Shrimp keto gimbap lunch in Jamsil-saenae, Seoul: Jamsil Cheotjip

Jamsil-saenae lunch spot Jamsil Cheotjip Gimbap and bibimbap, affordable Korean food 🚩Address 61 Seokchonhosu-ro, B1 B102, Songpa-gu, Seoul 🕒Hours Mon-Sat 09:00~20:00 📌Closed every Sunday 🅿️Free parking available

Where is Jamsil Cheotjip?

A Jamsil-saenae Station spot known for great gimbap (seaweed rice roll) and other Korean dishes, good for both lunch and dinner at a fair price — Jamsil Cheotjip. My mom once told me she'd found a really good gimbap place near Jamsil-saenae Station, and it turned out to be exactly this one, in the Trizium mall in Jamsil ✨. We happened to have plans in Jamsil together, so we stopped by — and wow, it was genuinely delicious... (it's just gimbap, but I still think about it). It's conveniently connected right inside Exit 2 of the subway, and you can park free for an hour and a half at the Trizium mall!

It's right in front of Lotte Super in the Trizium mall, so it wasn't hard to find at all! The interior was bigger than I expected, with plenty of tables, making it easy to eat comfortably haha. Even on an early weekday lunch there were customers, and by peak lunchtime it was clearly a popular Jamsil-saenae spot with takeout, delivery, and dine-in customers all at once~

Jamsil Cheotjip's menu and what we ordered

Jamsil Cheotjip has all kinds of gimbap along with noodles, bibimbap, rice bowls, pork cutlet, tteokbokki (spicy stir-fried rice cakes) and more full meal options! Plenty of choices for a satisfying meal whether you come for lunch or dinner haha.

Shrimp keto gimbap ₩9,000 Beef gochujang bibimbap ₩10,000

Yak-gochujang bibimbap, 10,000 won: six seasoned vegetables with beef chili paste

The one dish I have to recommend at Jamsil Cheotjip is the beef gochujang bibimbap ♪(´▽｀). Honestly, it's gotten harder to find a really good bibimbap place these days, but Jamsil Cheotjip absolutely delivers! It's a healthy bibimbap with six kinds of seasoned vegetables mixed with properly made beef gochujang — the ingredients are generous and it just feels wholesome, so it's both delicious and good for you 👍

You add as much gochujang as you like — a little makes it mild and healthy-tasting, more makes the flavor richer, and both ways were great! It felt like eating fresh, real Korean food for the first time in a while, packed with that healthy feeling (´▽`ʃ♡ƪ). My mom said it was the best bibimbap she'd had eating out in a long time — a genuine Jamsil-saenae Korean food find haha.

Shrimp keto gimbap, 9,000 won: egg sheets instead of rice

And then the shrimp keto gimbap that kept haunting my thoughts for days 🤤. Wanting to be a little more mindful about what I eat, I deliberately ordered the keto version with egg sheets instead of rice — and it was so, so good!! Loaded with egg sheets and four generous handmade fried shrimp, it was also a big portion, totally filling 👏🏻

It was on a completely different level from regular gimbap — apparently they use clean, antibiotic-free eggs and seaweed from Wando. Even the pickled radish isn't the store-bought kind; they dye it themselves with beets 👍 I ordered the keto version, but if you order regular gimbap it's made with quality Gyeonggi rice! With that much care put into it, generous portions of gimbap like this couldn't possibly taste bad haha.

The sauce served alongside is the real kicker

The sauce that comes with this shrimp gimbap was a total game changer (≧∇≦)ﾉ. The gimbap already tasted great fresh on its own, but the combo with this sauce made it 100 times better! I'm not usually someone who loves sauces, but this one was so good I kept dipping generously and ate every bite happily haha. Honestly the best gimbap I've had in a long time — on the way out, we packed a few more rolls to take home 😍

Is Jamsil Cheotjip worth a lunch stop?

Jamsil Cheotjip, a Jamsil-saenae Korean restaurant I'd recommend as a lunch spot. From the gimbap to the bibimbap, every dish was so good that both my mom and I kept exclaiming over it haha. Fresh ingredients, generous portions, and great taste altogether made it the kind of place that stays on your mind even though it's just Korean food ❤️ If you want a simple yet hearty meal, Jamsil Cheotjip near Jamsil-saenae Station comes fully recommended!