Jeongdam Myeongga Namwon Chueotang 정담명가남원추어탕

The thick Namwon-style broth also comes with mud snails or abalone added, the snail meat chewy and the abalone firm. Order the chueo set and whole fried loach and a smoked-duck salad arrive beside the bowl. In tong-chueotang you chew through the flesh and fine bones of whole fish, and first-timers usually find the basic version easier, with the loach ground fine into doenjang and perilla seed.