Cheonan crab restaurant: crab set for a family of four, Huni Gejang

A gejang restaurant in Yuryang-dong, Cheonan, perfect after Gakwonsa flowers: Huni Gejang

Huni Gejang (훈이꽃게장) is a brand-new marinated crab spot in Yuryang-dong, Cheonan. Each person's crab set comes with spicy crab, soy crab, soy shrimp and even pot rice. The weather's been so nice that I've been out flower-viewing a lot, and right now the flowers at Gakwonsa Temple are just so pretty. If you're stopping by Gakwonsa, Huni Gejang is the Yuryang-dong place to go!

Spicy crab, soy crab and soy shrimp per person, plus pot rice, I loved that ^^ The setup is great, but the main dish is really tasty too, so I've bookmarked it as a place I'll definitely go back to.

What comes with the crab set at Huni Gejang?

The crab set comes with side dishes, dried seaweed, disposable gloves and butter, and if you need more sides, just ask and they bring them right over! Wrapping soy crab or spicy crab in dried seaweed is the golden rule, right? ^_^

Picking out crab meat isn't easy, so the gloves make eating much more comfortable. And if you like mixing your rice, they give you butter too, which is heavenly stirred in. I ate my pot rice alongside instead of mixing, but I still ended up ordering an extra bowl of rice, our little secret. The sauce was so good that my mouth waters just thinking about it.

Save the steamed egg for the spicy crab

The set also comes with steamed egg, fluffy and silky and delicious. Don't finish it all at the start, save it for when you eat the spicy crab, haha. The crab here is great, but the sauce is spicy, so the egg is a perfect match.

Ordering the crab set for four, with a child

My child eats gejang really well too, so we ordered the crab set for four at Huni Gejang, and the table came out generous. Everyone had their own pot rice. My child liked it even more and begged to come back for a birthday. (A birthday that's coming up soon, our little secret.)

Is the soy crab at Huni Gejang too salty?

The soy crab at Huni Gejang is seasoned just right, not too salty, with a clean soy base and no medicinal herbal smell, so it's really good. I go for gejang in Cheonan, Chungnam now and then, and I make it at home too, but getting the seasoning right is far from easy. Some places use herbal medicine ingredients, but Huni Gejang has none of that smell.

You can enjoy it sweet and salty, but neither the sweetness nor the soy flavor hits you too hard. The balance is really good for a Yuryang-dong restaurant. I've tried a few places in Cheonan, and every time I wonder: soy or spicy? At Huni Gejang you can have both without agonizing.

Above all, the crab quality is good. They're full inside and clean-tasting, so I think it would suit a family meal or taking your parents.

Maybe because the crabs are so full, even picking out the meat was delicious! I sucked out every last bit.

Crab-shell rice topped with flying fish roe

Mixing rice in the soy crab shell is the golden rule, right? Huni Gejang also has flying fish roe, and putting it on top gives a nice popping texture.

How spicy is the spicy crab at Huni Gejang?

The spicy crab at Huni Gejang is generously coated in sauce and nicely spicy, and mixing it into rice or wrapping it in seaweed is pure bliss. I used to be a soy-crab-juice-on-rice person, but this spicy sauce was so good that I kept eating rice with it.

That red sauce really gets the appetite going! Put on the gloves, squeeze the crab out and set it on the rice, and here's the rice thief (밥도둑, a dish so good you keep eating rice)!! This is the rice thief. I heard it was a new Yuryang-dong place in Cheonan and went, and it was better than expected ^_^ After a full table I was so stuffed that on the way out we joked about whether we should climb Taejosan again.

Soy shrimp, one per person

The set includes soy-marinated shrimp, one per person~ The shrimp is mild with a lovely soy flavor ^_^ It had been a while since I'd bought soy crab out, and being able to enjoy both it and the spicy one as a set without choosing was great.

Pot rice with nurungji, parking and service

Everyone gets their own pot rice, so you can finish with nurungji (scorched rice) too. After the soy crab and then the spicy crab, sipping the nurungji water wipes out the heat and makes it just right.

There's plenty of parking in front of the building, so no worries there. The staff were all kind, so it was a pleasant meal out, a perfect stop after flower-viewing.

How much is the crab set at Huni Gejang?

The crab set at Huni Gejang is ₩25,000 per person. Good value, right?? The crab is domestic from Yeonpyeong Island too~ >_< I'll have to go eat again, totally great!!!