16.212 Hallasan Set

Cycle 16 – Item 212

POST 5,691

5 (Tue) August 2025

Hallasan Set

3.0

at Jeju Deokgu

-Changgok, Sujeong, Seongnam, Gyeonggi, Republic of Korea-

with W and IZ

Jeju Deokgu is a Korean restaurant.  Specializes in grilled pork.  Franchise chain (but of course it is), currently with 10 locations (soon to be 1 million).

Located in Wirye Sunhwan-ro 4-gil plaza, in the space once occupied by Sami Banjeom (15.070 Jjajang Myeon + Free Rice).

Just 2 doors down from Cheonnyeon Galbi – our all-time go-to neighborhood restaurant for Korean BBQ – I felt a bit guilty about giving business to this upstart rival, which surely must be disrupting Cheonnyeon’s sales.  But the two places serve sufficiently different items, prepared in different ways, so not really much conflict beyond the pork.  And W insisted that the food is good.

The menu offers 6 cuts of pork: ogyeopsal (belly w skin), moksal (shoulder), ggeopdaegi (skin), hangjeongsal (jowl), gabeurisal (neck), and donmahawk (bone-in rib).  Other than the skin, all cuts are unmarinated.

Albap (2.5)
4 condiments, as helpfully explained below.
In case a customer is uncertain what to do with salt, for example.
Hallasan Set [starting top-right]: ogyeopsal (200g) + moksal (200g) + hangjeongsal (180g).
Sides are cooked alongside the meat, in the fat that that renders and flows down the sloped griddle.
Sundubu Doenjang Jjigae (3.0)

The food was fine.  Everything was clean, consistent, reasonably tasty, yet utterly unremarkable, exactly what to expect from a franchise chain where the food is prepared and packaged in factory and reheated and plated at the restaurant.  Nowhere near as good as Cheonnnyeon Galbi, even if comparing green apples to red apples.

(See RESTAURANTS IN KOREA)

(See GLOBAL FOOD GLOSSARY)

(See HANSIK)

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