Suwon BBQ: 6 sauces and tortilla-wrapped prime rib, Jipbul Taebaek

Today I ate straw-fire grilled prime rib in Ingye-dong, Suwon!! I'm going to tell you about my visit to Jipbul Taebaek Suwon Ingye Branch (짚불태백 수원인계점). The meat quality was great✨ and I loved the atmosphere and all the sauce combinations, so you can look forward to this one!

Where is Jipbul Taebaek Suwon Ingye Branch, and where can you park?

Jipbul Taebaek Suwon Ingye Branch is at 27 Gwongwang-ro 196beon-gil, Paldal-gu, Suwon, Gyeonggi (1st floor, Unit 101, Ingye-dong). It's near Suwon City Hall Station, close to Nahyeseok-gil and the main food alley in Ingye-dong, so it's easy to find!! If you take public transit, it's an easy walk from the subway station.

✔️ Parking: nearby paid lots or street parking

💫 Parking tip: if you're driving, park at the nearby Gyeonggi Arts Center parking lot and walk about 5 minutes. That's an easy way to get here.

Will your clothes smell of BBQ smoke?

Ventilation at Jipbul Taebaek Suwon Ingye Branch is very good, and the meat arrives already seared over straw fire, so the restaurant didn't smell strongly of meat. At BBQ places you usually worry about smell and smoke, but I could eat in a clean, comfortable space! Good good.

After any BBQ restaurant I always run my clothes through the steamer (Styler), and this time there was less meat smell!! haha

Jipbul Taebaek menu and prices

On the straw-fire seared menu at Jipbul Taebaek Suwon Ingye Branch, raw prime rib (limited) is 300g for ₩35,000 and marinated prime rib is 300g for ₩32,000. Both can be ordered for 2 or more, and marinated prime rib meat is 170g for ₩23,000. (There's a reason prime rib is the main dish! Come for the prime rib.)

Side dishes at Jipbul Taebaek

• Beef cheonggukjang stew (fermented soybean stew) ₩7,000
• Taebaek kimchi stew ₩7,000
• Triple cheese steamed egg ₩7,000
• Buckwheat cold noodles in broth (mul naengmyeon) ₩7,000
• Buckwheat spicy cold noodles (bibim naengmyeon) ₩7,000
• Shiitake pot rice (for 2) ₩7,000

Banchan and the self-service side bar

✔️ When you sit down, Jipbul Taebaek Suwon Ingye Branch sets out neat, tidy side dishes (banchan). They're all sides that go perfectly with meat, so I really liked them! (I'm a banchan lover when I eat meat,, haha)

On top of that, if you run out, you can freely grab more from the self-bar without feeling awkward, which is so convenient. You do have to ask the staff for the japchae (glass noodle stir-fry)!!!

It's self-service!

Fresh or marinated prime rib: which should you order?

We ordered Jipbul Taebaek's signature, 2 servings of raw prime rib! (300g per serving / ₩35,000) A tip when reading the menu: the item listed as "prime rib" (우대갈비) is the sweet marinated galbi, so if you want the clean, nutty raw galbi, be sure to order "raw prime rib" (생우대갈비)!

The moment I saw the prime rib come out already seared over straw fire, I couldn't help exclaiming... The subtle smoky flavor of the straw fire is coated all over the meat, and the second it hit my mouth, the juices were amazing•••!!!! Crisp outside, moist inside, it truly melted in my mouth. Dipping it in the 6 sauces one by one, I experienced the magic of meat vanishing in an instant 🤤

The staff grilled and cut everything for us 👍🏻 so we ate comfortably :)

6 dipping sauces for the prime rib

What was especially great at Jipbul Taebaek Suwon Ingye Branch is that you get a whopping 6 sauces for dipping the meat! With wasabi, a house special sauce and more, every bite tasted new, and that was so much fun 😋

Prime rib wrapped in review-event tortillas

At Jipbul Taebaek Suwon Ingye Branch, if you join the receipt review event during your meal, they give you tortillas as a free extra 💚👍🏻 You really must join this one!

Lightly toast the tortilla on the grill, put a piece of well-cooked prime rib on it, add a little special sauce and wasabi, and wrap it up. It feels like Korean and Western food meeting, you know? It was the treat of treats 💚👍🏻

Add-on: 2 servings of straw-fire pork belly

It felt like a shame to leave after only prime rib, so we ordered 2 more servings of pork belly! 🐷 Jipbul Taebaek's pork belly is also seared over straw fire first, so the grease drains away and only the nutty flavor is left.

The crisp-outside, moist-inside texture was so good that even though I was full, I couldn't stop my chopsticks haha. Meat tastes best when you keep eating without a break, right? The pork and the prime rib here are both delicious....🤤🤤

Cold noodles to finish, one broth per person

You know cold noodles after meat aren't optional but a must, right? 😉 Finishing with icy cold noodles with slush floating in the broth washed away the grease left in my mouth, and the meal ended perfectly! The noodles were chewy and the broth sweet and tangy, so I enjoyed it happily down to the last bite.

✔️ We asked for one more broth besides the one that comes by default, so we had two broths haha. One per person!!

Would I go back to Jipbul Taebaek Suwon Ingye Branch?

If you're looking for a really tasty BBQ place on Nahyeseok-gil in Ingye-dong, Suwon, with a great atmosphere too, go to Jipbul Taebaek Suwon Ingye Branch! The prime rib with its deep straw-fire aroma is a given, and the varied sauce combinations and friendly service made me so happy that I plan to come back and bring my parents next time ❤️ Highly recommended for meat lovers!