Busan chicken restaurant fruit set: Yetnal Tongdak & Tang

Yetnal Tongdak & Tang for a second round in Seomyeon

Yetnal Tongdak & Tang Seomyeon Branch (옛날통닭앤탕 서면점) is on the first floor at 73-1 Jungang-daero 680beonga-gil, Busanjin-gu, Busan, South Korea (부산광역시 부산진구 중앙대로680번가길 73-1 1층). It is open daily from 17:30 to 05:30, and accommodates groups, takeout, and delivery.

I’d wanted to try the famous Yetnal Tongdak & Tang in Yeonje-gu, and what?! There’s one in Seomyeon now too, so I’d been curious!!!! I finally went!!!! I love chicken dishes, so a place where you can have fried chicken and dakdoritang (Korean braised spicy chicken stew) together?

We came for a second round, and I was so happy that there was a round table where the five of us could sit cozily and eat together ><

Menu and prices

• Recommended: Entang ₩32,000 (one dakdoritang + half a whole fried chicken), Boneless Entang ₩33,000 (one dakdoritang + half boneless fried chicken), Gizzard Entang ₩30,000 (one dakdoritang + small fried chicken gizzards)
• Fruit set: choose half a pineapple, half a melon, or pineapple sherbet + one whole fried chicken ₩29,000 / one whole boneless fried chicken ₩30,000 / half a whole fried chicken ₩20,000 / half boneless fried chicken ₩21,000
• Chicken: whole fried chicken ₩20,000; boneless fried chicken or half-and-half fried chicken ₩21,000; fried chicken gizzards ₩13,000; soy-sauce fried chicken gizzards ₩14,000; boneless half-and-half fried chicken ₩22,000
• Stews: dakdoritang or Andong jjimdak (Andong-style braised chicken) ₩24,000; odeng-tang (fish cake soup) ₩15,000
• Fruit: half a pineapple, half a melon, or pineapple sherbet ₩9,900
• Sides: half a whole fried chicken ₩10,500; half boneless fried chicken ₩11,500; small fried chicken gizzards or tteokbokki (spicy rice cakes) ₩8,000; fries or fried shrimp ₩5,000; crispy dried filefish ₩6,000; rice balls ₩5,000; steamed rice ₩1,000; steamed egg ₩2,000
• Highballs: highball ₩5,900; green apple, omija, grapefruit, or Earl Grey highball ₩6,900
• Alcohol and drinks: soju, bottled beer, or 500 ml draft beer ₩5,000; 1,700 ml draft beer ₩15,000; Cheongha ₩6,000; canned soft drinks ₩2,000

It’s not on the menu, but they also have a Tteoksuni set.

There’s also a review event where you can win small fried chicken gizzards in a draw!!!!

With the visitor review event, you can get fries or a drink too!!!

Basic snacks and an Earl Grey highball

Shrimp chips, salad, and chicken radish pickles came as the basic snacks. One disappointing thing was that both the pickles and shrimp chips were soggy.. Still, I needed something to freshen my palate, so I ate the pickles; when I asked for a refill, they brought pickles from the fridge, so they were cold and at least a little better.

Earl Grey highball ₩6,900

Earl Grey highballs taste fairly consistent from place to place, so they’re an easy, safe kind of highball to order!!

The fruit set’s whole fried chicken and pineapple

Our food came out. Since this was our second round, we ordered the set menu with fruit as anju (food to have with drinks).

One whole traditional fried chicken

The whole traditional fried chicken wasn’t the old-school market-style chicken we know from places like Gamachi Chicken. I thought, “Isn’t the traditional fried chicken expensive?” but think of it as one whole order of regular fried chicken. It was incredibly generous!!!! It came with salt and chicken sauce, and, true to a great Busan chicken spot, it looked so delicious.

I could feel the crispiness just from picking it up with my chopsticks—so is this really a great Busan chicken spot after all?

Half a pineapple

It was only half a pineapple, but it was much more generous than I expected. The pineapple’s sweetness was just right too.

Since someone’s birthday was on the schedule, we always do cake during the second round, and they let us bring one. We celebrated properly and ate properly at Yetnal Tongdak & Tang Seomyeon Branch, a great Busan chicken spot >< Next time, I should come back for dakdoritang ~~~