Folding-door seats at a Suwon chicken restaurant: Haenggung Jangjak

A Suwon Chicken Street restaurant where you can really get that open-air night-market vibe!

It's Haenggung Jangjak Hanbang Tongdak, located right next to Hwaseong Haenggung ❤

This isn't the deep-fried old-school chicken you'd normally think of — it's a moist style of chicken slowly turned over an oak firewood flame. There's no way this could taste bad, right?!

And I had it topped with a huge pile of corn cheese... honestly it was so good I nearly fainted!

Especially on a cool evening like this, it's a perfect spot for that open-air feel, so it'd make a great dinner stop after a date or outing around Suwon's Haenggung-dong ❤

The visuals were amazing but the taste was seriously amazing too, so I ended up drinking way more than I meant to?!!

* They have group seating fully set up, so it's also great for gatherings

Where is Haenggung Jangjak Hanbang Tongdak, and where do you park?

Haenggung Jangjak Hanbang Tongdak sits right across from Suwon Chicken Street, right beside Hwaseong Haenggung, so it was easy to find.

It's right near the Hwaseong Haenggung parking lot too, so accessibility was great — a good spot for dinner after wandering around Haenggung-dong ❤ If you're driving, I'd recommend using the Hwaseong Haenggung public street parking. Just keep in mind there's no parking at the restaurant itself and no parking vouchers provided!

Tip: free luggage storage lounge next to Hwaseong Haenggung

Here's a great tip — if you're looking for free luggage storage near Hwaseong Haenggung, you can use the Haenggung Village Traveler's Lounge, and it just so happens to be right next door!! It's easy for travelers to use too, which made me want to recommend this Suwon restaurant even more.

In one corner of the restaurant you could watch the chickens roasting over the firewood — and honestly, chicken cooked like that can't possibly taste bad, right? Slowly roasted over an oak fire, it has a whole different charm compared to a typical fried chicken place.

Inside Haenggung Jangjak: folding-door seats downstairs, group tables upstairs

The place is spread over two floors, so it's much bigger than I expected.

The 1st floor folding doors were left open, so if you go this time of year you can really enjoy that open-air night-market feeling while you eat. I went around 5:30pm and was able to grab a prime seat right away 👍

This is the 2nd floor of Haenggung Jangjak Hanbang Tongdak. It's big enough to easily handle a group, and since the 2nd floor is separate, it seemed like it'd be fun to book it out for a gathering :)

The restroom is inside too, so that was convenient.

Choosing the menu: corn cheese chicken with extra sausage

Here's the menu at Haenggung Jangjak Hanbang Tongdak! The hanbang (herbal medicine) oak-fired chicken felt like the original signature dish, but the corn cheese, fire chicken, smoked BBQ, and Suwon king galbi chicken all looked delicious too, so I really agonized over it. In the end, the menu I picked was corn cheese + added sausage ❤

What does the corn cheese chicken taste like?

When the chicken I ordered came out, I was floored just by the visuals 😍👍 The whole chicken sits on a hot iron plate, piled high with corn cheese on top. There was also a generous drizzle of sauce with a chili-ketchup kind of vibe, plus the added sausage — it all looked incredibly good.

The cheese melted and stretched into long strings, and when I picked up a drumstick it was completely moist!!! You can eat the corn cheese on top of the chicken, or wrap it around the meat — either way, chicken and cheese is a combo that's hard to mess up.

The chicken meat looked tender just from looking at it ❤ Honestly, I'm personally not a big fan of fried whole chicken, but this oak-fired version was so full of moisture and genuinely delicious that I completely lost track of myself and just inhaled it!!!

Even though it's roasted for a long time, the meat wasn't dried out at all, and you could really taste the clean, savory flavor of the chicken itself! On top of that, the sweet, savory sauce made it hard to stop reaching for more.

The sticky rice inside the chicken and its crisp nurungji (scorched rice)

There's sticky rice tucked inside the chicken, and the pressed parts crisp up like nurungji (scorched rice) — so you get two textures in one!! It's great eaten together with the chicken, and since you get rice along with the chicken and not just the meat alone, it worked well as an actual dinner.

As time went on, more customers filled in, and since the food went so well with drinks, I ended up drinking a fair amount that day! A perfect little schedule: tour Hwaseong Haenggung, wander the Haenggung-dong alleys, enjoy some cafés, then finish the evening with that open-air feeling and chicken.

If you're looking for a Suwon Chicken Street spot and prefer oak-fired chicken over fried, come here 💘👍 You won't regret it!!! And you get that open-air night-market feeling in Suwon's Haenggung-dong as a bonus!

Visit info for Haenggung Jangjak Hanbang Tongdak

• Address: 경기 수원시 팔달구 행궁로 28 (28 Haenggung-ro, Paldal-gu, Suwon, Gyeonggi, South Korea)
• Hours: Daily 17:00–00:00 (next day)
• Group seating available
• Reservations available via Naver Reservation
• No on-site parking, use the Hwaseong Haenggung public street parking nearby