Gilpost · Yeongju-si, Gaheung-dong
Sijeolhyang Samgyetang Baeksuk
시절향 삼계탕백숙 Sijeolhyang writes as the hanja for 'the fragrance of the season': a restorative-food house by the market in Yeongju built around wild neungi mushroom, where the herb broth comes with its glutinous rice served separately.
탕류(보신용) · Yeongju-si, Gaheung-dong
Data as of · Published ·
Sijeolhyang Samgyetang Baeksuk is a restorative-food restaurant built around the wild neungi mushroom, at 7 Kkotdongsan-ro 40beon-gil in Gaheung-dong — one or two minutes by car from Yeongju station, eight on foot, beside the Sinyeongju market. Wild neungi and a broth built on a ten-herb tonic are what the place stakes itself on, and the dish almost everyone orders is the herbal neungi samgyetang at ₩15,000–17,000. Two abalone on top makes it ₩19,000; a whole duck simmered with the mushroom is ₩80,000, and five writers pass on the instruction to book an hour ahead for the duck and the seafood pots, which need long cooking. The rice is not stuffed into the bird but served separately, cooked in the herb broth, and several writers rate it the best thing here. You take your shoes off at the door, and there are rooms with both chairs and floor seating, so groups come: one post lands on a day with a booking for forty. Open ten in the morning until ten at night. The fifteen posts we read run from May 2025 to September 2026.
The basics
| Address | 경상북도 영주시 꽃동산로40번길 7 (가흥동) 7 Kkotdongsan-ro 40beon-gil, Yeongju-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do |
|---|---|
| Phone | 054-635-6334 |
| Typical spend | ₩2,000 – ₩80,000 |
| Floor area | 38 m² |
| Status | In business |
4 posts say it is walkable from the station.
When it opens
Of 13 posts: 8 wrote Daily 10:00–22:00, 3 wrote 10:00–22:00.
| Open | Daily | 10:00–21:00 2 of 13 posts last seen 2026-09 |
|---|---|---|
| Open | 10:00–22:00 3 of 13 posts last seen 2026-05 | |
| Open | Daily | 10:00–22:00 8 of 13 posts last seen 2026-05 |
| Break | 15:00–17:00 3 of 3 posts last seen 2026-05 | |
| Last order | 20:00 2 of 9 posts last seen 2026-09 | |
| Last order | 21:00 5 of 9 posts last seen 2026-05 | |
| Last order | 21:50 2 of 9 posts last seen 2025-06 |
The values differ, but the periods they were written in do not overlap. This looks like a change over time rather than a disagreement, and the top row is the most recently reported. We did not confirm it with the restaurant.
What sets it apart
- You take your shoes off at the door — three writers say so. The seating mixes chairs and floor mats, and there are separate rooms: eleven writers mention them, two note that the rooms come both ways so older relatives are comfortable, and one counts three of them. One counted the tables: six for four in the main room, four more for four in the group room, three for four in the floor-seated room. Eleven call the place roomy and none calls it cramped. Groups really do come: the writer who arrived on a day with a booking for forty found the main room quiet as a result and counted herself lucky, and reports being told that hiking clubs arrive after climbing Sobaeksan. One writer could not photograph the rooms because they were full.
- The kitchen is open to the room — six writers mention it and all of them turn it into a point about hygiene. It sits by the entrance and is kept clean; you can see it from your table and eat easy; the state of it earned their trust before they had ordered. One writer asked permission and photographed it: near the end of her meal, with the room empty, she found it genuinely impressive — brightly lit and orderly, the cooks in gloves and caps — and was pleased to see the stock being made on the premises. Five writers call the place clean and none says otherwise. One noticed sacks of rice stacked by the entrance on the way out, and reports her mother judging it good rice. Note, though, that the open kitchen is one of the things the restaurant's own blog pushes hardest — what stands behind this entry is that six independent posts remain after those fourteen were removed.
- There are four things given away here, and the notices are up on the wall. ① A free soft drink for a Naver review — six writers mention it, one describing the notice in the room: write the review, save the place and set an alert, and the drink is yours. ② Free wild-neungi dumplings for booking through Naver, in two posts. ③ The same dumplings again for a loyalty coupon on a second-hand marketplace app, in the same two posts. ④ Order through the delivery app and the price matches the restaurant's, with free courier, in two posts. Nobody records actually receiving the dumplings — all four accounts copy a notice. Beyond that, four writers report that the Yeongju local-currency voucher is accepted, one adding that government support payments are too. Three note the government's "fair price" designation and a charitable-donation scheme the restaurant takes part in.
