Seafood in Jeju City: Myeongjin Jeonbok & More - 22 Local Picks

Abalone stone-pot rice soaks up the flavor of the innards, with dates and chestnuts tucked in. Once the rice is scooped…

Bring a small child and the kitchen sends out one free toddler meal per table, and sometimes a banana carved into a dol…

Live octopus and clams squirm in the pot until the heat sets them, and staff cut the larger seafood into bite-size piec…

Galchi-jorim here is braised with thick-cut radish and potato in a spicy sauce that does not lean on sugar. For galchi-…

Stone octopus stir-fry (dolmuneo bokkeum) comes heaped with perilla leaves, its sauce sweet and salty in a way that rec…

The jjamppong noodles are made with hijiki and gulfweed, two seaweeds Udo is known for. U-jjam is loaded with abalone,…

Hoe-guksu comes on a big platter with medium-thick wheat noodles, slices of raw white fish and chojang chili sauce all…

If you cannot decide between fresh-made kalguksu and fresh ramen for the noodles at the end, just ask for half of each.…

Call about 20 minutes before you arrive and they will have the whole hairtail grilling by the time you sit down. The sm…

The honryesang set puts a hot abalone stew (jeonbok ttukbaegi) and a tangy cold abalone mulhoe on the same table, so sp…

On the assorted platter, sizing up only adds more of the main fish; the side servings of mackerel, hairtail and filefis…

As soon as you sit down, barley rice with hijiki seaweed arrives, and the meal opens with mixing in the house-made blac…

Hallasan snowflake sushi tops raw salmon with cream that melts on the tongue, while buldaengi sushi uses cooked salmon.…

The name Maniju sounds like Korean for 'gives a lot', and the hoe jeongsik, a raw-fish set meal, lives up to it. Abalon…

Dodari sekkosi, flounder sliced bone-in, is cut so thin that the small bones barely register, and stacking a few slices…

Crab, octopus, conch, abalone, shrimp and scallops fill the pot so completely that the dish reads more like a seafood b…

Yellowtail takes center stage here, lean-tasting rather than greasy, and even the small platter fills the table. Friday…

True to its name, the medium live-abalone seafood stew holds 15 abalone, piled with half a stone octopus, pen shell, sh…

The hairtail arrives whole, either braised or grilled. The braise has a sweet, spicy sauce with radish and potato, and…

Everything from the sea here was caught by the owner herself, a haenyeo, one of Jeju's free-diving women. Bomal kalguks…

Gaekjuri jorim is filefish, which Jeju calls gaekjuri, braised in a sweet-spicy soy sauce; the lean, chewy flesh takes…

The bomal ppulsora tot kalguksu combines buckwheat-blended noodles with bomal sea snails, horned turban and hijiki in a…