Where to eat in Chungbuk

At this barley rice restaurant, the cheonggukjang set can arrive with grilled mackerel, gorgonzola pizza or tteokgalbi…

Galbitang (beef short rib soup), jokbal (braised pig's trotters) and jeyuk (spicy pork) sit in a row, and the fried chi…

Guests are seated only as fast as the kitchen can keep up, and while the wait outside can be long, food comes quickly o…

Charcoal-grilled eel and seokgalbi, pork neck grilled on a stone plate, come together on one platter called jjanggal. C…

Buckwheat sprouts are heaped on the bibim makguksu like a little roof, and the myeongtae sikhae, a fermented pollock re…

Trout sashimi salad has to be requested by phone ahead of time. Book by phone and the side dishes will already be laid…

A thin cabbage-and-buckwheat pancake lands on the table before the main pot, free with the order. Yangpun deunggalbi-jj…

Buy a pack of ramyeon, collect a pot, a burner and a windscreen, and cook it yourself on the outdoor deck above Chungju…

Only yang and cheonyeop, the first and third stomachs of the cow, go into the naejang-tang, and even the regular size h…

Wanggalbitang, a big bowl of beef short rib soup, lands on the table almost as soon as you order. Its broth is clear an…

Seafood kalguksu comes in a clear broth or a spicy red one, with noodles made in a separate noodle room. The haemul paj…

Every bowl of naengmyeon arrives with four meat-filled dumplings at no extra charge, and the regular and large portions…

Sliding paper doors divide the large hall so each party eats in its own section. The gunggwol jeongsik, or Palace set,…

Food stations for Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Western dishes fill the whole second floor, from sashimi and sushi to a…

A wall of split firewood stacked by the entrance feeds the iron cauldrons where the soup simmers. So meori gomtang, bee…

The kitchen fries chicken in batches every 15 to 20 minutes, and each batch disappears so fast that people wait by the…

Don-seokgalbi, soy-marinated pork ribs, comes out still sizzling with onions on a heated stone plate, which means no gr…

Sharing a lot with a gas station, this lakeside cafe looks out over Cheongpung Lake and the hills around it. Orders are…

Weekdays start from the base san-jeongsik. Deul-jeongsik adds abalone stuffed with shiitake, hae-jeongsik adds borigulb…

Rice cakes and donuts are sold in numbered-ticket order, and once the morning batch is gone you wait for the second sal…

The assorted seafood jang set brings abalone, shrimp, octopus, salmon and crab, all soaked evenly in soy marinade, and…

A narrow village lane winds between rice paddies to an old farmhouse with rows of crock jars, which turned from a home…

The two basics share one white tonkotsu broth: shiro serves it as is, and aka stirs in a red chili seasoning. The tsuke…

The road winds steeply up a mountainside, and the smell of charcoal-grilled meat meets you at the door. Barbecue platte…