- Four writers place it close to Yeongju station. The two who give a time agree within a minute: two minutes by car and eight on foot, against one minute and eight. A third says only that the station is near enough to be convenient, and a fourth adds that the intercity bus terminal is close too. Three navigate by neighbours rather than numbers — near a well-known butcher's restaurant, near the Sinyeongju market, near the Gaheung-dong roundabout. Nobody says which bus, or from where. One writer reckons it suits anyone hunting for somewhere near the station, and reports it is well known among people working nearby and passing travellers; another recommends it to tourists looking for where the locals eat.
- Five writers pass on the instruction to book an hour ahead for the duck and the seafood pots, and give the reason: they need long simmering. Ring before you set out, one says, and you will not be waiting in the summer heat; another simply says call ahead for the baeksuk. Those who booked found the table already laid — set out in advance, in two accounts. The samgyetang needs no booking: those who walked in report it arriving in a few minutes. Two note that the rooms can be reserved. Two mention free dumplings for booking through Naver, and nobody records getting them. Four writers touch on waiting, and they differ: a queue in the hot-day season and a very busy Saturday lunch, against a quiet room after the lunch rush and another emptied by a group booking taken in the back.
- The sign does not carry the restaurant's name — two writers, independently, point this out. One went looking and could not find it: the place is called Sijeolhyang, she writes, and nowhere from the door to the sign does that word appear — only mushroom, herbal mushroom, mushroom samgyetang. That was June 2026. The other gets ahead of it, in May 2025: the sign says neungi samgyetang, but the business is called Sijeolhyang Samgyetang Baeksuk. So do not look for the name: two writers describe a yellow sign with the mushroom's name across it, one a yellow banner that catches the eye from outside, and one the line declaring it a specialist in duck and chicken neungi baeksuk. Two note that the menu is posted large on the door, so you never have to ask for one — handy, says one, when you want to add something.
- Both takeaway and delivery work — seven writers mention them. For takeaway: orderable through Naver, a notice on the door saying you may collect, and simply that collection is possible. For delivery, two apps are named, and two writers note that ordering through the main one costs the same as eating in, with free courier. One account confirms the delivery trade is real: the writer who found the dining room quiet because of a group booking in the back reports the delivery terminal going off continuously. And one writer had only ever had it delivered: this was her first visit in person, in September 2026. But nobody says which dishes travel — including whether the long-simmered duck and seafood pots do.
What 15 bloggers said
We read all 15 in full. The most common claims are “Roomy” (11) and “Would return” (8).
What they liked
Where they disagree
| Had to wait | yes 2 · no 2 |
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Things you can check on site
| Private room | 11 of 15 posts |
|---|---|
| Takes reservations | 9 of 15 posts |
| Takeout | 7 of 15 posts |
| Open kitchen | 6 of 15 posts |
| Review event | 6 of 15 posts |
| Floor seating | 5 of 15 posts |
| Local currency accepted | 4 of 15 posts |
| Reachable by transit | 4 of 15 posts |
| Coupon | 3 of 15 posts |
| Shoes off at the door | 3 of 15 posts |
| Origin labelling posted | 1 of 15 posts |
These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.
What people order
The most ordered dish is hanbang neungi samgyetang (한방 능이삼계탕) — 13 of 15 posts.
The prices here are what bloggers wrote down in their posts, and they may have changed since. Check Naver Place for the current menu and prices. This list is not a menu board — it counts what bloggers actually ordered and ate. Check on Naver Place
What to order
Sides, and what comes with it
Parking
14 posts say you can park. None say you cannot.
| Posts saying you can park | 14 of 15 posts |
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Parking is easy, and it is not the restaurant's. Fourteen writers discuss it and none failed to park. The figure "a hundred cars" appears in eight posts, and what those hundred spaces actually are varies. The two most precise name it: the Sinyeongju market public car park, right in front, very large; and the public car park in front, a hundred cars, coaches too. A third reports the hundred as something she was told. One writer is blunt: there is no car park of the restaurant's own, so you use the public one nearby. One post carries a price — ₩500 per half hour at the public lot, and, she adds, mention it on your way out and the owner will give you a validation ticket, so be sure to ask. Four others simply write "free", which may be that ticket described from the other end; we could not settle it. Even the side is disputed: twelve put the lot directly in front and one behind the building.
