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• 비빔밥

  bibimbap

  Rice topped with seasoned vegetables, usually egg and often beef, served with gochujang chilli paste to mix through — the name just means mixed rice. Stir it thoroughly before eating; arriving beautiful and being destroyed is the point. The stone-pot version (dolsot) keeps cooking at the table and leaves a prized crust of toasted rice at the bottom.

  • 혼밥 가능
  • 채식 가능

• 삼겹살

  samgyeopsal

  Thick slices of unseasoned pork belly grilled at your own table, cut up with scissors, and eaten wrapped in a lettuce or perilla leaf with garlic and ssamjang paste. It is Korea's default night out, ordered by the portion for two or more. One wrap is one bite — building a leaf burrito marks you as new, which nobody minds.

  • 2인 이상

• 김치찌개

  kimchi-jjigae

  Sour, aged kimchi simmered with pork or tuna and tofu into a bubbling red stew, served with rice. It is everyday food — the dish Koreans miss abroad — and a reliable first stew because the heat is warming rather than punishing. Eaten straight from the boiling pot, so let it stand a minute.

  • 🌶 매움
  • 혼밥 가능

• 떡볶이

  tteokbokki

  Cylinders of chewy rice cake in a sweet-hot gochujang sauce, the emblematic street food. The texture — dense and springy — is the point, not a flaw, and the heat varies wildly between stalls. Usually eaten standing at the stall with a skewer of fish cake and a free cup of its broth.

  • 🌶 매움
  • 길거리 음식

• 치킨

  chikin

  Double-fried for a shatteringly thin crust, sold plain (huraideu) or glazed with sweet-spicy sauce (yangnyeom), and inseparable from beer — the pairing has its own name, chimaek. Ordered whole or half rather than by the piece, late in the evening, and delivered anywhere. Half-and-half of both styles is the standard first order.

  • 2인 이상

• 냉면

  naengmyeon

  Thin, elastic buckwheat noodles served in an icy beef broth (mul-naengmyeon) or tossed in chilli sauce (bibim-naengmyeon), often with a half boiled egg and pear. A summer institution and the traditional end to a barbecue meal. Staff will offer scissors to cut the noodles — accept; they are long enough to be a hazard otherwise.

  • 혼밥 가능

• 삼계탕

  samgyetang

  A whole young chicken stuffed with glutinous rice, ginseng, garlic and jujube, simmered until it collapses off the bone into a milky broth. Not spicy at all — you season it yourself with the salt and pepper provided. Koreans eat it on the hottest days of summer on the fight-heat-with-heat principle, but it is restorative in any season.

  • 혼밥 가능

• 짜장면

  jjajangmyeon

  Wheat noodles under a glossy black sauce of caramelised chunjang bean paste, onion and pork — Korean-Chinese food, a category of its own with its own restaurants. Mild, savoury and slightly sweet; the safest possible order for a cautious eater. Traditionally the meal for moving day, and the standard delivery order alongside its spicy seafood sibling, jjamppong.

  • 혼밥 가능

• 김밥

  gimbap

  Rice and fillings — pickled radish, egg, vegetables, ham or tuna — rolled in seaweed and sliced. It looks like sushi and is nothing like it: the rice is seasoned with sesame oil rather than vinegar, and it is picnic food, sold everywhere from specialist counters to convenience stores. The reliable portable meal for a train or a hike.

  • 혼밥 가능
  • 채식 가능
  • 길거리 음식

• 순두부찌개

  sundubu-jjigae

  Silken, unpressed tofu in a fiery red broth with clams or pork, brought to the table still boiling with a raw egg to crack in. The tofu is custard-soft and carries the heat gently. Usually a set meal with rice and side dishes, and one of the easier stews to find in a vegetarian version if you ask about the broth.

  • 🌶 매움
  • 혼밥 가능
  • 채식 가능

• 갈비

  galbi

  Beef or pork ribs in a sweet soy-garlic marinade, grilled at the table like samgyeopsal but richer and more of an occasion. The sugar in the marinade burns quickly, so the meat is moved constantly — usually by staff, who will often simply take over the grill. The soup made from the same ribs, galbitang, is its gentle daytime cousin.

  • 2인 이상

• 해물파전

  haemul-pajeon

  A crisp-edged, custardy-centred pancake of spring onions and seafood, torn or cut into pieces and shared. By firm tradition it is what Koreans crave when it rains, eaten with makgeolli rice wine — the pairing you will find at the foot of every hiking trail. Vegetable-only versions are common.

  • 2인 이상
  • 채식 가능

• 국밥

  gukbap

  A family of workaday soups — pork (dwaeji-gukbap, Busan's signature), beef, or bean sprout — served over or beside rice, often from pots that never stop simmering. This is what cheap, honest, open-at-dawn Korean food looks like, and the gukbap house is where you eat well alone without a second glance.

  • 혼밥 가능

• 호떡

  hotteok

  A griddled yeast pancake filled with brown sugar, cinnamon and crushed nuts that melt into hot syrup. Winter street food at its best, handed over in a paper cup. The filling emerges close to molten — the first-bite burn is a rite of passage worth avoiding by waiting a minute.

  • 길거리 음식

• 닭갈비

  dakgalbi

  Chicken, cabbage, sweet potato and rice cakes stir-fried in gochujang on a great iron plate set into the table, the speciality of Chuncheon east of Seoul. Eaten in stages: the main event first, then fried rice made in the same pan with the sauce that remains — order the rice; it is the best part.

  • 🌶 매움
  • 2인 이상

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