Jeonju Gyodong Seokgalbi/ 전주 교동 석갈비

In the Jeonju Hanok Village (traditional building village) you can find this fab restaurant selling Seok-Galbi (Stone cooked rib meat!). The food is many in number and delicious in flavour. Going to this part of Korea? You MUST eat here (for under 20,000pp!)

The thing around the lights is a kind of pillow which people hug during summer slumbers to keep themselves cool. I was told only men use this and that the Korean name translates to 'bamboo wife'.

This meat has been marinated for what must be a long time, because it is so delicious. It's cooked on a bed of onions, garlic and mushrooms, which soak up all the deliciousness too.

Oily noodles with vegetables -  Jabchae 잡채

Pumpkin - soft and sweet

Yumminess.

Quails eggs with pickled garlic and beef.

Soup and rice

Other sidedishes included:

- beetroot pickled radish
- lettuce and sauce for making a mini-meat sandwich
- salad
- kimchi (three kinds)
- raw garlic


I thought that the above was the whole meal , but a bowl of iced buckwheat noodles also arrived, complete with vegetables, sesame seeds and a hard boiled egg. These noodles are really chewy and as much for the texture as they are for the taste, at least for me anyway.

How to get there:

Hmm... a bit of a difficult one, ask around or use naver maps to locate it (just copy the Korean from the title if you can't type it yourself)

Gamsahapnida for reading,

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