17.096 Oven Baked Spareribs 3 Ways: Salt + Seasoning + Texas

Cycle 17 – Item 96

Post 5,940

11 (Sat) April 2026

Oven Baked Spareribs 3 Ways: Salt + Seasoning + Texas

2.5

at Yukmi Jedang

-Paengseong, Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi, Republic of Korea-

with JW, CP et al.

Yukmi Jedang is a Korean restaurant.  Specializes in pork, grilled over live coals.  All you can eat for 19,900.  Part of a franchise chain (because of course it is), founded 2023, currently 70 locations.

Located 83 m from Hotel Joy.

Following my first visit to Pyeongtaek a couple months back (see generally 17.054 Beef & Broccoli), I’d been itching to return.  When JW told me that he’d scored baloney for me from the post commissary, which I’d failed to secure last time, I was on the next train (the trip was ridiculously easy: 15-min taxi to Suseo Station + 28-min train to Pyeongtaek Jije Station (didn’t have time to finish my beer) + 15-min taxi to The Ville – faster than I could get to most parts of Seoul).

Staying for just one night, same hotel as before.

Photos on the internet suggest that different locations offer slightly different variations of items, or maybe they rotate menus so that every visit is a bit different?

In addition to sides, the buffet also offers small snacks, such as ddeokbokki, fried chicken, etc.

JW arranged a dinner with his Pyeongtaek pals, all working in some capacity for the US military, including 3 graduates of SAHS (Seoul American High School) (the school on Yongsan Garrison before everyone moved down to Humphreys), and 1 mutual SIS graduate: CP (Class of 1990) (1 year above me), who didn’t remember me.  Anyway, we’d all grown up in Seoul, around the same time, so it was good to reminisce.  And they can drink.

Hard to believe that the restaurant – this specific location, which caters largely to base personnel, a lot big American boys with American appetites – stays in business.   My companions this evening, now civilians in their 50s, must’ve eaten at least 1 kg each.

The food was fine.  Though the ribs weren’t all that American.  But totally worth 19,900.

I was impressed with their Korean BBQ cuttting-grilling skills.

After dinner, we went out for more drinks – a lot more.

Parted ways a bit past midnight (2 hours earlier than last time).

On my way back to the hotel, dropped by My Corner for a chicken gyro to go.

Took it up to my room, ate it on the bed, crashed around 01:00.

Maybe not the booze, just too much food.

Sometime thereafter, I woke up abruptly, ran to the bathroom, and threw up in the toilet – can’t recall booze-induced vomiting in recent memory, probably not in decades.

Nonetheless, I had a blast.

They promised to take me on base for dinner next time.

(See RESTAURANTS IN KOREA)

(See GLOBAL FOOD GLOSSARY)

(See HANSIK)

(See BOOZE)

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