Dandae-ogeori chicken restaurant with spicy whelk salad: Jangjakgun
Jangjakgun Main Branch is a wood-fired nurungji (scorched rice) chicken and draft beer restaurant a 10-minute walk from Dandae-ogeori Station in Seongnam, Gyeonggi. Arriving at 6:30pm on a Sunday meant a 30-minute wait, then a half-and-half nurungji chicken for 26,000 won and golbaengi-muchim (spicy whelk salad) with thin noodles for 20,000 won, ordered by kiosk with a self-serve chicken radish bar. Because the chicken is roasted over wood rather than fried, it sits light even as late-night food, and the spicy whelk salad was the best part of the pairing.