Sowon Jee · 2 stories

A Bench Off the Gunpo Road

Writes about small restaurants found while exploring towns across Gyeonggi. · Writes about: Restaurants

PlaceYongin, GyeonggiRestaurants

Handmade seafood noodle soup in Dongbaek, Yongin: Baekcheongu Kalguksu

Baekcheongu Kalguksu Yongin Dongbaek Branch is a handmade noodle restaurant in Dongbaek, Yongin, Gyeonggi, where the dough is kneaded in-house for its seafood kalguksu (knife-cut noodle soup). Twelve weeks pregnant and deep in morning sickness, the writer took a half-day off and shared seafood kalguksu for two (₩12,000 each) plus half-and-half steamed dumplings (₩11,000) with her husband, scraping the bowl clean thanks to the clear, deep seafood broth. It was the most satisfying meal she managed during weeks of nausea.

Written Sep 13, 2026Sponsored
PlaceHwaseong, GyeonggiRestaurants

Hwaseong meat restaurant with floor seating and yukhoe: Morakmorak

Morakmorak Jeongyuk Sikdang Namyang Hwaseong City Hall Main Branch is a butcher-shop-style meat restaurant on Yeokgol-jungang-ro in Namyang-eup, Hwaseong, Gyeonggi. A three-generation family booked a floor-seating table through Naver, picked galbisal (rib finger meat), pork neck and pork belly for charcoal pre-grilling, and got yukhoe (beef tartare), tacos and mook (acorn jelly) soup with the 5,000-won table charge, plus unlimited bone-broth ramyeon. The pork neck alone at Morakmorak is reason enough to return.

Written Sep 15, 2026Sponsored
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