Three-dish weekday lunch at a Dalmaji-gil Chinese restaurant: Bueokgan

I came to Busan today to visit a friend's housewarming (took a half-day off work, feeling great about it). Before meeting my friend, I stopped by for Chinese food for lunch! I'd heard there was a Chinese restaurant with a European vibe, so I came to check it out.

Bueokgan Chinese Haeundae Branch

Where is Bueokgan Chinese Haeundae Branch, and is there parking?

Bueokgan Chinese Haeundae Branch sits on the hill of Haeundae's Dalmaji-gil. There are 2 parking spots beside the restaurant. My navigation directed me around the back of the building, and I was going 'where is it, where is it' before finding the lot, haha. Look for a building that looks like this and you'll be in the right place, ha-ha.

Chinese restaurant on the 1st floor, European restaurant on the 2nd

Bueokgan Chinese Haeundae Branch's Chinese restaurant is on the 1st floor! The 2nd floor is a European restaurant — must be under the same Bueokgan brand family. I went up to the 2nd floor, sat at a table, looked at the menu, and went 'wait, this isn't it' and had to come back down, lol lol. The Chinese restaurant is on the 1st floor, everyone!

Bueokgan's seating and menu prices

There's quite a lot of seating inside Bueokgan Chinese Haeundae Branch! With 2- and 4-person tables, there were even solo diners eating alone. It also seems like a good spot for group gatherings.

📋 Menu

• BUUK jjajangmyeon — ₩8,000
• Paihwanggwa (Chinese-style cucumber salad) — ₩8,000
• Poached-egg five-layer pork ganjajang — ₩10,000
• Spicy ganjajang — ₩10,000
• Beef belly jjamppong — ₩12,000
• Seafood jjamppong — ₩14,000
• Shrimp fried rice — ₩10,000
• Poached-egg octopus jungwha rice bowl — ₩16,000
• Pyogosa — ₩18,000
• Eoyanggaji (spicy eggplant) — ₩22,000
• Jalapeño cream shrimp — ₩22,000
• Whole garlic yuringi — ₩26,000

🐷 We ordered jalapeño cream shrimp (₩22,000), eoyanggaji (₩22,000), and whole garlic yuringi (₩26,000).

The basic side dishes were pickled radish, pickled cucumber (jjacha), and jasmine tea. I kept wondering 'what's that scent, what's that scent' — turned out to be the jasmine tea, haha.

Jalapeño cream shrimp, 22,000 won

Jalapeño cream shrimp (₩22,000) comes with jalapeños on top of cream shrimp! Lettuce, cream shrimp, jalapeños, and shaved coconut chips on top. The combination of creamy shrimp with spicy jalapeño was really good.

Eoyanggaji stir-fried eggplant, 22,000 won

Eoyanggaji (₩22,000) is fried eggplant drizzled with a spicy-sweet sauce! Raw shredded onion is added on top to cut the richness. It's also topped with green onion.

Whole garlic yuringi, 26,000 won

Whole garlic yuringi (₩26,000) is yuringi topped with whole garlic, red chili, and green chili. The yuringi is made with chicken thigh meat. The tangy yuringi sauce plus the whole garlic made it less rich.

Haha my friend held it up so I could photograph the cross-section of the shrimp. I also snapped a cross-section of the fried eggplant.

This is the cross-section of the yuringi. Since it's chicken thigh meat, it wasn't dry at all.

We ordered a bowl of rice but were too full to even touch it, ha.

Is a three-dish lunch at Bueokgan worth it?

• A Chinese restaurant with a European-style sensibility
• Parking is available for 2 cars in front of the restaurant
• Located on the 1st floor of the building
• Has jjajangmyeon, jjamppong and other full meal options, so it seems good for solo dining
• Spacious interior seating, so it seems good for group gatherings too
• The jalapeño cream shrimp has coconut chips on top for a unique combination
• The whole garlic yuringi has whole garlic pieces for an interesting texture