Seongsan Korean restaurant: Set A + extra sea urchin soup, Jejurowoon

When you travel to Jeju, there are a few dishes you just have to eat: Jeju hairtail stew, grilled tilefish and sea urchin seaweed soup! And here's a hairtail stew restaurant in Seongsan where you can have all of them on one table: Jejurowoon Cheonghaewon Seongsan Ilchulbong Branch (제주로운청해원 성산일출봉점).

Jejurowoon Seongsan Ilchulbong Branch: hours and parking

Jejurowoon Cheonghaewon Seongsan Ilchulbong Branch is at 101 Sinyang-ro, Seongsan-eup, Seogwipo-si, Jeju, South Korea (1st floor), and it's open every day from 8:00 am to 9:30 pm (last order 9:00 pm). Parking is available: just park on the road in front of the restaurant.

It's also close to Seongsan Ilchulbong, Seopjikoji and Aqua Planet, so it's easy to get to.

Atmosphere and who eats here

Inside, the tables are nicely spaced, so it's a comfortable place to eat. Most of the guests were families, and I saw lots of foreign visitors too. I'd guess that's because the menu is the kind everyone likes, young and old, Koreans and tourists alike!

How much are the set menus at Jejurowoon?

The sets at Jejurowoon Seongsan Ilchulbong Branch run from ₩16,000 per person (Set C) to ₩27,000 (Set B). Every set comes with pot rice, soy-marinated crab, and either seafood stew or sea urchin seaweed soup. You can only pick one soup per 2 servings.

• Set A, ₩24,000 per person: hairtail stew + grilled tilefish + pot rice + soy-marinated crab + seafood stew or sea urchin seaweed soup
• Set B, ₩27,000 per person: mackerel kimchi stew + grilled tilefish + pot rice + soy-marinated crab + seafood stew or sea urchin seaweed soup
• Set C, ₩16,000 per person: grilled tilefish + pot rice + soy-marinated crab + seafood stew or sea urchin seaweed soup
• Set D, ₩18,000 per person: black pork duruchigi (spicy stir-fry) + pot rice + soy-marinated crab + seafood stew or sea urchin seaweed soup

✔️ The rule is one order per person, and sets are available for 2 servings or more.

There are à la carte dishes too: abalone seafood stew ₩15,000, abalone porridge ₩15,000 and sea urchin seaweed soup ₩15,000.

The soy-marinated crab can also be shipped by courier.

Set A for 2 plus à la carte sea urchin seaweed soup

I ordered 2 servings of Set A and 2 servings of à la carte sea urchin seaweed soup, and a really generous table was laid out.

For Set A, we got hairtail stew, grilled tilefish, pot rice, soy-marinated crab, and chose seafood stew as the soup. You get to try everything, so it's a very hearty set.

Side dishes and soy-marinated crab

Jejurowoon serves a number of side dishes (banchan), and each one was clean-tasting and not too salty, so they go well with the main dishes and gave the whole meal a homestyle feel. The soy-marinated crab is small in amount, but since it's included in the sets, it's nice for a taste.

Hairtail stew: not spicy, no fishy smell

The first thing my chopsticks went for was, of course, the hairtail stew. The color of the sauce alone looked so appetizing. The stew was spicy-ish with a deep flavor, and the radish simmered in the sauce was cooked through nicely, so it looked like a total rice thief just by looking at it!

The sauce wasn't hot, and the savory depth really came through. Maybe because it's good-quality Jeju hairtail, there was no fishy smell, and the radish had soaked up the sauce properly, so it's great with rice.

Hairtail on top of the pot rice

The pot rice had grains that kept their bite, so the texture was great! Put hairtail on the hot pot rice, add a little sauce on top, and a whole bowl disappears in no time.

Seafood stew packed with seafood

The seafood stew I chose with Set A had a wide variety of seafood, and a really large amount of it. Again it wasn't salty, so the flavor isn't overwhelming.

Grilled tilefish: crispy outside, moist inside

The grilled tilefish (okdom) was golden and crispy on the outside, and the flesh inside was moist and clean-tasting. It wasn't seasoned heavily, so you can enjoy the natural nutty richness of the fish itself.

À la carte sea urchin seaweed soup

The sea urchin seaweed soup (₩15,000) I ordered à la carte was also mild and healthy-tasting, with a generous portion.

Buying Jeju specialty snacks after the meal

Jejurowoon Seongsan Ilchulbong Branch also sells Jeju specialty snacks inside the restaurant, so they'd be nice to pick up as a dessert after eating.

After sightseeing around Seongsan, Jeju, if you want a hearty table with lots of different dishes, drop by Jejurowoon Seongsan Ilchulbong Branch.