Masan galbitang spot that debones ribs for kids: Gohyang Sogalbijjim

Where is Gohyang Sogalbijjim in Yangdeok-dong? Behind Top Mart

Gohyang Sogalbijjim Masan Yangdeok Branch is in Yangdeok-dong, Masanhoewon-gu, Changwon, between Woosung Apartment and Hanil Town. It's in the apartment shopping center right behind Top Mart.

On our way back from Geoje, I got a craving for sogalbijjim and we found Gohyang Sogalbijjim Masan Yangdeok Branch. Not hard to get to at all haha. If you're taking public transit, get off at Gyeongnam Bank Head Office stop and it's within 5 minutes on foot.

This is the kind of sogalbijjim that keeps regulars coming back — one bite and you keep thinking about it. It's aired on KBS Saengsaeng Jeongbotong and MBC Live Tonight, so it's a legit local favorite. Walking in with my heart pounding, drumroll please...

What a family of four ordered, and what it cost

Sogalbijjim for ₩10,900 in this era of high prices?? My husband and I got the sogalbijjim, and the kids got galbitang!!

I was curious about the hanwoo-handon tteokgalbi (Korean beef and pork short rib patties) too, but since we'd already ordered two galbitangs, we held back on the portion size haha. Also, every menu item is available for takeout starting from 2 servings.

Gohyang Sogalbijjim Masan Yangdeok Branch has 40 years of tradition and history — I wonder what kind of impression it'll leave haha. So excited.

The self-serve side dish bar and the dining room

For extra side dishes, you can use the self-serve bar — pickled onion and cucumber, white kimchi, diced radish kimchi, and stir-fried fish cake are all ready there.

Water is self-serve, and there's a variety of sodas, beer, and soju too. A good spot for a drink with coworkers after work, or a company dinner.

The restaurant is clean and spacious with lots of tables, so it seems like it could handle group bookings if you call ahead!! We came a bit early, between 4 and 5pm, so it wasn't peak time and we got to eat in a relaxed, cozy atmosphere haha.

Two servings of sogalbijjim, with the bones taken out for us

The basic side dishes were set out first.

Two servings of sogalbijjim arrived haha. Seeing that we had kids with us and worried the table might get messy, the owner had already deboned the ribs and cut them into bite-sized pieces for us! Thanks to that, not a drop of sauce splattered and we could dive straight into eating hahaha. Doenjang (soybean paste) came alongside it too. Quite a generous portion for ₩10,900.

How was the galbitang the kids ate?

A dish nobody dislikes — the two galbitangs came out last. They were bubbling and sizzling away, so they carefully placed them in the middle of the table.

The galbitang meat was also cut into easy-to-eat pieces, so there was no need to use scissors — we just let it cool for a moment and could feed the kids right away, making for a really convenient and delicious meal haha.

How spicy is the sogalbijjim? Can kids eat it?

The sogalbijjim at Gohyang Sogalbijjim Masan Yangdeok Branch has just the right amount of spice for adult tastes. For kids eating along, it might be a touch spicy — not too much, not too little, just right haha.

It said that adding beansprouts, seaweed flakes, meat, and sauce over rice and mixing it all up tastes great, so my husband got right to work haha. He ate so well that I gave him more of my rice too.

They gave us plenty of sauce, so mixing it into rice was genuinely amazing. This is the kind of food that fills you right up when you've got no appetite.

The kids polished off a whole bowl of galbitang each, saying it was delicious haha. Normally if the meat is even a little tough they won't eat it and just spit it out, but this time they were competing over who could eat more haha. Not tough at all — cooked well enough for kids to eat easily and it was delicious. I'd recommend Gohyang Sogalbijjim Masan Yangdeok Branch as a great restaurant in Masan haha.