[Food] Budae Jjigae @ Sinchon & Edae | Bossam!! (boiled pork)

Figured out a lot of people may not be able to read Korean so instead of focusing on the review of these Korean-named places, I’m putting the food names as the main title so people looking for such food can find this post 🙂

18 번지 부대찌개(18 Beonji Budae Jjigae) @ Sinchon

I mentioned one that budae jjigae is one of my favorite jjigaes out there, but i’ve been eating mostly the ‘cheap’ ones. (FYI: Budae Jjigae is kinda like army stew Korean style. Ingredients include SPAM, sausage, noodles, ramyun, ddeok – chopped rice cakes, tofu, vegetables, and in the restaurants we went to, macaronis… served with rice and side dishes). Finally we went to a restaurant that weekend after a study session!! It’s called 18 번지 부대찌개 and is very convenienly located in Sinchon. A quick google search showed that it’s a pretty popular place amongst Koreans and seemingly among celebrities too seeing the many signatures framed up. We went there by Lineatte’s recommendation!

Upon reaching the place there was this table that looked at us constnatly and we realized they were Singaporeans too LOl. But didn’t talk to them, just ate our food diligently.

For 7000won per person, we got a huge pot of Budae Jjigae goodness and unlimited refills of RAMYUN AND RICE. It’s heavenly. Although I didn’t refill cuz the portion they gave were wayyyyy more than enough. The owner (i think?) was really kind and told us to take as much as we can.

Multiple celebrity autographs!

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I didn’t make a fuss taking all sorts of pictures of the side dishes and all because i was REALLY REALLY HUNGRY, forgive meh LOL. I’m sure i’d return there though so i’ll just come back to add more pictures, but i do think the picture above should be convincing enough. It was sooooo delicious! Only bad part of it: the SPAM was very thinly chopped :< give us more SPAMMMMMMM

Adding a picture from another blogger, credits on the pic~

How to get to 18 번지 부대찌개: Walk out from Uplex exit in Sinchon station and cross the main street. Head straight in and keep a look out on your right, you’ll see the restaurant really soon. OR, head out from Exit 3 and walk in until you see the main street fork and turn right. It’s the same street you head down to go to my favorite soondubu and also Homilbat patbingsoo. Haha.

놀부 부대찌개 (Nolbu Budae Jjigae) @ Edae

shop interior

BUDAEEEEEE

This seems to be a pretty popular branch place too, the owner was really nice as well. I liked 18 better because of the taste and ddeok, as well as the unlimited rice/ramyun refills, but this one had better SPAM! It cost us 8,250won per person because we ordered the set that included orange juice and i THINK more stuff inside. But it’s not really necessary, the normal set is 7500won per person if I remember correctly.

How to get to 놀부 부대찌개: Head out from Ewha Womans University station from exit 3, walk straight down and head right at the first corner. This restaurant will be right around the corner.

Bossam!!

The next recommendation i’m going to make is for a Bossam place. I’m not stating the name in the title for now because it’s the ONLY Bossam i’ve tried LOL, but just wanna introduce this food to everyone since it’s kinda less heard of. It’s basically pork belly boiled in spices, and eaten the same way we eat all those unhealthy but delicious pork BBQ (Samgyeopsal). Wrap with vegetable, eat with garlic, seasoning and the other banchans. It’s super nice and a healthier alternative!!

Bossam~~~~~

It was super tasty and a much healthier alternative, and only for 6000won per person! ;D This place was at the back of our school , just across the road~ hidden gem i didn’t realize about~