Noodles in South Korea - 217 Restaurant Picks | Page 9

The dombe gogi, boiled pork on a board, comes out warm with no porky smell, and the gogi guksu broth is just as clean.…

Order the suyuk and the buckwheat pancake together: lay boiled pork and seasoned fish on the thin, wide pancake and fol…

The hanwoo yangji kalguksu puts knife-cut noodles in a clear broth simmered from 1++ grade Korean beef brisket. At week…

The gogi-guksu broth is thick enough to recall dogani-tang or seolleongtang, both slow-simmered beef soups, and the spo…

Lift the lid and squid and small octopus are piled over the clams and mussels like a seafood braise. Choose a clear or…

The menu is just kalguksu (knife-cut noodle soup) and meat dumplings, and ordering kalguksu brings a small bowl of barl…

Before the noodles, the table gets sticky rice from Boseong instead of the usual barley rice, chewy and faintly sweet.…

For years this shop traded as Ilsan Kalguksu before renaming itself Ilsan Gyoja. Its bajirak kalguksu uses small but sw…

Haemul kalguksu is the one thing on the stove, in a broth made from dried pollack and loaded with scallops, clams, muss…

This shop moved just across the bridge from the old Hambyeonghyeon Kimchimari Guksu site, so anyone looking for that na…

One pot of broth heaped with minari (water parsley) and mushrooms carries the whole meal: shabu-shabu, then hand-cut ka…

Clams heap up over the rim of the bajirak kalguksu, knife-cut noodles in a milky clam broth, and the noodles are cut th…

Down a narrow lane between Jongno 3-ga Station and Ikseon-dong, a worn sign and a small doorway open onto a long row of…

Pure buckwheat noodles have little chew; the nutty buckwheat flavor comes through instead as you work through a mouthfu…

The sign reads Oksu Sutbulgui, but people call it Oksu Kalguksu. Gochujang charcoal-grilled meat, cooked here since 199…

Near Mukho Port, jang kalguksu is ladled out from early morning. The soup leans on gochujang more than doenjang, so the…

The bibim guksu sauce is neither salty nor very hot, yet a little heat lingers at the end, enough to bother young child…

One Hanwoo beef broth runs through the menu: noodles go in for Andong-guksi, rice for Hanwoo gukbap. Seasoned chives, a…

Instead of the usual pollack, the hoe-makguksu here is topped with gajami-sikhae, fermented flatfish. Deulgireum makguk…

Kimchi loaded with garlic, sharp and pungent, sits on every table and is refilled as often as you ask. Kalguksu here me…

Boiled pork comes with kelp, seaweed and spicy marinated pollock, all meant for wrapping together. Three ladles of dong…

Each kimchi son-mandu is small enough to fit on a spoon with a mouthful of milky beef-bone broth. Solo diners get a cou…

The kalguksu here uses thin, round noodles instead of flat ribbons, and the dough, made with some bread flour mixed in,…

Black soybeans go into the dough for the deulkkae sujebi, hand-torn noodles in a thick perilla-seed soup built on dried…