Our first meal at Jeonju Sikdang: stir-fry pork, stir-fty squid, sundubu, and mackerel (3 people) |
All exchange students should visit this Korean food place at least once during their time at Korea University.
Why?
Because:
- It's cheap (5,000 - 6,000₩)
- You get to taste homdemade-style Korean food
- The food is delicious
- The ajumma owner loves foreigners
- Unlimited banchan (side dishes) and mixed purple rice (tastes better than white!)
If you go alone, just order one dish and it will come with free mixed rice, a set of 5+ different banchans, and water. So you don't have to worry about eating just 2 things for one meal. You will leave the place stuffed since the ajumma will come over to offer to refill your banchan - especially the egg rolls and pajeon.
Go as a group, say 4 (as I typically do), and you'll have a bargain right there. You can pick 4 different dishes and perhaps get a dish or 2 more banchans for free. I highly recommend going as a group since you can sample more dishes.
We loved her chicken stew so much that we ordered the huge pan version once (25,000₩) |
Satisfying meal was satisfying |
The place also does doenjang jjigae, kimchi jjigae, sundubu, 2 types of kalkuksu, 2 types of fish stews, spicy squid stir-fry, and a few other traditional Korean dishes.
Unfortunately the place doesn't have an English menu, so I recommend learning how to read Korean before you go or go with someone who knows. The ajumma doesn't knoew English either, but is very kind regardless.
Directions to the place could be found here along with an image. The best way I could describe it is from the media building, turn left and walk down the street till you reach an intersection, cross the roads till you reach the side with 'Big Mart' (빅마트 on the map) and 59Pizza. Walk down the left alleyway next to Big Mart and you'll see a big yellow sign with black Korean characters saying '전주식당'.
Her free pajeon (kimchi pancake) and egg rolls are the best! |
And during our last visit when we ordered 2x pork stiry-fry's, 1x chicken stew, and a mackerel, she gave us a stone bowl of chicken soup for free! (இ﹏இ`。)♥♥♥
The free chicken soup/stew thing on the left. Tasted soooo good! |
All of the food looks so good! >.<
ReplyDeleteWow!!!!!!! I will most definitely try this place out!!!! Thanks for the informative post!!!
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