Guro Korean restaurant for a jokbal trio: The Jokbal

Where should I park?

The Jokbal Sindorim Main Branch is on the first floor of the Sindorim 3rd Purugio Apartment shopping arcade. You can use the Purugio Apartment underground parking lot, and diners receive two hours of parking support.

Evening waits and visit tips

The Jokbal is quite a well-known jokbal (braised pig's trotters) spot in Sindorim, so there may be a wait at dinner. You can make a Naver reservation, so I recommend booking if you're visiting in the evening or on the weekend!

Ordering a jokbal, spicy jokbal, and bossam combo

They say this is the country's first hotel-style jokbal specialty restaurant, with a former Chosun Hotel chef reinterpreting the dish as hotel cuisine. The Jokbal has all kinds of dishes you'd expect from a jokbal restaurant: front leg, hind leg, half-and-half jokbal, cold jokbal salad, charcoal-grilled spicy jokbal, bossam (boiled pork wraps), and more. We were absolutely starving... ^^ so we went for the three-item combo 👊🏻

• Choose-your-own 3-item combo ₩51,000
• Rice balls ₩3,000

What are the seating and complimentary sides like?

The seating is efficiently laid out inside. It looked like there were about eight tables for four!! We visited around 7 p.m. on Sunday, and two tables for four were still open, so we could sit down right away.

The complimentary sides are wrap vegetables, kimchi, garlic chives, radish kimchi, and soybean sprout soup. The aged radish kimchi they make in-house and the sweet kimchi generously coated in red pepper flakes were especially delicious—I would buy them immediately if they sold them... They season and make everything themselves, and the balance is just so good ㅠㅠ

Cold jokbal salad also comes as a complimentary dish. I usually dislike it because of the mustard aroma, but the mustard wasn't overpowering here and blended in so well—it was really delicious 🥺

How generous is the three-item combo?

The three-item combo: jokbal, bossam, and spicy jokbal 🔥 The long-awaited combo finally arrived!! Combos like this are usually skimpy, but I loved that every portion was generous 🥺

The jokbal has delightfully chewy skin, while the meat is tender and soft. If you enjoy jokbal's signature collagen texture, this style should satisfy you—and it was completely my style 👍🏻

The spicy jokbal is close to a sweet-spicy sauce with a smoky char. It is grilled directly over flame, so a subtle smokiness comes through alongside the sauce's sweetness 🔥 Its heat is about Shin Ramyun level, nicely spicy, and the rice cakes and onions make it even better ㅠ_ㅠ My boyfriend is obsessed with rice cakes, so it would be nice if extra rice cakes were available as an add-on haha. (Owner, are you listening,,,?)

Lastly, the bossam is lighter than the jokbal and spicy jokbal, making it great for alternating among all three. Mine had cooled down a little by the time it arrived, but meat is always delicious, so it was okay..!! It is an amazing combination with saeujeot (salted fermented shrimp) and the kimchi side dish. As I said earlier, the kimchi is seriously good, so wrapping it with bossam is an insane match 🤤

Rice balls and jokbal together

Rice balls, ₩3,000. These rice balls are made with Korean rice, sesame oil, seaweed, and furikake!! There was a little too much seaweed powder for my taste, so they were slightly salty on their own, but the seasoning was perfect with jokbal 🤤 Next time, I'll remove some of the seaweed powder first.

You can tell at a glance how bouncy the jokbal is,,,!! Tender fat and lean meat full of herbal aroma... so delicious ㅠㅠㅠ And there was so much that eating it was a challenge, yet I just kept reaching for more ;; (from someone with two months until her wedding photos)

The side dishes pair so well with the jokbal that I made tons of wraps too haha. I wish they would sell the kimchi separately, like Paldang Jokbal's green onion kimchi...🥺 (I always buy the green onion kimchi whenever I go to Paldang Jokbal.) If they sold it, I would be first in line to buy it!!

Receipt review event

They are also running a receipt review event! You can receive spicy soft tofu stew OR small tray makguksu (buckwheat noodles), plus a tasting portion of cold jokbal, on the house. Jokbal and makguksu belong together, so I recommend writing a review and claiming the freebie haha.

From dates to group gatherings

Jokbal is the kind of food everyone enjoys regardless of age or gender, so this seems like a great place for anything from dates to family gatherings and work dinners. It is even better because the three-item combo lets you taste several things at once!! If you're looking for great jokbal in Sindorim, I recommend The Jokbal Sindorim Main Branch 👍🏻

• A combo menu lets you try jokbal, spicy jokbal, and bossam all at once
• The house-made kimchi is especially delicious
• You can receive makguksu through the receipt review event
• No drawbacks
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