Hongsi Hanjeongsik 홍시한정식

Folding screens from the 1970s and old wooden furniture make the dining rooms feel more like a family home than a Gyeongju tourist restaurant. Only two sets are offered, the basic hanjeongsik and the bulgogi hanjeongsik, and since the price gap is small, the bulgogi set adds sweet soy-marinated beef and stone-pot rice for little extra. Around fifteen small dishes come in stages, from chicken porridge, pancakes and salad to grilled mackerel, perilla-seed porridge and marinated crab, all lightly seasoned so no single plate dominates. Dessert is an ice hongsi, a frozen ripe persimmon, with ssanghwa herbal tea simmered for 12 hours. Solo diners cannot order.