Gueui pork belly restaurant: cheonggukjang stew and fried rice finish

I suddenly got a huge craving for pork belly, so I went to Sanggu's Sotttukkeong Samgyeopsal Gueui Branch near Gueui.

I'm a fan of cauldron-lid pork belly to begin with, and here you can grill minari (water dropwort) along with the meat, which made me even more excited. Spoiler: I came home stuffed to bursting haha.

Where is Sanggu's Sotttukkeong Samgyeopsal Gueui Branch, and what are the hours?

📍 Location: 444 Achasan-ro, 1st floor, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, South Korea ⏰ Hours: Daily 11:00 – 02:00 🚗 Parking: Not available

It's easy to reach from Gueui Station, so it seemed like a good spot for dinner meat too. Apparently a lot of people come here for drinking get-togethers or company dinners. The hours run pretty late, so it's also great for a meal with a drink.

Walking in, the cauldron lid was already set up on the table. Cauldron-lid pork belly always looks delicious right from the get-go...

Two servings of fresh Korean-raised pork belly, grilled by the staff

We ordered two servings of fresh Korean native pork belly along with cheonggukjang doenjang stew and rice. We also each got a Fanta and a 150cc draft beer. Once the pork belly came out, the staff grilled it for us directly. That was surprisingly nice.

No need to keep an eye on the grill yourself — just chat and wait, and they cook it perfectly for you! Watching the pork belly sizzle away on the cauldron lid, my hunger really kicked in haha.

Why the minari on the cauldron lid was the best bite

And what I liked most here was the minari. They grill it together with the pork belly, and the minari soaked in a bit of pork fat on the cauldron lid was genuinely delicious. Its distinctive aroma stayed intact, and eating it with the pork belly added a nutty richness that paired so well.

I really love eating minari grilled like this. That day I think I kept picking it up over and over haha. The fresh Korean native pork belly was grilled thick, golden and crisp on the outside, moist inside. Since staff grilled it for us, we didn't need to worry about the doneness, and they cut it into perfectly bite-sized pieces for easy eating.

A bite of pork belly, then grilled minari, then a spoonful of rice... you just can't resist that combo.

Cheonggukjang doenjang stew and the fried rice finish

And the cheonggukjang doenjang stew we ordered along the way! You know how having a doenjang stew on the side while eating meat just makes you feel taken care of. With that savory broth and rice, I kept going back and forth — pork belly, rice, more pork belly.

By this point we were already pretty full. But of course, the Korean way to finish is fried rice, isn't it... My stomach was completely full, yet the fried rice was a whole different story haha.

They fry it up with the leftover pork fat on the cauldron lid, so the nutty flavor really comes through and it was so good. Personally, I think ordering this fried rice was truly the right call.

That feeling of being full but still wanting to eat because it's so good... we ended up cleaning our plates completely. What we ordered that day was:

2 servings fresh Korean native pork belly 1 cheonggukjang doenjang stew 1 rice 1 Fanta 1 draft beer (150cc) 1 vegetables 1 fried rice

That was it.

Is this Gueui pork belly restaurant enough for two?

Eating as a pair, we really got completely full. It wasn't just meat — being able to grill minari and vegetables alongside it, and finishing with fried rice, made it feel like a proper full meal. Overall, I liked that staff grilled the meat for us, and I loved that we could grill minari together with it.

Above all, the food itself was just really delicious that day. If you're a fan of cauldron-lid pork belly, you'll probably be quite satisfied with the pork-and-minari combo. The minari in particular was so good it really stuck with me.

And the fried rice was so good that even after finishing everything, I thought, 'glad I came here.' If you're looking for a place to eat pork belly around Gueui, Sanggu's Sotttukkeong Samgyeopsal Gueui Branch is worth a try. If you especially like the combo of cauldron-lid pork belly with grilled minari, you might end up picking at the minari nonstop like I did haha. Next time I go, I'll definitely order the minari and fried rice again.