, a hot pot of blood sausage and beef intestines, comes heaped with sausage, tripe and offal…

Nobody has modernized this old farmhouse: the screen door at the entrance and the front yard look much as they always h…

A former Korea Express office built in 1941 survives as a registered national cultural heritage building, and it now ho…

Arrive around lunchtime and the usual routine is for one person to hop out and grab a number at the counter while the o…

One tray of the bapdoduk set (literally 'rice thief') holds soy-marinated crab, abalone, salmon and shrimp together. Th…

Seoul-style sundaeguk arrives bubbling in an earthenware bowl, its broth milky and creamy; a spoonful tasted before the…

Haemul maeun donkkaseu starts with a wide, thick cutlet fried to order, then smothers it in a gochujang sauce full of s…

Two butterfish, each bigger than a rice paddle, are braised with radish, tofu and zucchini in a savory sauce for byeong…

Gakjaegi is Jeju dialect for horse mackerel, and gakjaegiguk simmers big bone-in chunks of it with napa cabbage in a do…

Gopchang sundubu, soft tofu stew loaded with beef tripe in a thick, nutty broth, turns out milder than its red color su…

Deulkkae beoseot-tang, mushrooms in a nutty perilla-seed broth, tastes like something usually made at home, and the bow…

Right behind Yatap Bus Terminal, it suits a bowl of sundubu before catching a bus. Food comes out fast, and ordering to…

The horse-meat course runs from sashimi and yukhoe through grilled cuts, braised meat, ribs and gomtang, ending with a…

Daegu-style yukgaejang, a spicy beef soup loaded with green onion and radish, comes to the table still boiling in a lar…

The name suggests fish, but what lands on the table is tender boiled pork suyuk and sweet-spicy bibim makguksu. On week…

Seasonal wild greens brought from Jirisan cover the table in the Jirisan sannamul jeongsik, the set meal the restaurant…

At the start, staff grill the meat over charcoal and cut it off the bone for you. Pork galbi and beef udae-galbi (large…

Yukhoe bibimbap comes piled with seasoned raw beef and plenty of vegetables. At least one diner ordered a separate plat…

Frozen pollock goes onto a heated iron plate under a red chili sauce and keeps bubbling at the table. Unlike a pot-brai…

Mixed bulbaek, half spicy squid and half spicy pork, is stir-fried at the table in a bright red sauce that turns out mo…