Bucheon Korean restaurant for a borigulbi set meal: Gim Myeongju

This is a great Korean set-meal restaurant near Kkachiwool Station that has even been featured on TV. It says the borigulbi set meal was introduced on Live Today.

A spacious Korean set-meal restaurant near Kkachiwool Station

It is within a 10-minute walk of Kkachiwool Station. There is a huge parking area on the first floor of the restaurant! Hours are 10:30 AM to 9 PM every day.

The interior is so spacious, right?!?! That makes it a great place for group get-togethers or parents' gatherings. It is especially perfect for bringing your parents or for a formal meeting between families.

Side dishes for sale by the entrance and the self-serve corner

Near the entrance, there were old-fashioned snacks like tofu crackers, and side dishes were also sold for ₩5,000 a pack!! There were cheonggukjang (fermented soybean stew), perilla-leaf side dishes, dried radish greens, and more. For the cheonggukjang, they told me it came with only seasoned beans, so I should chop up kimchi and radish to add in.

There was a self-serve corner where you could bring back unlimited amounts of every side dish. I liked it even more because it said the side dishes are made and used up on the same day.

Radish kimchi, scallions, seasoned radish, seasoned perilla leaves, fresh kimchi, fried eggplant, seasoned potatoes, and so on!!! You can also get unlimited rice, so if you visit when you are hungry, you will really be able to eat your fill~~

Menu items available to order from one serving

This is the menu at Gim Myeongju Tteuranchae Bapsang Bucheon Main Branch. The prices are listed per person, so people eating alone can visit too!!

They also have à la carte dishes including borigulbi (dried and aged yellow corvina), soy-marinated crab, seasoned cockles, grilled mackerel, and charcoal-grilled pork. The basic Tteuranchae Bapsang table setting is ₩13,000 per person!

One-serving borigulbi set meal spread

I ordered the ₩31,000 borigulbi set meal!!! Even when you order just one serving, they thoughtfully bring out all these many side dishes. Every side dish was seasoned just right and went wonderfully with rice~~

I filmed the side dishes in a video.

I decided to order it because it said the Yeonggwang gulbi was salted with sun-dried salt and steamed with turmeric with great care. Plus, it was a menu item featured on TV, so my choice was immediate...!

First of all, I loved that the gulbi was so big.. hahaha It was nice to have gulbi again after such a long time, too. I also liked that it did not have any fishy taste!

Borigulbi with green-tea rice

You know how to eat borigulbi by soaking rice in bubbly green tea and placing the fish on top, right?!?! It is well known that they are eaten together because the green tea cuts through the oil from the borigulbi.

The water for the stone-pot rice comes separately. But perhaps because the stone pot was so hot, it immediately bubbled away, which was so fascinating!! I visited on a weekday afternoon, and there were really a lot of older diners. I can see why. It is a wonderful Korean restaurant.

Especially delicious side dishes and cheonggukjang

My favorite side dish was the seasoned perilla leaves. I usually think perilla leaves are tough, but perhaps because they were seasoned and prepared so well, they were incredibly tender and nicely salty. Eating them with the green-tea rice, the rice just went down so easily. It felt like a delicious side dish carefully made by a grandmother who is an amazing cook herself! !??!?

Above all, I was surprised that the cheonggukjang was very nutty, slightly spicy, and had such a refreshing broth. Even I, someone who does not usually enjoy cheonggukjang, could eat this one deliciously. The moment I tasted it, I had to acknowledge this as a great Korean restaurant..

Soaking the rice in green tea made it feel a little cleaner and pleasantly bitter. It was actually even more delicious.. And the fried eggplant was tasty even once it had cooled. Even cold, the outside was crispy, the inside moist, and the seasoning had that wonderful sweet-and-salty balance.

The japchae (stir-fried glass noodles) was so chewy that I wanted to bring back more, but I was too full to eat it...!! sob sob I really need to come here when I am starving and enjoy as much as I can...!!! The side dishes are clean and so neatly prepared.

Eating borigulbi felt nutritious, and I was happy because it had been a while since I had enjoyed such a delicious Korean set meal!

At the end, I soaked the rice and ate it almost like nurungji (scorched rice), and it felt so refreshing...! A filling meal with delicious, wholesome side dishes!!!!