Samgyetang in South Korea - 21 Restaurant Picks

Small whole chickens stuffed with glutinous rice simmer in a broth steeped with eomnamu (castor aralia) bark and herbal…

Naju perilla seeds are ground into the perilla samgyetang until the broth turns thick and nutty, while the black-sesame…

Since 1974 this small Nonhyeon-dong shop has served only samgyetang, whole chicken soup, and ban-gyetang, the half-bird…

The broth simmers for hours with sanghwang mushroom, and the first thing to rise from the bowl is an earthy, savory sme…

Instead of stuffing the chicken, the kitchen serves the sticky rice in its own bowl, to be dropped into the broth and s…

Each chicken is stuffed with mung beans and glutinous rice and cooked in a thick broth, and once the meat is gone, an a…

Instead of simmering the chicken, the kitchen roasts it whole and sets abalone on top, while the herbal broth made with…

Each whole chicken, stuffed with glutinous rice, arrives still bubbling in its own earthenware pot. The house Dongbaek…

Samgyetang arrives in a glass bowl, which makes it easy to portion out, and a small plate of chicken gizzards comes fir…

Glutinous rice is packed inside the chicken and simmered with large pieces of medicinal herbs, giving a hanbang samgyet…

Sanghwang mushroom turns the broth a curry-like yellow, but the taste is all chicken and nutty grain. It is thick enoug…

Nurungji samgyetang sets a whole young chicken in front of each diner, while nurungji baeksuk brings one big pot of chi…

Ground nuts and grains thicken the broth into something closer to a potage than the clear samgyetang most places serve,…

Clear, mild broth defines the samgyetang (whole young chicken soup with ginseng) at this compact dining room off Seosom…

Ten kinds of grain and ginseng go into the broth, which makes this samgyetang (whole young chicken soup) nuttier and th…

Staff in hanbok handle everything from seating guests to serving them in a hanok set in a carefully kept garden. The sa…

Samgyetang has been the only dish for some forty years, so ordering is just a matter of saying how many people are at t…

Each person gets a large bowl holding a whole native chicken with ginkgo nuts, jujube, garlic and ginseng, cooked long…

Ground perilla seeds, pine nuts and peanuts thicken the broth of the deulkkae samgyetang (chicken soup with perilla) un…

A small glass of ginseng liquor lands next to every bowl in the second-floor dining room near Myeong-dong Station Exit…

A hot pot of marinated chicken bulgogi comes free with every samgyetang order, stirred with chopsticks as it cooks at t…