Restaurants in Yangcheon, Seoul - 13 Picks

Cast-iron pans do the work: staff grill gabrissal (pork collar cap), fermented pork neck and belly, mostly keeping the…

Perilla leaves pile high on the haemul-ppyeojjim, pork neck bones braised with seafood in a heavy, spicy sauce, and the…

The anchovy broth is brewed strong and comes out on the salty side, though the kitchen will make it milder on request.…

The haenae-tang comes heavy with mixed innards, and extra seonji (blood curd) arrives as a whole second earthenware bow…

Open 24 hours in Mokdong, this seolleongtang (ox-bone soup) house seats solo diners before dawn as well as groups at di…

Thick, springy octopus is stir-fried in a fiery sauce and mixed into white rice for nakji-bokkeum-deopbap, the dish mos…

A small bowl of barley rice comes out before the noodles, to be mixed with yeolmu (young radish) kimchi, gochujang and…

Down on the basement level of Sesin Vision Plaza in Mokdong, the kitchen serves Andong guksi, soft wheat noodles in a m…

Coffee, tea and house-made desserts make up the whole offering at this small independent cafe in a residential corner o…

Scorched rice lines the bottom of the udon bowl, and dropping the shrimp tempura that comes alongside into the broth le…

Mala tang and mala xiang guo stay spicy without tipping into harsh, a measured Sichuan heat in Mokdong near Yeomchang S…

The restaurant fills a converted two-story house at the foot of Sinjeongsan, with tables set in what used to be the liv…

Before the soup arrives, a retro metal lunchbox lands on the table holding rice and a fried egg, with radish salad, bea…