Icheon Korean BBQ for families: galbitang at Neul Gogi Jip

I found Neul Gogi Jip Icheon Main Branch (늘고기집 이천본점), an Icheon favorite near Yeoju Premium Outlets, while looking for somewhere to eat with our baby! 🐷

A Korean BBQ restaurant near Yeoju Premium Outlets and Termeden for babies

Neul Gogi Jip is an Icheon favorite on the way to Yeoju Premium Outlets. Neul Gogi Jip Icheon Main Branch is said to be run by Kim Gyeong-rim, a master of Korean cuisine who received the grand prize from the Speaker of Korea’s National Assembly. It is just 10 minutes from Termeden, making it such a great Icheon Korean BBQ spot to visit with a baby.

For a Korean BBQ restaurant, Neul Gogi Jip Icheon Main Branch was so spacious and clean. There were plenty of high chairs, so it was really great for bringing a baby, and lots of people were there with their parents too. There are private rooms as well, perfect for gatherings!

Neul Gogi Jip Icheon Main Branch menu and our order

For our baby, we ordered the lunch-special traditional galbitang (beef short-rib soup), two servings of fresh pork belly, and one hwangmi pot rice.

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A self-service bar loaded with wrap vegetables and side dishes

The Neul Gogi Jip self-service bar had ssam vegetables (leaves for wrapping grilled meat) and fresh vegetable geotjeori salad. There was such a huge variety of wrap vegetables—absolute happiness for a ssam lover 🍀 Even the water at this Icheon Korean BBQ restaurant was lightly alkaline.

Maybe because it is a Korean BBQ restaurant run by a master of Korean cuisine, but the side dishes were seriously insane.. The basic spread included seasoned raw crab, seasoned eggplant, crispy fried tofu, seasoned peppers, kabocha squash salad, lotus-root salad, japchae (stir-fried glass noodles), pickled onions, pickled garlic scapes, and jellyfish cold salad. I can say without hesitation that not one side dish was bad.... Everything was ridiculously delicious. This was not just a Korean BBQ restaurant—the side dishes were at the quality of a full Korean set-meal restaurant. The squash salad and lotus-root salad were amazing too, so different from elsewhere. I could easily finish a whole bowl of rice with these side dishes alone..;;

Hwangmi pot rice and children’s tableware

Neul Gogi Jip’s hwangmi pot rice (₩3,000). Hwangmi is rice made by combining the strengths of white and brown rice, so it is said to be soft like white rice while retaining brown rice’s nutrition! A hot pot of rice with the seasoned eggplant, seasoned raw crab, and geotjeori that came as side dishes? I could polish off a bowl in no timeㅠ Neul Gogi Jip’s side dishes were seriously, seriously delicious... 🤤

Children’s tableware was available, which made feeding our baby so easy.

Lunch-special traditional galbitang we shared with our baby

Neul Gogi Jip Icheon Main Branch’s lunch-special traditional galbitang (₩18,000) comes with a bowl of rice cooked with hyangmi rice. Lots of people ordered meat, but lots of people also ordered the lunch-special galbitang. The soup was not overly seasoned and the meat was so tender that it was easy for our one-year-old to eat. Our baby happily ate the galbitang meat and half a bowl of rice. There were around four ribs and the portion was so generous that one bowl was more than enough for Mom and baby to share!

Charcoal-grilled fresh pork belly cooked by the staff

My husband and I have one picky rule at Korean BBQ restaurants: meat absolutely has to be grilled over charcoal, haha. You can grill it over electric heat or gas at home, but at a restaurant it has to be charcoal for that proper flavor!

Neul Gogi Jip’s Neul fresh pork belly, 180 g (₩19,000). This definitely was not pork belly with too much fat—the fat-to-lean ratio was practically perfect. The cuts were thick too, and the burst of juices was no joke.. >_> The staff cooked all the meat for us, so I could simply eat while looking after our baby. Most guests at Neul Gogi Jip seemed to be visiting with babies or parents. We were so pleased with absolutely everything, from the side dishes to the meat, that my husband said we should come back next time with his parents.

They also sell the hwangmi rice, fried seaweed-and-grain chips, and yellow-crab soy sauce used at the restaurant. + For the upcoming Chuseok holiday, LA galbi (LA-cut beef short ribs), 1.5 kg / eight servings, were on sale as a Chuseok gift for ₩150,000 🎁 After all, meat gifts are the best for the holidays, right? Neul Gogi Jip is a truly great Icheon restaurant to visit with parents and a baby 👍🏻

Recommended for

• Those looking for a good place to eat with a baby near Icheon Termeden
• Those looking for an Icheon restaurant on the way to Yeoju Premium Outlets
• Those looking for an Icheon Korean BBQ restaurant with the feel of a Korean set meal to take their parents to