Ansan butcher: 2kg pork galbi-jjim for ₩30,000, Morakmorak

Morakmorak Home & Cook in Seongpo-dong, Ansan: back at my old neighborhood butcher

Morakmorak Home & Cook (모락모락홈앤쿡) is a butcher shop on the B1 floor of Star Plaza in Seongpo-dong, Ansan. I had errands in Ansan, my old neighborhood, so while I was out I had a brunch lunch, had coffee with a friend at a café with a great vibe, and before heading home I dropped by the butcher I used to visit all the time when I lived here and bought a ton of meat!

It's a butcher at Star Plaza in Seongpo-dong, and the meat quality is really good and the prices are cheap! They also sell lots of ingredients that are great for making baby food, so it's a shop I've dropped into often since I started raising my child!

Morakmorak Home & Cook location, hours and parking

• Address: 513 Hwarang-ro, Sangnok-gu, Ansan, Gyeonggi, South Korea (Star Plaza, B1)
• Hours: 09:30–20:30
• Parking: free parking support at the Star Plaza lot

The Ansan butcher I visited is Morakmorak Home & Cook, a Seongpo-dong meat shop that's popular because you can buy good-quality meat at really low prices! It's on the B1 floor of Star Plaza, and of course they cover your parking fee! First, let me show you the kinds of meat and the prices in detail.

A butcher that slaughters its own meat: great beef and gomtang

Morakmorak Home & Cook slaughters its own meat, so the beef quality is good and the prices are very low. It's not a place with a huge range and bulk sales like a big-mart meat section. Above all, because it's a slaughtering butcher, the hanwoo gomtang (beef soup), bone broth and yukhoe (Korean beef tartare) are fresh and popular.

There are lots of meal kits too, but dogani-tang (beef knee-cartilage soup), seolleongtang (ox bone soup) and galbitang (short rib soup) sell out often, so many times you can't get them!! The hanwoo bone gomtang, which is wonderful as a baby-food ingredient, is 3 packs for ₩10,000, and there's a 3+1 event too!

Thin-sliced pork belly, brisket and beef belly at stock-up prices

Morakmorak Home & Cook sells pork by the cut, and the prices for daepae samgyeopsal (thin-sliced pork belly), chadolbaegi (beef brisket) and usamgyeop (beef belly) are really, truly kind! The meat is cheap, so whenever the fridge and freezer start looking empty, I go stock up on all sorts of things! Prices these days are worrying, but here I can buy meat, soups and stews without feeling the pinch, which I love.

Galbitang, seolleongtang, seugogomtang and samgyetang meal kits

Morakmorak Home & Cook sells galbitang, seolleongtang, seugogomtang (beef tendon soup) and samgyetang (ginseng chicken soup) as meal kits, and the samgyetang, simmered long in hanwoo gomtang broth, is on a 1+1 event. I often go for side dishes and meat for my daughter, and having these as meal kits is so convenient!

They taste good, the portions are big and they're really easy, so I buy them often. The broth has a depth that can't compare with frozen meal kit products! Samgyetang at 1+1 is a real bargain, right?!

Can you buy yukhoe and yuk-sashimi here too?

Morakmorak Home & Cook sells yukhoe and yuk-sashimi (raw beef slices) too. As I mentioned above, they slaughter on site, so the quality of the yukhoe and yuk-sashimi is really different! You have to try yukhoe and yukhoe sashimi with rich bone broth, haha.

Marinated meat picks: dakgalbi, Handdon jeyuk-bokkeum and pork galbi-jjim

The marinated meats at Morakmorak Home & Cook come in lots of varieties and they're cheap too, right?! I really love the marinated meat here! The prices are low, yet the galbi, galbi-jjim, spicy back ribs and dakgalbi (spicy stir-fried chicken) are all delicious!

I especially recommend the dakgalbi, the Handdon jeyuk-bokkeum (spicy stir-fried pork) and the pork galbi-jjim! Amazing value! The pork galbi-jjim here is something I buy 2kg of every time I come, haha. This time, of course, I bought it again, haha.

Free gomtang for a KakaoTalk friend-add review event

Morakmorak Home & Cook runs a review event too! I added them on KakaoTalk and got gomtang as a freebie, haha. Rich bone gomtang as a gift in literally 30 seconds, so do join in! I happily bought a bunch of meal kits and meat, and what was dinner that day?!?!

Dinner from 2kg of pork galbi-jjim for ₩30,000

Pork galbi-jjim, of course!! The pork galbi-jjim at Morakmorak Home & Cook is only ₩30,000 for 2kg, with a big portion and great taste. The meat quality is good, so it's super tender and soft with no gamey smell! You just boil it hard in a big pot, and since the seasoning is already done, it's so easy.

I had errands in Ansan after a long time and dropped by the Ansan butcher I used to visit, and even the friend I brought along bought a whole load. It's a place with amazing value! Go do some meat shopping^^