Who came, and with whom
| Family visit | 3 of 15 posts |
|---|---|
| Date | 3 of 15 posts |
| With a friend | 3 of 15 posts |
| Came with children | 1 of 15 posts |
Getting there
Naver Map has a full English mode — Settings → Language → English. In Korea it gives better walking and transit directions than Google Maps.
Getting inside
| Separate restrooms | yes 0 · no 1 (of 15 posts read) |
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Not one writer says which floor it is on, or whether there are steps to get in. The words "ground floor" do not appear once across the fifteen posts, and even the check-in widget's address line carries no floor. Four describe the outside — the yellow sign, the yellow banner, a doorway that smells of a good restaurant, a photograph taken walking over from the car park — and not one mentions a stair, a lip or a door. What we do have is that three writers take their shoes off at the entrance and five describe floor-seated rooms — and nobody says how high the step up to that floor is. One writer notes that the car park is close enough that rain is no trouble, which is about the distance to the door rather than the door itself.
Nobody writes about getting in with a wheelchair or a pushchair. The words wheelchair, pushchair, ramp, threshold and step do not appear once across the fifteen posts. An accessible parking bay appears in one header block, copied from the Naver listing, and that is about the car park rather than the entrance. This is not a statement that there is none; it is that we could not check. What we do know is that three writers take their shoes off going in — an entrance where you do usually means a raised floor, and nobody says whether there is a step. Five note that rooms come with chairs as well as floor mats, so there is somewhere to sit properly. Five recommend it for older relatives (one came with her grandparents; one recommends the soft meat to anyone with weak teeth) and one came with children. Two mention high chairs, both inside copied listings, so we have not counted them.
Whether the toilets are separate for men and women — one writer reports that the listing and the reality differ. The phrase appears in four posts, three of them inside a header block that also recites group bookings, takeaway, delivery, reservations, wifi, high chairs and parking: a copied Naver listing. But one writer went, photographed them, and wrote this: the map says separate men's and women's, and in fact they share one — please be warned (May 2025). We have counted the person who looked. Against that, one post describes clean, separate indoor toilets kept like a new building (October 2025) — written by the second-time visitor who disclosed coming with a tasting group. Whether it changed in those five months or one of them misread it, we cannot say; we record it so that you do not rely on the listing alone.
No one mentioned: Second floor · In a basement · Lift to the floor · Ramp at the door · Step at the entrance · Step-free access · Toilet inside · Accessible toilet. That is not the same as there being none — it means we could not confirm it. Worth calling ahead, and do tell us: we will put it here.
How to read these posts
- Posts disclosing payment2 of 15 posts
- Posts saying they paid themselves1 of 15 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way12 of 15 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 30 posts we gathered, 15 went up on a single day right after a TV spot and show no sign of a visit. They retell the broadcast, so we left them out of the counts.
We do not discard them. That a TV spot produced a burst of posts is itself something worth knowing about a place, and a star rating will not show it.
When the posts appeared
Month by month
| Month | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2025-05 | 1 |
| 2025-06 | 1 |
| 2025-09 | 2 |
| 2025-10 | 2 |
| 2026-03 | 1 |
| 2026-04 | 2 |
| 2026-05 | 4 |
| 2026-06 | 1 |
| 2026-09 | 1 |
What we do not know
- Fifteen of the thirty confirmed posts are excluded from the count — half of them. Fourteen come from one blog, blog.naver.com/isg1990, whose display name is the restaurant's own name with its Chinese characters attached. We read all fourteen and they share one template: a summary box, then parking for a hundred cars, then the open kitchen, then the seafood-and-duck pot, then the house-made side dishes, then a conclusion, then the practical details. Across all fourteen the words for "I", "I ordered" and "I ate" appear three or four times in total, only three carry a price, and not one says who was there or when. What they do carry is the phrase "a hundred cars" between one and six times each, and "your parents" between two and fourteen times. They explain the meaning of the restaurant's name and the owner's philosophy, and close by advising you to book an hour ahead. Several display Naver's paid-my-own-way receipt badge, and have no account of eating anything. We have taken all fourteen as the restaurant's own marketing. One more is excluded: a post that works through three mains and four side dishes in the form "the first thing I would recommend is…", never says what was ordered or what it cost, and gives a telephone number that differs from the one all fifteen remaining posts print. So the numbers on this page rest on fifteen posts, not twenty-nine. Fifteen people on fifteen blogs. That the restaurant wrote half of what was collected is also a reason to read the other half twice.
