Jeju City black pork BBQ, 600g ribs and radish noodles: Pork80

Let me introduce Pork80 Jeju Airport Branch, a Jeju black pork spot on Choiza Road that serves Nanchuk Matdon.

Pork80 Jeju Airport Branch: business info

• Name: Pork80 Jeju Airport Branch (포크80 제주공항점)
• Address: 37-1 Noyeon-ro, Jeju-si, Jeju, 1st floor
• Hours: 12:00 to 24:00
• Break time: none
• Last order: 23:00
• Closed: no closing days

Where is it, and where do you park?

Pork80 Jeju Airport Branch is a black pork restaurant near Jeju Airport, about 10 minutes by car. It is in Nohyeong-dong, and with lots of hotels nearby it works well if you are staying in the area.

You can't park at the building. Park at Nohyeong Paid Parking Lot (노형유료주차장), a 1-minute walk away, and the restaurant gives you a free parking ticket.

Exterior

This is Pork80, a traditional charcoal grill where you can enjoy Nanchuk Matdon at its best, and the place Choiza filmed (Choiza Road, Local Calling).

Pork80, where we came, is a certified Nanchuk Matdon seller.

What is Nanchuk Matdon?

A quick aside: what is Nanchuk Matdon? It is a premium black pork breed with about 4 times the intramuscular fat (marbling) of ordinary pork, spread evenly, so it has great marbling, flavor and a tender texture.

Inside Pork80 Jeju Airport Branch

The room fits about 70 diners and has a retro feel.

Tables are spaced widely, so you get a fairly private meal~

The kitchen is open, so you can watch the staff prepare food, and you can see how much they care about cleanliness.

So that you can enjoy the meat at its best, the first round comes with a grilling service. The marinated meat, though, you have to grill yourself. If you can't decide what to order, they recommend starting with the traditional charcoal-grilled meat, then moving on to raw ribs or marinated ribs.

Pork80 Jeju Airport Branch menu and prices

Nanchuk Matdon, a native Jeju black pork, comes as a 900g bone-in loin set (₩109,000) or 300g bone-in loin for ₩39,000, and Nanchuk Matdon can be ordered starting from one plate. Other first orders start at 2 servings, and additional orders start at 2 servings excluding the charcoal-grilled items, they say.

Jeju pork raw ribs and marinated ribs are also available, and the meal items are a horned turban shell seafood stew in an earthenware pot, soft tofu stew, kimchi fried rice, noodles and pork rice.

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What we ordered: raw ribs 600g and two bowls of noodles

We ordered one 600g plate of raw ribs (₩56,000), young radish noodles (₩8,000) and bibim noodles (₩8,000).

The basic side dishes came out, and they are so good with the meat.

Pickled onion, chili pepper and pickled perilla leaves, which meat can't do without

Crunchy, spicy-sour napa cabbage salad (geotjeori) and seasoned radish strips (musaengchae) that go so well with the meat

Scallion salad that cuts the richness of the meat

The marinated raw crab (yangnyeom gejang), full of meat, with a spicy-sweet, deeply savory sauce. It made me want to order a bowl of rice, but the noodles looked so good that I held back, haha

Matcha salt and meljorim (braised anchovy-like fish) came out too.

600g raw ribs with the grilling service

A glossy, fresh plate of 600g raw ribs (₩56,000) came out with scallions and king oyster mushrooms.

The restaurant uses real charcoal, so the meat picks up a smoky aroma and the flavor was even better.

Since the grilling service is provided, we could chat with our group and eat comfortably.

The table has instructions on how to properly enjoy Pork80's pork, and following them is a lot of fun. The grilling service is normally only for Nanchuk Matdon, but they grilled the raw ribs for us too, haha

First, dip it lightly in the matcha salt: it cuts the richness and lets you really taste the meat itself.

Topping it with a little fresh wasabi is also delicious. There was no gamey smell at all and the juices burst out, so it's easy to see why this place has a reputation.

As for meljorim, it's usually too salty to dip in much, but Pork80's was so well balanced between sweet and salty that it would be good even mixed into rice.

Whether you eat it with the seasoned radish, the pickled onion, the scallion salad or the cabbage salad, the meat itself is so good that everything works, haha

Finishing with young radish noodles and bibim noodles

In this weather, nothing makes a better meal than these young radish noodles (yeolmu guksu, ₩8,000), and they were deeply satisfying.

Floating with bits of ice, these young radish noodles are refreshingly cold, and the tangy sourness is a real charm.

These spicy bibim noodles (₩8,000) taste better than at an ordinary noodle shop and come topped with plenty of pork.