Korean in South Korea - 681 Restaurant Picks | Page 22

Acorn goes into the noodles here, giving them a nutty aroma and a springy bite, and the sauce stays mild rather than sw…

Before moving down to its current site a few years ago, this sanchae restaurant spent years on the slopes of Jeombongsa…

Whole pine nuts are set into the tofu, so every soft slice has nutty little bites in it. The tofu pan-fried in perilla…

Meals are eaten inside a natural cave, where slow ventilation means clothes pick up cooking smells. Duck bulgogi arrive…

Shiitake mushrooms scent the broth of the house hot pot, which can be built up with Korean beef or gopchang (beef intes…

Some bowls come out with chili flakes stirred in for a spicy edge, so if you want the clear version of daegutang, say s…

Each spring the kitchen buys roe-filled female blue crabs landed at Anheung Port in Taean and flash-freezes them, so th…

Fresh monkfish keeps the flesh firm, and every bean sprout has had its head pinched off so it stays crisp to the end. T…

There are so many side dishes that rice goes down without a main, and the fried enoki mushrooms stand out among them. F…

Kongbiji, a thick soybean-pulp stew, sits at a self-serve station free of charge, so refills are up to you. The tofu se…

Most of the floor is shoe-off seating on cushions with only a few chair tables, and diners with bad knees sometimes wai…

Hanwoo beef tendon, simmered until soft but still springy, goes into hot pots and onto plates as suyuk. The hot pot com…

Barley rice bibimbap and terlegi anchor the menu here. The barley rice arrives spread thin in a wide bowl with an assor…

Pork and bracken fern are simmered until they lose their shape, giving the gosari yukgaejang a thick, porridge-like bod…

So much beef fills the earthenware bowl of soegogi haejangguk, a beef hangover soup, that the seonji (coagulated ox blo…

Clear, faintly milky broth fills a big stainless bowl along with thick bone-in cod, chunks of radish the size of a fist…

Big enough to be split into a main hall, an annex and a newer building, the place still feels like a plain country tave…

A tall parking tower stands beside this Jayang-dong drivers' diner, which fills an entire building near Konkuk Universi…

Sit down and one bowl of eojuk per person is ordered automatically, a spicy fish soup that already holds thin somyeon,…

Tile-roofed hanok pavilions are scattered across a hillside in Namhansanseong-myeon with a small stream running through…

A long makgeolli list, including Haechang and Daedaepo, invites trying unfamiliar rice brews at this jeon house near Sa…

A generous scoop of dadaegi chili paste goes into the sundaeguk, yet it melts in without making the soup too salty or h…

Right in front of Suyeong Station, this shop serves dwaeji-gukbap through toryeom, broth poured over the rice and drain…

The red broth, packed with dried cabbage leaves, looks fiery, but under the heat there is a sweetness from the radish a…