- The fifteen that remain carry marks too. One tags itself #sponsored (May 2026), and one states in the body that she came as part of a tasting group — and that this was her second visit, after liking it the first time (October 2025). Both disclosed it. One post says she paid her own way; the other twelve say nothing about money. But three different blogs end with the same six hashtags, character for character — local-favourite, easy-parking, samgyetang, baeksuk, neungi-baeksuk and the neighbourhood name (two in September 2025, one in September 2026). Two others share a different six-tag block, and one of those two is a post from the restaurant's own blog. Ten of the fifteen use the same phrase, "a place the locals go", in a title or body. This looks like commissioned writing. We have still not removed them from the count: all three say what they ordered, what it cost and how they ate it; one counted the seating table by table, and one wrote a paragraph reading the owner's face. What decides it is the record of eating, not the hashtags. But anyone reading the favourable numbers on this page should know how independent they may or may not be.
- The mushroom aroma divides people — and only one post says so. Fourteen writers praise it: fragrant, nutty, rising gently from the bowl. One records a table split down the middle: she loved the depth of it, while her husband found the smell too strong and did not like it (May 2026). She repeats the warning in her closing summary: it may not be for everyone, but try it. It is a single account, and the only place in these fifteen posts where anyone says the food might not suit you, so we keep it. That same writer is the one who calls the brown broth medicinal-looking. Against that, two describe a broth that is clear yet deep and one simply calls it a clear samgyetang, so "clear" and "brown" sit side by side — presumably the herb tonic colours it without making it heavy, though that is our reading rather than anyone's observation.
- The hours differ from post to post. All thirteen that give an opening time say ten in the morning. Eleven put closing at ten at night and two at nine — and those two are from May 2026 and September 2026, so not old posts. Last orders come out as 21:00 in five posts, 21:50 in two and 20:00 in two; the two that say 20:00 are the same two that close at nine. Whether there is an afternoon break is disputed too: three posts give one from three to five (two in October 2025, one in May 2026) while ten others print no gap. The three are neither the earliest nor the latest, so a change does not explain it. One writer says there is no regular closing day, and another that closures are announced on Naver in advance. If you are going in the afternoon, telephone first — an unexpected break is a wasted trip, and two writers have it shutting at nine.
Sources (15)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- [경북 영주] 영주맛집 해신탕 능이삼계탕 십전대보탕 능이백숙 능이.... 2026-09-12 · 가이닝세상
- 국내 기차여행 문경 영주 동해 뚜벅이로 맛집 카페 투어 2026-06-11 · 낭만부랑자 너굴미식회 · via Daum
- [경북 영주] 시절향삼계탕백숙집 2026-05-28 · 이모조모 · via Daum
- 영주 맛집 능이버섯이 들어간 시절향삼계탕백숙 2026-05-25 · jurny
- [영주] 시절향 삼계탕백숙 | 능이버섯 가득한 영주 보양식 복날 맛집 2026-05-19 · 맛있게 살아가는법
- [영주 맛집]시절향 삼계탕백숙ㅣ한방 능이 삼계탕 오리백숙 훈제오리 2026-05-12 · 효니의 맛집탐방기 · via Daum
- [영주맛집] 영주 삼계탕맛집 추천 '시절향삼계탕백숙' 2026-04-28 · ෆ 따거의 리뷰 ෆ · via Daum
- 영주맛집 능삼이능이삼계탕 시절향 삼계탕백숙 2026-04-26 · 일상이 여행이 되는 기록 · via Daum
- 영주 영주역 근처 삼계탕 백숙 현지인 맛집 시절향 삼계탕백숙 메뉴.... 2026-03-18 · 행복한 꿀동맘
- 영주 현지인 맛집 추천 능이의 깊은 맛이 살아있는 영주 시절향삼계.... 2025-10-24 · ♡ 반짝거리는 일상 ♡
- 영주삼계탕 영주현지인맛집 시절향 삼계탕백숙 솔직 후기 2025-10-23 · 노마드리아
- 주차가편리한 영주삼계탕 가흥동맛집 시절향능이삼계탕 2025-09-28 · 자유영혼을 꿈꾸는 사슴이
- 영주 삼계탕 맛집 [시절향삼계탕] 영주 현지인 맛집 능삼이능이삼계.... 2025-09-21 · 순간의 여정
- [영주 가흥동 맛집] 시절향 삼계탕 백숙｜단체 모임 많은 삼계탕 백.... 2025-06-04 · 비행기 모드
- [시절향삼계탕백숙] 영주현지인맛집 삼계탕 능이백숙 능이버섯 2025-05-31 · 먹짱짱의 하루 ꕤ*.ﾟ
Of 196 candidate posts we opened 41 and kept 15 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.