Korean in Sokcho: Kim Young-ae Sundubu Bonjeom & More - 17 Local Picks

Sundubu baekban is the only dish, so you sit down, say how many you are, and the table is set almost at once. The tofu…

On a street crowded with chodang sundubu restaurants, waiting and parking are a battle almost everywhere, but this one…

The tangy pollock hoe-muchim among the side dishes pulls you toward the rice as hard as the soup does. A taste of ferme…

Tofu is made every morning from Korean soybeans, and the doors open early. The chodang sundubu set brings lightly seaso…

Gamja ongsimi arrives in a crock-shaped bowl that stays hot until you reach the bottom. The potato dumplings are grated…

The white sundubu is seasoned enough to eat without soy sauce, and soybean pulp made from the same beans comes on the s…

The sign still advertises native chicken, but the table centers on stone-platter jjajang noodles in black bean sauce, s…

Rice comes out deliberately scant, and one top-up is free if you want more. The boiling earthenware bowl looks to hold…

The pot holds fresh cod, not frozen pollock, so the flesh is springy yet comes apart along the grain on your spoon. Rad…

Tofu hot pot sits at the very top of the menu, with firm block tofu and silky sundubu cooked together in one pot. The s…

Ask for more soup and it comes back reheated in its own earthenware pot rather than ladled out. The hwangtae haejangguk…

Hand-pulled, the noodles come in uneven widths, and that unevenness is the fun of chewing this jang-kalguksu. The broth…

Order the sanchae bibimbap or the grilled hwangtae and either way a bowl of hwangtae haejangguk, dried pollack soup, co…

This set-meal restaurant sits on the Nohak-dong road toward Seoraksan, and its table leans to the mountains rather than…

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

Thin Hamheung-style noodles hold their spring under seasoned raw pollock, cucumber, pickled radish and boiled egg in th…

Pork-bone broth comes out milky enough to recall tonkotsu ramen, yet without any gamey smell, and it arrives already se…